Thoughts on different collaboration tools

Thanks to Rick Colosimo, Managing Director, ThoughtStorm Strategic Capital LLC for this post in answer to a question on LinkedIn about how to engage team members in utilizing collaborative tools such as blogs, wikis, MS Sharepoint, etc.

"At the end of the day, a tool has to be useful for the intended
purpose. We too often see people thinking of all these tools as
interchangeable, but blogs are more of a one-to-many tool as compared
to wikis that are better at capturing widely held knowledge, which is
different from SharePoint, which is much better at organizing
document-focused work, e.g., word processing documents, spreadsheets,
and presentations, with collaboration more often in a supporting role."

In summary:

Blogs: one-to-many collaboration, information dissemination centrally managed
Wikis: many-to-many collaboration, capturing widely held knowledge, information dissemination with distributed management
Sharepoint: document-based work organization, information dissemination centrally managed