I didn’t even know my friend Pete Shinbach had a blog of his own (called The Bach Door), but I wasn’t surprised to find good information as soon as I visited it. Pete points out that Wikipedia opened a wiki dedicated to Hurricane Ivan. Here, the community contributes information about the hurricane and provides links to additional information and resources. There’s a current status update, links to details about how different communities are preparing, a history of the storm, and details about Ivan’s impact, along with a wealth of links to relevant sites. It’s a perfect example of the power of collaborative communication, with interested parties contributing more content than a single authoritative source could hope to gather. I hope communicators take heed to figure out just where establishing a wiki could be an appropriate and useful element of an organization’s communication efforts.