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June 11th, 2008 | by Klemen Stular |

Why? And why now?

Somebody needs to tell you why, and I volunteered… One day it seemed to us that it was time to end years of guerilla-style information sharing. No more information-origin and background hiding on the part of our gurus – publishing their bright ideas, views and technical hints on various other blog, wiki and forum sites. It’s time to tell who are they and show where they belong. To bring them all back home, to one single place.

NIL is launching its own Web 2.0. Nothing is more sad than launching something just because it sounds great. That’s why you might think we’re a bit late with this change. But the reason is that we want to do it in a proper way. We want it to be THE source for information.

We have both now. The belief in how powerful a tool the web can be when utilized properly AND people who are motivated to share it with you from their broad and deep experience. We’ve got it all now – we’ve got Web 2.0!

That’s why. And that’s why now.

What exactly are we doing?

Sometimes it seems that everything has been said already. No matter what the topic, it’s all there, on the Net. Nothing needs to be added. But then, when I need it, hmm, somehow I can’t seem to find it. Not in a form I like, at least. Not the way I like it. Hence, there’s plenty of room for another view, another perspective, more information.

It’s no secret that we’re rather Cisco influenced here. So I regularly use what they’re offering me in their technical corners on their web site. It’s good stuff. But many times it’s »different«, not completely applicable to my scenario – or, for whatever reason, not exactly what I was looking for. The beauty and the curse of what we deal with professionally is that there’s so many situations in which nobody (okay, maybe only a few) had a chance to create exactly the same incarnation before we did. But reading about many slightly different problems might help a lot. We’re offering some of those variations here. They’re proven in real life, real networks. And they’re used in serious business environments, where there’s no room for a »good enough« approach.

For starters, we’re feeding our Web 2.0 from information that has been exchanged among our experts internally and recorded in Tips & Tricks form. We’ve reorganized it in a different format and made it available so you can gain from it, too. Furthermore, we’ve moved some of our most widely accepted and frequently read web pages (IOShints) to our web (remember, bringing them all back home). And, last but not least, I have a promise and commitment from several senior consultants to provide you regularly with their ideas, concerns and views on several things. There’s just one rule for them when writing – not to go too far away from our mission. Not to write about what’s not (in one way or another) connected to communication technologies. If that’s where your heart or head is, too, then please be welcome in our community.