What’s Your Pattern? – New video on growth of Wikipatterns.com
Just published What’s Your Pattern?, a retrospective on the growth of Wikipatterns.com over the past 10 months, and a call to action for wiki users to continue building it into the best possible source of ideas and strategies for growing wiki use. Jon and I decided to create this video as our project for ShipIt […]
Here’s how to help your wiki grow faster, and measure its success
The following is a guest post from Patrick Berry and Scott Jungling of CSU Chico. Third in a three part series this week: (read parts 1 and 2) Gaining Momentum As the first phase grew to a close, we had a bit of trouble finding groups for phase 2. It seemed that part of the […]
How does CSU Chico build demand for wiki use and guide users?
The following is a guest post from Patrick Berry and Scott Jungling of CSU Chico. Second in a three part series this week: (read part one) Our Approach: The 3 in 3 Method Our plan was simple: create three spaces every three months. Spaces would be granted to those who applied and interviewed for a […]
Supply and Demand: A wiki adoption story at CSU Chico
The following is a guest post from Patrick Berry and Scott Jungling of CSU Chico. First in a three part series this week: Axiom: People want what they cannot have. It was a familiar story: a new technology arrives on campus, everyone wants to take part, many sign-up, few actually do anything. We’d seen it […]
Enterprise 2.0: wikis, social networks, & the strength of weak ties
Andrew McAfee recently wrote a post called How to Hit the Enterprise 2.0 Bullseye that looks at how multiple tools like wikis, blogs, and social networks are useful to workers in complementary ways. He defines a bullseye and set of concentric cirles that represent the typical worker’s ties to others as strong, weak, potential, and […]
How a poor HR policy on Facebook at work can affect wiki use
In Facing up to Facebook (PDF), the UK Trades Union Congress offers some advice to HR staff regarding employee use of social networks at work: “Employees have a right to a personal life, and provided they do not breach reasonable conduct guidelines, employers should respect this…A responsible way to handle this is for employers to […]
Two arguments against wiki use (and how to respond to them)
Brian Solis writes about some of the resistance to blogging that he encounters from companies, and much of this applies to to wikis and enterprise 2.0 tools in general. For example, one questions he was asked is, “How would you recommend clients use blogging as part of their PR strategy? The easy answer is I […]
WikiSym 2007: “Wiki Patterns: What Works and What Doesn’t?”
Today, I’ll be joined by Anne Goldenberg, Ted Ernst, Mark Bernstein, François Beauregard, and Dirk Riehle on a panel called, “Wiki Patterns: What Works and What Doesn’t?” at WikiSym 2007. We’ll share & discuss the best ways people have found so far for stimulating collaboration in organizations and communities. Some of those ideas are documented […]
Stop splitting hairs and debating: You can’t win if you don’t play
Why do some people spend endless hours pondering the details and splitting hairs over whether using a wiki will provide any value to their organizations? Couldn’t that time be better spent actually using it, and finding out? In Social Media is About Sociology Not Technology, Brian Solis says: Almost daily I hear, “There are so […]
Wikipatterns.com on Robert Scoble’s kyte.tv channel
Robert Scoble stopped by Atlassian’s San Francisco office today, and just interviewed me about Wikipatterns.com for his kyte channel: watch the video. Robert interviewed me using a Nokia N95, and it immediately uploads the video to kyte: within seconds after recording the video, we were all gathered around my laptop watching it. Kyte is the […]
Managing Wikis in Business, Wiki Patterns as a sign of quality
Back in July, I encouraged readers to contribute to a survey on wiki use in business being conducted by Penny Edwards for her MBA dissertation at The Open University Business School. The results of that research are out now in Managing Wikis in Business, on Penny’s blog. The wiki where she has documented the research […]
Mike Cannon-Brookes on Organisational Wiki Adoption
Mike Cannon-Brookes, Atlassian’s co-Founder, recently presented on Organisational Wiki Adoption at WebDirections South 2007 in Sydney, Australia. The presentation is excellent on both content and design – in fact, Mike set a goal of no bullet points: “FYI I set myself the challenge of
Why the “one size fits all” mentality in IT must go away
When I visit wiki users in organizations, I often hear stories about how the wiki was brought in by someone who saw the value in using it, and began a grassroots movement to spread awareness and use of it. Not the orthodox way to bring a tool into an organization, because it often leaves IT […]
Business and IT must work together for success with Web 2.0
Dennis McDonald and Jeremiah Owyang write that to successfully use Web 2.0 tools, business and IT must work together. The kicker: this was written in January 2006. It’s an excellent post that I just stumbled on today and its points are so good that it’s just as true today as it was almost two years […]
Brian Solis: Companies need proactive, sincere conversationalists
Brian Solis writes about Apple’s handling of the negative reaction surrounding the iPhone price drop, and this quote about the importance of community evangelists stands out: “Aside from strategic PR and investor relations, companies also need a Guy Kawasaki-like community evangelist to engage in conversations and participate in all important forms of social media. It’s […]
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