What Happened to Knowledge Management?
Euan Semple points out two articles that examine the state of knowledge management. In Whence goeth KM? Dave Snowden concludes that knowledge management is on its way out because it has changed so much since it first appeared in the early 1990s. It came to prominence at the same time that technology was beginning to […]
Running a Confluence pilot: some tips
Recently, I was meeting with one of our education customers about piloting Confluence, and during our conversation I shared some tips and suggestions from my own experience piloting Confluence in higher ed before coming to Atlassian. I thought I’d share some of them here: Early Adopter — It’s important to have someone who’s eager to […]
IBM ShortCuts Podcast – Cut #24: How to structure a wiki
In Episode #24 of IBM ShortCuts Podcast Luis Suarez, a fellow Social Media Collective member, gives his top 5 tips for structuring a successful wiki: Have a welcome page Make a shared calendar Put together a who’s who page of team members Choose three topics for discussion/collaboration Don’t forget to add a section for resources […]
Get your Wikipatterns button!
Now you can stylishly tell everyone about your favorite wiki resource – add a Wikipatterns button to your blog, website, or wiki! Buttons come in three sizes – Large: 120×80 pixels, Standard: 88×31 pixels, and Chicklet: 80×15 pixels. Displaying a button is a great way to let others know about Wikipatterns, and help them find […]
Larry Cannell of Collaboration Loop reviews Wikipatterns
Larry Cannell of Collaboration Loop writes about Wikipatterns, and makes some great points about the site’s role as a guide for the regular wiki user. He says: “In short, this is an incredible resource and goes a long way to bridge the gap that sits between IT departments and the business units they support…Do you […]
How much can Enterprise 2.0 change the way we work?
Joe McKendrick writes about this on the FASTForward blog, and points out that Andrew McAfee of Harvard and Tom Davenport of Babson are agreeing to disagree. The debate is over how so-called enterprise 2.0 technologies will impact the world’d workforce. Enterprise 2.0 enthusiasts like to discuss how the new technologies disrupt traditional business hierarchies. Davenport […]
Thinking about information as a steady stream of content
Stowe Boyd blogs about whether we’re faced with information overload, and that the answer depends on how you approach information — focus or flow. He makes the case that if you try to focus too much you’ll feel overloaded, but if you approach information as a constant stream you can quickly learn to ignore what’s […]
Building the right kind of wiki communities for success
Chris Taylor of Business 2.0 takes a look at why experiments like the LA Times Wikitorial, A Million Penguins book project, and Amazon’s Amapedia product review wiki haven’t become the major successes their creators had hoped they would be. (In Amapedia’s case, it’s only been around a short time, and may take more time to […]
Wikipatterns has a new look!
Wikipatterns has a new look! We just launched a new design for Wikipatterns with an organic theme that emphasizes growing your wiki. With the addition of the theme, the site is much less technical looking, and I’m hoping this makes it more inviting for non-technical users. Speaking of users and site activity, there are now […]
Dan Bricklin interviews Motorola’s Toby Redshaw on wiki use
Dan Bricklin, co-creator of VisiCalc (the spreadsheet software that’s credited with turning the personal computer into a serious business tool in the early 1980s), recently posted a podcast interview with Toby Redshaw of Motorola. The two discuss the growing use of wikis inside Motorola, and some great points emerge about the growth of wiki adoption […]
Lessons from Firefox: #7 – Shut up
This is the seventh in a seven-part series based on The Mozilla School of Management in which I’m applying Mozilla’s principles to wiki collaboration (parts 1,2,3,4,5,6 of the series). Shut up Getting the most out of people, and winning their loyalty, is sometimes just a matter of listening to them– very carefully and all the […]
Calling all social change projects: Present at NetSquared
If you’re working on an innovative project that uses social media technology to advance social change, then this is for you: In May 2007, 350 members of the NetSquared community are invited to the Cisco campus to participate in accelerating 20 great projects that utilize the technologies, tools and communities of the social web to […]
ZDNet Web 2.0 Explorer: Using patterns to grow wiki adoption
I just finished my guest blogging stint for ZDNet Web 2.0 Explorer with a post about how to encourage wiki adoption in your organization. The post discusses Wikipatterns and its role as a community-driven guide for successfully introducing any wiki into your organization. The tide change from traditional, heavy, expensive software to lightweight, inexpensive tools […]
Lessons from Firefox: #6 – Think globally
This is the sixth in a seven-part series based on The Mozilla School of Management in which I’m applying Mozilla’s principles to wiki collaboration (parts 1,2,3,4,5 of the series). Think globally There is a world of potential volunteers outside the United States, and in some cases the only incentive they need to pitch in is […]
Wiki goes to Oxford (Englsh Dictionary that is)
CNET reports: This word born on the Pacific Island of Hawaii finally got an entry into the latest edition of the online Oxford English Dictionary (OED) along with 287 other new words. More than a decade after Ward Cunningham created the first wiki, this short, catchy Hawaiian word is finally being recognized for its major […]
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