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Tomorrow: Wiki Wednesday Stuttgart

I got a nice note from Martin Koser after my post last week about travelling in Europe – Martin invited me to the Wiki Wednesday Stuttgart that takes place tomorrow, 26 September, in Stuttgart, Germany. I won’t be able to go, but if you’re in the area, I think it will be a great gathering […]


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Will the wiki replace and make obsolete other tools?

I got asked this question during a presentation earlier this week. It’s a simple question with a complicated answer — here’s why: Historically, whenever any new enterprise tool has appeared on the landscape, its proponents have told everyone that it was the next big thing (think KM systems) and would obsolete everything else so they […]


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Bill Ives writes about Wiki Best Practices for Enterprise 2.0

Over on the FastForward Blog, Bill Ives writes about some excellent ways to introduce wikis in organizations. He focuses on events and meetings – specifically holding asynchronous meetings on the wiki: “You should also encourage participants to sign their contributions, In a live meeting this is obviously part of the give and take. People need […]


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Fear of “looking stupid” or “doing something wrong” on the wiki

Here’s another one from my meetings this week: a couple of people asked me about how to contribute to a wiki without looking stupid. This is a question I get quite often when meeting with organizations to talk wiki adoption. Some people will say that the biggest obstacle keeping them from participating on the wiki […]


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Are contributions on your wiki dominated by one group?

At one of my visits this week, I was asked about what to do when your wiki has got too many contributions or comments from one group. How can you balance that by getting other groups to contribute as well? Email and invite them to comment. Explain the case – just say “Hey, most of […]