Online collaborative tools, wiki's, corral's, folders and e-learning rooms are all useful ways to share information across an organisation. But there are several tools that perhaps you haven't considered yet.

Twitter for example has a closed network application that only allows people in to your group. Of course - with responses limited to 140 characters or less per message, I can see this one not being useful for the larger discussions that tend to go on.

But perhaps the best tool for online collaboration is the not so humble blog and community discussion groups / forums. I'm sure most of you have seen a blog, well you have if you read this one :-) you may even use one for personal reasons. Where these online tools come into their own is the ability for people to respond to postings. Discussions and arguments can rage, although in the open forums, raging, flaming and being downright rude is not tolerated. But honest and open discussion can take place, and yes differences of opinion can be put forward and debated amongst the team.

The second beautiful thing about blogs is that you can subscribe to the feeds, so you can be notified (via email usually) about the latest posts.

And of course the most amazing thing about net based tools, is the lack of boundaries. Whilst it is important to ensure privacy amongst the posters (to prevent industrial espionage) - discussions can occur across the entire organisation, not just the office where you happen to be and holding fort.

So, if your team has trouble getting together for regular updates and meetings, why not consider adding a corporate research blog to your folder structure within Corral.