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WikiPatterns : a toolbox of ideas and strategies to build a successful wiki.

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Wikipatterns

Price: $15.50 USD

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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?

About wikipatterns.com

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!

Main Links

Official site: Wikinomics the book
Official blog: WikiPatterns
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Webinar Video: Improve Business Productivity Using Wikis - If you weren' t able to attend yesterday' s webinar on Using Wikis to Improve Productivity, or would like to see it again, here' s a video of the session. Jason Rothbart of GroupSwim and I hosted around 40 people, and fielded a number of great questions. Thanks to everyone who attended!

The Costly & Inefficient Procedure that Wikis can Improve - The complex trade of documents over email, especially among members of a team, is one of the most time-consuming, confusing, and error-prone processes in organizations today. Everybody has been part of this at some point, and the more people involved, the more chaotic it gets. People have to keep track of the rapid flow of emails [...]

WikiFest 2008 Presentation: Wiki Implementation within SAP AG, by Holger Junghanns - Wiki Implementation within SAP AG View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: 2.0 enterprise)

Wikis at Work - Defining Requirements in a New Way - This is from Jason Rothbart of GroupSwim. Be sure to check out their on-demand collaboration tool. It includes a wiki, groups, discussions, and file sharing, and will help you better organize and manage projects, streamline collaboration, and inform involve your team. - Stewart Projects of all kinds usually involve writing requirements or designs of some [...]

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 [...]

“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 [...]

5 Differences between Wikipedia & Enterprise Wikis - Enterprise wikis and Internet wikis (of which Wikipedia is an example) provide the same basic function - the ability to edit content through a web browser, but they differ in several significant ways: 1. Spaces Internet wikis often have all content housed in one place, so that any user can see the entirety of the site' s content [...]

New York Times: Is Barack Obama the first “Wiki-Candidate”? - In The Wiki-Way to the Nomination, New York Times writer Noam Cohen writes that the grassroots, bottom-up style of organization that Barack Obama' s campaign - and the candidate himself - have embraced may make him the first wiki-candidate . What sets him apart is his openness to contributions from those working outside the campaign organization. As [...]

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 [...]

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JudyAnn Lorenz

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

Doug Cornelius

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

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Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything

admin — Fri, 30 May 2008 12:29:40 +0000

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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.

Best Posts from Wikinomics blog

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Retailers on Facebook: fan pages versus user groups - I don' t have to go over all the reasons why social networks are becoming so important for marketers these days, as I believe most wikinomics readers have seen them before. However, my interest in how companies engage with Facebook in particular was piqued again when I read this eMarketer report about the social networking presence [...]

Obama’s web 2.0 strategy: from campaigning to governing, part 1 - Obama' s election win was a real beauty. It was a vindication of the American people (if I may so say), a shot in the arm for democracy, and it probably changed the world for the better over the course of one truly historic day. But as we all know, the tremendous goodwill and hope that [...]

The wisdom of crowds vs. uniquely qualified minds - The sub-title for wikinomics is how mass collaboration changes everything, which naturally creates the visual of an enormous amount of people working together towards a common end. In turn, it is hardly a surprise that if you look up wikinomics on Amazon, one the books it is most commonly purchased with is Surowiecki' s The Wisdom [...]

If the world could vote… - Can anyone see any blue in this map? See here for a mashup showing how the world stacks up for Obama and McCain. McCain has a slight edge in Albania (which, from what I understand, borders on the Adriatic. If you recognize that cultural reference, press one now). He also has a dominant lead (cough, [...]

The Problem with Knowledge Work Part II: You can’t manage what you can’t measure - In my last post, I talked about how collaboration creates a significant number of tasks that fall outside the sphere of regularly assigned work—things like providing feedback to others; reviewing documents and presentations; joining meetings, conversations, and online discussions; documenting best practices; and identifying new problems and solving them on an ad hoc basis. [...]

Wikinomics in Action: Brownbook.net gets prosumers invested for life - Reuben Donnelley created the first official yellow pages directory in 1886, and it' s been a pretty good business to be in ever since. Traditionally these directories have been printed by the local phone company, and they more or less had a natural monopoly supported by network effects - since that' s where all the potential customers [...]

18-year-old kid designs, manufactures, and sells product in 24 days - We' ve written before about Ponoko, the on-demand manufacturing service for everyday people. As a follow-up, I thought I' d share a story that was recently sent to me about how 18-year-old Alan Chao turned an idea into winning product in just 24 days. According to the Ponoko case study, Alan made his first set of coasters [...]

Meet the Beckers - We are all familiar with the typical car commercial; the car is seen cruising through scenic landscape on a closed course with a professional driver at the wheel and the narrator is in the background telling you about gas mileage, safety ratings and then some spiel about financing options. Whether you are watching an advertisement [...]

In Memoriam – Blogs (1993-2008?) - For a guy who loves reading online, I still feel mild excitement on magazine delivery day. Yes, I' m a Neanderthal who reads print on dead trees (or wheat, which fits the bill nicely for I live in a country whose rockers pay tribute to all things agrarian). There' s something about having a tactile [...]

My unforgettable trip to Bogota, Colombia - I spent the last two days in Bogota Colombia meeting with NGO’s social entrepreneurs, government and business leaders who are all working together to change Colombian society. The Fundacion Saldarriaga Concha sponsored my trip and it was organized by Andres Franco from a management company called CLG . I had previously met GLC’s founder Gustavo [...]

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R eflections of a Literary Journey

What was the difference? The losers launched Web sites. The winners launched vibrant communities. The losers built walled gardens. The winners built public squares. The losers innovated internally. The winners innovated with their losers. The losers jealously guarded their data and software interfaces. The winners shared them with everyone.

Continuous Learning & Development

The problem from an organizational and knowledge-management point of view, however, lies in the inability of firms to capture and codify those moments of inspired brilliance - the moments when someone does something spontaneous that could be the key to unlocking a whole new approach to getting things done. Mayfield suggests the self-organizing group formation process should occur in social software. “Those are the moments where the greatest amount of learning occurs”, he says.

The Eponymous Pickle

… The wikified organization is a proposal for the ultimate in ‘flattening’ of an organization that was pushed, in most business schools, so heavily during the 90’s.

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Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies

admin — Mon, 26 May 2008 13:49:30 +0000

Product Description:

Corporate executives are struggling with a new trend: people using online social technologies (blogs, social networking sites, YouTube, podcasts) to discuss products and companies, write their own news, and find their own deals. This groundswell is global, it s unstoppable, it affects every industry and it s utterly foreign to the powerful companies running things now.

When consumers you ve never met are rating your company s products in public forums with which you have no experience or influence, your company is vulnerable. In Groundswell, Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff of Forrester, Inc. explain how to turn this threat into an opportunity.

Using tools and data straight from Forrester, you ll learn how to:

Evaluate new social technologies as they emerge

Determine how different groups of consumers are participating in social technology arenas

Apply a four-step process for formulating your future strategy

Build social technologies into your business including monitoring your brand value, talking with the groundswell through marketing and PR campaigns, and energizing your best customers to recruit their peers

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Why I'm leaving Forrester - by Charlene Li I was once asked what was the best career advice I ever received -- and it was to plan for job obsolescence every 18 months, because research showed that people typically master a job in that time...
The real business model for Web 2.0: corporate clients - by Josh Bernoff Everyone seems to want an answer to the question "When will Web 2.0 startups start making money?" The implication is that unless we can answer the question, the "bubble" of Web 2.0 will burst and all of...
Data chart of the week: social networks around the world - by Josh Bernoff There's a lot of speculation about social networks, and predictions usually go in one of two directions: This is growing and soon everybody will be on one (or more than one) This is a fad and even...
Google Friend Connect -- making open social easy - by Charlene Li Google announced that it would be releasing Google Friend Connect this evening (link won't work until Monday evening.) The idea behind Friend Connect is to give Web masters the tools to easily add social features to their...
Facebook Connect - another step to open social networks - by Charlene Li Facebook just announced "Facebook Connect", which they position as the natural evolution of Facebook as an open platform, which started from their initial API in 2006 and expanded with Facebook Platform in May 2007. This is how...
Data chart of the week: international blog and user-generated video participation - by Josh Bernoff In today's post we're showing off our international data capabilities with some data about participation in creating and consuming content in different geographies. This is the first table in Chapter 2 of Groundswell. I find it amazing...
Social technology marketers bullish in face of recession - by Josh Bernoff In February we published research based on our expectation that interactive marketers should continue their investments in social applications with a recession potentially coming. Today we published the results of new research that shows that many interactive...
Listening with Summize and Tweetscan - by Josh Bernoff As Twitter swells, at least in the minds of Groundswell thinkers, you have to wonder what people are saying about you. It's easy enough to track that (in theory . . . more on that later) using...
Data chart of the week: who do people trust? - by Josh Bernoff For today's weekly data chart we'll look at a different kind of data for a change -- not a Social Technographics Profile but some attitudinal data that's highlighted in Groundswell. Today's question is: whom do you trust?...
Yahoo! Open throws down the gauntlet for the open social graph - by Charlene Li Yahoo! unveiled Yahoo! Open at O'Reilly's Web 2.0 Expo today. In a nutshell, Yahoo! is doing the following: 1. Rewiring Yahoo!. They are making it possible to create applications that can be shown throughout all of Yahoo!....

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Lindy Dreyer

What is the groundswell? A social trend in which people use technologies to get the things they need from each other, rather than from traditional institutions like corporations (or associations like ours.) Some of the association community is already being impacted by the groundswell…it’s only a matter of time before all of us will be impacted.

Scott McAtrthur

Li and Bernoff present a strong case for organisations to look on Web 2.0 as an opportunity rather than a threat. They do this by presenting what they refer to as their Social Technographics Ladders in which they classify customers depending on their Web 2.0 activities.

David Neal,

To hammer home their message, the authors pay particular attention to Kevin Rose, the founder of news aggregation site Digg.com.

One of the poster boys of a new generation of web services entrepreneurs, Rose was at the sharp end of the Web 2.0 revolution when a sensitive piece of “news” was removed from the Digg site by the site operators. When this happened, Digg users spread the offending article across other sites and blogs. As a result, the story re-appeared on Digg, and once again all traces of it were removed. When Digg got tired of repeating this process it relented, giving editorial control back to its users. “Caught between a lawsuit and its own audience, Digg bowed to the greater force: the audience,” write Li and Bernoff.

Lee Odden

“Groundswell” is the social trend that happens when people start connecting with each other via social technologies. The result: they start getting what they need from each other, rather than from companies. That’s incredibly disruptive to businesses who adhere to traditional ways of managing and marketing.

Nick O’Neil (with interview podcast)

Not only does the book provide a thorough overview of the current state of social technologies and their impact but it also discusses how businesses can adapt to them. Charlene emphasizes in the book and in my discussion with her that the focus should not be on the individual technologies that shape the social web (and the groundswell) but instead on the relationships.

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List of corporate blogging resources

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Dogear - IBM Lotus Connections - Save, organize and share bookmarks; discover bookmarks that have been qualified by others with similar interests & expertise. Dogear gives people a better way to manage their own bookmarks as well as share, subscribe and search the community's bookmarks.
LinkedIn - Our mission is to help you be more effective in your daily work and open doors to opportunities using the professional relationships you already have. This isn’t networking—it’s what networking should be. 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
Awareness Inc- Community Types - Awareness takes a holistic view of communities and is unique in its ability to create communities that mix internal and external audiences. Why? Enterprise security and control to segment users with different permissions and privileges Manual and auto
WorkLight - WorkLight™ is a server-based software product that brings a secure and highly- personalized "Web 2.0" computing experience to the enterprise.
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
ContactNet | Enterprise Relationship Management Solution supports business development
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
Qu’est-ce que l’Entreprise 2.0 ?
Business Blog Consulting: Everything about Corporate Blogs and Business Blogging. - usiness Blog Consulting is a site devoted to demonstrating how effective weblogs can be for communicating with customers and marketing to new customer prospects.
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.

Hello world! This is CorporateBlogging.net

admin — Thu, 15 May 2008 15:29:45 +0000

Welcome to this new project.

The objective of CorporateBlogging.net is to list any resources dedicated to collaborative enterprises.

We talk about books, softwares, services and practices that enable companies to integrate the best practices of Web 2.0.