While many companies are cautiously waiting before integrating Enterprise 2.0 technologies with their most important content, guess who's already there? The CIA of all places. It's not quite the organization that comes to mind when I think  of Information Technology trailblazers. And I certainly didn't expect to learn about it on the Cranky Geeks podcast, but that's where I got an inkling of the news.

It seems that the agency has built a wiki ,called Intellipedia, for its DIN (director of national intelligence). It's purpose is to  improve communications within the CIA and disparate intelligence organizations. Intellipedia's components include aggregation; interlink blogs, Tag|Connect (similar to del.icio.us); Inteldocs (a document management system for file sharing community-wide); Gallery (similar to flickr); iVideo (similar to YouTube); Intelink Instant Messaging (IIM); and Really Simple Syndication (RSS). Intellipedia's creators have posted a briefing here.

What might be most interesting to Document and Content Management pros is that Intellipedia as a Wiki is available on three networks -- a top secret network, a secret network and a sensitive but unclassified network available to the intelligence community. That seems like a neat, and smart way of collaborating. If you'd like to watch an interview with its Intellipedia's evangelists, it's here.