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Jason Fried: If you want success, follow the chefs

Jason Fried of 37signals spoke last Friday at SXSW Interactive about the lessons he’s learned from building the successful, Chicago-based software company. All 14 lessons are priceless, but #9 stands out the most for me: Lesson 9: Follow the Chefs Jason called chefs the smartest business professionals. He explained this is because they are aware […]

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A Tale of Two Wikis: Techniques for building, managing and promoting collaborative communities

Just found this excellent paper by Laurence Parry from the 2006 Wikimania conference. It focuses on starting and building a community wiki, and a lot of his ideas, tips, and advice also apply to wiki use in organizations: …why would you want to build such a wiki in the first place, and why would such […]

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Wikis at the White House

In a recent Washington Post article, Stephen Barr explores how the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is using a wiki to track earmarks in the federal budget. Earmarking is a process by which members of Congress designate money for specific projects, often in their home states or congressional districts. With the wiki, […]

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APC’s 7 Strategies for Implementing a Successful Corporate Wiki

Industry Week reports on the results of a study on wikis in business by the Society for Information Management’s Advanced Practices Council (APC). When considering use of wikis, CIOs should keep in mind that in reality, a large number of companies may already have employees using wikis for work purposes without the authority to do […]

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Why using a wiki instead of email or documents will multiply your collaboration effectiveness

John Tropia recently explained how wikis (along with blogs and social networks) enable better knowledge sharing. To set up the comparison, here’s how he described the struggle to share tacit knowledge using a traditional document management system: “Let’s not even talk about sharing personal information and thoughts (supposed tacit