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Wiki collaboration leads to happiness by Anthony D. Williams  on Mar 26, 2008 - 04:42 PM read 743 times
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They say a picture is worth a thousand words and I think this one sums up the power of wiki collaboration better than any 1,000 word essay ever could. The model is courtesy of Chris Rasmussen at US National Geospatial Intelligence Agency. I presented this slide during a talk I gave at Nokia today and someone pointed out that the happy faces on the left probably ought to be frowning — he had a good point.
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by Barbara McGill on Mar 27, 2008 - 09:32 AM read 59 timesI'm trying to imagine how you would get wikis to work for things like proposals or slide decks. If everyone is working on the same document at the same time or even over a short time span, wouldn't people be changing things that others may not want changed? Wouldn't you have to constantly monitor to see what others have done to ensure the message is the same? I see how it works on Wikipedia but am still fuzzy on how I use them in my job. -
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by Alan Savoy on Mar 31, 2008 - 10:37 AM read 44 timesI am guilty of being more of a consumer of wiki's than a contributor, but coming from the technical side of things, I could see using them for technical subjects. Since I am not a contributor, I do not know how well they handle document collaboration. It seems most wikis expose what would be the contents of a document as the wiki post itself, that way authors can contribute to parts without having to version control the entire subject. For developers, technical discussions are handled separately from the code, which is version controlled with check-out or merge capabilities.
It seems a wiki would be useful, at least for the technical folks. It could provide a mechanism to gather our knowledge on tools, techniques, and solutions. Even for that knowledge that could be Googled, it would be a good place to distill the best and most useful links. For the software that we produce, it would provide a good mechanism to implement FAQs and bug handling.
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by Susan Scrupski on Apr 04, 2008 - 10:20 AM read 34 timesHi Barbara. My experience with wikis as a collaboration tool has been positive. For group documents, most of the time specific individuals handle their part of a group document. If issues need to be debated/discussed, it's done in the comments before committing to an edit to the document. -
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by Vaughan Merlyn on Apr 04, 2008 - 11:56 AM read 40 timesAs an FYI, the team that's been working on the Reaching Level 3 Business-IT Maturity research project, has just conducted a brave (for us!) experiment by using a Wiki to collaboratively write the final research report.
Thanks to New Paradigm and their Confluence Wiki, and thanks to colleague Roy Youngman for "paving the way" for the team by figuring out the mechanics and logistics, and training the team, I think the experiment is going to be a big success. It has been a learning curve - a Wiki is not MS Word. There is something quite different about editing someone else's text online in real time, compared with the old Word mark-up and pass the file around method! There were mechanical things to learn - different editors, how to spell check, etc. There were structural things to learn - what's the best "logical page unit." And so on.
We (the team) is still wrestling with whether/how to have the research member companies have access to the wiki version of the final (or even, draft) report. A hyperlinked document that "lives in the Internet cloud" feels so much more valuable than a .pdf file. A hyperlinked document that not only lives in the cloud, but is Intellectual Capital embedded in a BSG Alliance Agile & Collaborative Technology offering feels even more powerful!
So, again, thanks to Roy for "pathfinding" for us, and to New Paradigm for being such gracious hosts!
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by Wiki Collaboration - Visualized! on Mar 27, 2008 - 09:29 AM read 69 times
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By: steve gutenburg
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by steve gutenburg on Mar 27, 2008 - 09:27 PM read 92 times
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It’s a matter of perspective.
We’re the ones that frown at e-mail compared to wikis.
The e-mailerers ARE happy to be e-mailing - their reality is completely different than ours.
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By: Chris Rasmussen
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by Chris Rasmussen on Mar 27, 2008 - 09:17 PM read 82 times
Source: http://www.wikinomics.com/blog/index.php/2008/03/26/wiki-...
We recently upgraded to the frowning on the email side version. Ill send you a copy.
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By: Euan W Semple
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by Euan W Semple on Mar 28, 2008 - 11:15 AM read 100 times
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Really Steve? I hear people moan about e-mail more than any other aspect of corporate life.
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By: David Cameron
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by David Cameron on Mar 28, 2008 - 04:35 PM read 70 times
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While I agree that email does come to you; there are alternatives.
RSS feeds for example are a great way of having revisions sent to you in an unobtrusive manner.
Alternatively, you can subscribe to certain pages and get updates via email when any changes have been made. This way you get an email (that you’re use to) but you no longer have to worry if the file you have is the latest.
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By: Beth Hynes
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by Beth Hynes on Mar 28, 2008 - 03:57 PM read 81 times
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An advantage of email is that it comes to you. You don’t have to go out looking to see if updates have been done.
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By: Chris Rasmussen
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by Chris Rasmussen on Mar 28, 2008 - 06:56 PM read 62 times
Source: http://www.wikinomics.com/blog/index.php/2008/03/26/wiki-...
The great thing about RSS is you can ‘pull” what you want “pushed.” It’s not blasted in the mix with other blasted (newsletters, reply all, etc.) email.
I turned off email pings for wiki updates because checking my watch list is a standard practice. However, the great thing about wiki update email pings is that it’s an email you can throw away.
Email is good for notification but not so great when it comes to collaboration as the graphic indicates. Email is not bad, it’s simply over-used. It’s a “when you only know how to use a hammer, all problems are nail” type thing.
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by BrandBrains links for 2008-03-29 on Mar 28, 2008 - 07:30 PM read 76 times
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By: Parking Lot Why wikis work
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by Parking Lot Why wikis work on Mar 29, 2008 - 12:20 AM read 65 times
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By: Wiki collaboration leads to happiness (updated and revisited!)
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by Wiki collaboration leads to happiness (updated and revisited!) on Mar 29, 2008 - 05:45 AM read 58 times
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by Daily Bookmarks 03/29/2008 Experiencing E-Learning on Mar 29, 2008 - 05:36 PM read 68 times
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by links for 2008-03-29 | Teacher's Bag of Tricks on Mar 29, 2008 - 06:36 PM read 66 times
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by Library Views on Mar 29, 2008 - 10:51 PM read 75 times
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by Waarom gebruiken we nog e-mail | MartinKloos.nl on Mar 30, 2008 - 09:51 AM read 63 times
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by tom on Mar 30, 2008 - 08:20 AM read 65 times
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Great visualization which I’ll try in my ongoing efforts to promote wiki use in my work place. However I think that “different” continues to cancel out “easier” in too many cases. I wonder if ball point pens had such a hard time getting accepted?
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by WebTools For Teachers 03/30/2008 WebTools For Learners on Mar 30, 2008 - 07:37 AM read 65 times
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