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re: re: re: Wiki collaboration leads to happiness a reply to re: re: Wiki collaboration leads to happiness in a conversation thread started hereby Vaughan Merlyn on Apr 04, 2008 - 11:56 AM read 120 times |
As 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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