My wiki would rather play shuffleboard.

ASU has outgrown its current blog and wiki service, the one we started as a beta back in February 2006. That’s close to age 65 in blog and wiki years.

Although many students and faculty members have used this service successfully over the past three years, we’re finding it hard to keep up with superior external services like Blogger, Twitter and Google Sites.

These newer services offer improved editing tools, more intuitive interfaces, customizable templates, enhanced multimedia features, upgraded commenting and collaboration features, better group blogging controls, and the ability to post to your blog from your mobile device.

So rather than spend money while continuing to fall farther behind, we’re considering retiring ASU’s blog and wiki service due to the small number of users and the existence of good, free alternatives like the ones listed above.

I’d like to hear your thoughts and notions about this possibility.

Would it inconvenience you if ASU discontinued this particular service?

How important is it for you to preserve the contents of your existing ASU blog or wiki? Would you be willing to migrate the content yourself into a new blog or wiki if we could show you how, or would you want ASU to do it for you?

How important is it to you that ASU provide blog and wiki services directly or would external services like Blogger or Google Sites be sufficient for your uses?

Please email me with your comments at uto@asu.edu or post them below.