I downloaded Wordpress 2.7.1 today at work with the intention of using it as a collaborative tool for my team to track development plan items for discussion. We have our own renegade web server with a LAMP stack installed, so it only took me about 5 minutes to put the whole thing together. Wordpress is so stinking simple to install as long as you have easy access to your database.

So by the end of the day, I had a running copy working on our production portal and had user accounts assigned to the 5 of my team members along with a welcome post to kick off the conversation. I’ll update you later as to the success of this experiment. I have a feeling it will go over pretty well since the team is pretty tech savvy and really strive to get more Web 2.0 tools into the company.

We are also toying around with the notion of building a wiki to store all of our documents and processes. TWiki and MediaWiki are the two that we’re working with at the moment. Are there any others that we should be considering? Since we’re a small group, just about any tool will be easy for us to install. I’m interested in your feedback, so let me know your results from testing both blogs and wikis in the enterprise.

Thanks to a quick-posting Rachel Baker (twitter.com/rachelbaker), I was alerted to an upcoming upgrade to Wordpress 2.7 that is being pushed to users of their blog site tonight at 5pm PST.  Unfortunately, the personally hosted version is not slated for availability for another month, the release candidate 1 is available for download now at http://wordpress.org/development/2008/12/wordpress-27-release-candidate-1/.

The upgrade took me only minutes to perform.  Try it out for yourself (offline first, of course):
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