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Managing Wikis in Business Survey
Fellow Social Media Today contributor Luis Suarez writes about a survey on wiki use in business being conducted by Penny Edwards of the Open University, UK. The survey aims to gather information from current business wiki users on how they use and manage it in different environments. From Penny: “Penny Edwards is working on a […]
Wiki Symposium at Queensland University of Technology
I’m in Brisbane, Australia today and tomorrow to visit Queensland University of Technology (QUT) and participate in their Wiki Symposium tomorrow. The symposium is organised around three themes — Learning and Teaching, Research, and Business Support — and is intended to bring QUT’s wiki community together to share examples, case studies, and ideas. I’ll give […]
How do you grow wiki adoption? – 11 July 2007, Sydney, Australia
Wikis are the future of enterprise collaboration, so improving adoption and effective use in your organization is key to realizing benefits like reduced email, fewer meetings and less time spent in meetings, and faster knowledge generation. Want to know more about how to achieve this? Atlassian invites you to a presentation on enterprise wiki adoption […]
Wikipatterns at AusWeb07
I’m in Coffs Harbour (in New South Wales, Australia) for AusWeb07, the Australasian World Wide Web Conference. In the afternoon poster session today, I’ll be talking about Wikipatterns.com and its role as a universal, community-built set of tools for wiki users. On the left is a small image of the poster accompanying my presentation. (click […]
Social Network Analysis of Wikipatterns.com
Wiki consultant James Matheson performed a social network analysis of Wikipatterns.com, and recently wrote about his findings. He looked at the relationship between contributors based on common page editing, and the relationship between pages themselves based on the volume of edits and number of editors. The report observed that the home page is frequently edited, […]
Web Content 2007, Enterprise 2.0 conference, Atlassian Boston User Conference
I’ll be in Chicago on Monday, presenting at Web Content 2007, then on to Boston for the Enterprise 2.0 conference where I’ll be presenting “Collective Intelligence: Monkeys or Memes?” with Jeffrey Walker, Atlassian’s President. On Thursday, June 21st, Atlassian is hosting a User Conference at MIT. If you’re in the area, I hope to see […]
Why Wiki is more productive than BlackBerry
Andrew McAfee wrote recently that his MBA students raised a concern about whether, “people who use the new tools heavily — who post frequently to an internal blog, edit the corporate wiki a lot, or trade heavily in the internal prediction market — will be perceived as not spending enough time on their ‘real’ jobs.” […]
Does simply using so called Enterprise 2.0 tools mean Enterprise 2.0 has succeeded?
Tom Mandel asks this question on the FASTForward Blog. I think that simply using the tools does not mean Enterprise 2.0 has succeeded. Enterprise 2.0 technology is the medium by which collaboration can succeed, but technology will not succeed for technology’s sake. Knowledge Management technology was the last major effort that tried to transform collaboration […]
Mickey Uses a Wiki
The June issue of Fast Company profiles Disney executive vice president of digital media Albert Cheng, and how a wiki is at the center of his 20 month old digital media department’s reinvention of TV distribution. The article discusses how the wiki started: His team didn’t ask permission to create the internal Web site, with […]
Video: Wikis in Plain English is an excellent wiki primer
Peter Caputa of WhizSpark and the PC4Media blog and Brady Forrest of O’Reilly Radar write about Lee and Sachi LeFever’s video Wikis in Plain English, which does an excellent job of explaining a wiki in comparison to email. The video uses the scenario of four friends who need to coordinate an event – in this […]
Introducing a Wiki and Growing Use Beyond Development Groups
On his blog Musings of a Software Development Manager, Ed Gibbs writes about his experience as a Wiki Champion in a software development group. He points out that Confluence was brought in, “at the urging of a motivated tech lead
Bienvenue RoCoCo!
I’m in Montreal for RoCoCo 2007, counterpart conference to the RecentChangesCamp held in Portland, Oregon back in February. Atlassian is a primary sponsor and I’ll be leading a session on Wikipatterns. Like RecentChangesCamp, RoCoCo uses the Open Space meeting style, where the conference schedule is agreed upon by participants the morning the conference starts. Why […]
8 Ways to use a wiki
Product documentation — collaboratively write it in-house, then let customers add to it as they use the product. Collaboratively write news releases — A great way to make sure that a news release has input from product managers, marketing staff, etc. and can be quickly updated as necessary before release. Knowledge base — Keep common […]
Chronicling the introduction of a wiki
Simon Mittag has written a blog post chronicling his work to introduce wiki in his organisation. This is a great first-person account for anyone who is in the process of starting a wiki (or just thinking about it) to read. In 4 Weeks Of Introducing A Wiki Into An Organisation Mittag starts by saying, “I […]
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