A combination of a web page and a Word document, a wiki is a tool that’s simple like email but powerful enough to reduce your cluttered inbox and busy meeting schedule. Wikipatterns will help you learn how to build a 21st-century tool for collaboration, whether your team is in the same office or split among offices around the world. Wikis can transform business collaboration, and you’ll learn the ins and outs of making the most of this enduring collaboration tool. This book answers questions like:
What is a wiki?
How does an organization’s wiki differ from Wikipedia?
How do I make a case for using a wiki?
What’s the best way to get started?
How do wikis change an organization’s culture?
How do wikis “fit” with other collaboration tools?
What are the patterns of use and behavior that positively and negatively affect the wiki?
How do I encourage participation and make the wiki “stick” as an idea and a tool?
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Wikipatterns.com is a toolbox of ideas and strategies for anyone looking to build a successful wiki. It’s also a wiki, which means you can help build the information based on your experiences!
Effective Project Management Using a Wiki - Next Week! - I' ll be in Europe in early September for WikiSym 2008 (Porto, Portugal - 8-10 September), but before I get to Porto I' ll be stopping in the UK to give a workshop in Brighton. Evening Gathering - 3rd September On 3rd September from 7-9PM, the Whuffie Club is holding an evening gathering at The Werks (Map). I' ll [...]
5 Effective Wiki Uses - my latest article, in Website Magazine - The August issue of Website Magazine is out, and it includes an article I wrote: 5 Effective Wiki Uses and How Companies Benefit From Them. Here' s a brief excerpt: A wiki can be especially useful for commonly needed information, like FAQ, guidelines, HR or purchasing policies. Editing permissions can be set so those responsible for [...]
Creating Mozart: Enterprise Wikis at Chevron Richmond - This is from guest author Camille Goksever. She is an amenable risk taker and an entrepreneur at heart. She has run the gamet from working for Fortune 500 companies to Start-Ups, and from owning her own restaurant in the San Francisco Bay Area to a wine exporting business in Istanbul, Turkey. Wikis were a central [...]
New BusinessWeek Site: “Digg” for Professionals? - Last week, I got a message from Maria Breza, BusinessWeek' s Marketing Director, inviting me to try Business Exchange. It' s a new site the magazine' s publishers are hoping will engage - and build - its audience by giving them the ability to read, save (bookmark a story someone else has already added), and add news items [...]
“Grow Your Wiki” Grows into Specialist Consultancy - Today, I' m taking the wraps off something I' ve been working on for a long time. Grow Your Wiki is growing - into a specialist consultancy focused on organizational wiki adoption. This is as much a launch of something new, as the continuation of something I' ve been doing for a long time. I built my first wiki in [...]
Wiki ROI #2: Tacit Knowledge is Key to Improving Efficiency - Organizations have an immense amount of extremely valuable knowledge that' s walking out the door every day. Every day! Why? There isn' t an easily accessible, easily update-able place to put it. That' s where a wiki can help, and it' s the subject of the latest article in my series on the Wikinomics Blog: A wiki is more participatory [...]
François Nonnenmacher Continues the Milk and Wikis Theme - Martin Menu commented on my milk-themed post to tell me that François Nonnenmacher is on the milk and wikis theme too, with a metaphor to compare web sites and wikis: Traditional web sites are like whole milk, they taste great but can be fatty. Wikis are like skimmed milk, they taste like water but contain all [...]
Europe Conference Coverage, .wiki, IntranetBlog.ru Interview - While I' ve been busy in Europe this past week, speaking at International Forum on Enterprise 2.0 (Varese, Italy) and The New Knowledge Forge (Porto, Portugal), and meeting to accept papers and set the program for WikiSym 2008, there' s been no shortage of excellent online coverage: Marco Frassoni wrote a summary of the talks in Varese, and [...]
Should There be a .wiki Top-Level Domain (TLD)? - ICANN, the Internet' s primary oversight agency, has voted to allow new top-level domains (TLDs). This could mean a massive expansion beyond the original .com, .net, and .org TLDs, and country specific TLDs like .co.uk, .ca, .pl, and .de, and that raises a timely question - should one of those new TLDs be .wiki? Building Greater Awareness It [...]
Mutual Mentoring is Essential to Enterprise 2.0 ROI - Pete Fields of Wachovia recently discussed his firm' s Enterprise 2.0 adoption efforts with Paul McDougall of InformationWeek. The company is growing use of wikis, blogs, social networking, and instant messaging, but it' s also making use of its most valuable long term asset - it' s people. The company is working to retain younger workers by directly [...]
In the beginning, we are building an encyclopedia for our field. While on that journey, someone gave me a copy of wikipatterns and my mind has been Blown! However, we do want that encyclopedia and FAQ format first
Accenture 123,000 employees with 54,000 wiki users
Deutsche Bank 270,000 employees (80,000 online) with 15,000 wiki users
IBM 387,000 employees with 100,000 wiki users
Smart companies are encouraging, rather than fighting, the heaving growth of massive online communities—many of which emerged from the fringes of the Web to attract tens of millions of participants overnight. Even ardent competitors are collaborating on path-breaking science initiatives that accelerate discovery in their industries. Indeed, as a growing number of firms see the benefits of mass collaboration, this new way of organizing will eventually displace the traditional corporate structures as the economy’s primary engine of wealth creation.
Billions of connected individuals can now actively participate in innovation, wealth creation, and social development in ways we once only dreamed of. And when these masses of people collaborate they can collectively advance the arts, culture, science, education, government, and the economy in surprising but ultimately profitable ways. Companies that engage with these exploding Web-enabled communities are already discovering the true dividends of collective capability and genius.
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Forget exchanging business cards with ac
Cogenz - Cogenz is a hosted social bookmarking service for companies wishing to harness the collective intelligence of their employees using social software in a simple and effective way.
Six Apart - Six Apart makes the best blogging tools on the market and offers personalized services and innovative advertising programs that enable bloggers to be more successful.
WIKINOMICS | HOME - In the last few years, traditional collaboration—in a meeting room, a conference call, even a convention center—has been superceded by collaborations on an astronomical scale.
Today, encyclopedias, jetliners, operating systems, mutual funds, and ma
IBM Lotus Social Software - IBM Lotus® Connections is social software for business that empowers you to be more innovative and helps you execute more quickly by using dynamic networks of coworkers, partners and customers.
A Complete List of the Many Forms of Web Marketing for 2008 - This document catalogs the many tools and tactics available for corporate web strategy in 2008. Even if your strategy or resource limitations restrict you from entering all spaces, awareness of the changes in our digital landscape are critical. This docum
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Enterprise security and control to segment users with different permissions and privileges
Manual and auto
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Socialtext Enterprise Wiki - A wiki is a group-editable website. Wikis are composed of web pages you can write on, enabling fast and easy collaboration. The word "wiki" comes from a Hawaiian word for "quick". Wikis were invented about 10 years ago by Socialtext advisor and friend War
Intégration de social map dans IBM lotus connections - enterprise 2.0 - Ce graphe permet de voir le réseau de chaque personne.Plus une personne est proche du centre et plus les communications sont fréquentes.
Cette visualisation permet en un clin d'oeil de pouvoir visualiser toutes les personnes avec qui ont est en conta
Les medias sociaux envahissent le top500 US - Petite étude universitaires (pdf) qui montre que les entreprises du top 500 US connaissent à 42% les annuaires sociaux, 36% le blogging, 31% la vidéo en ligne, 30% le podcasting et 16% les wikis.
