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Corporate Wikis

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

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A wiki is a Web site that lets visitors easily add, remove and change the content. The first wiki was created in the mid 90s by computer programmer Ward Cunningham who named his invention,”wiki,” after the word for quick in Hawaiian.
The best-known wiki is perhaps Wikipedia, the online […]

No Rest for the Wiki

Thursday, July 17th, 2008

The online tools for building collective info banks are making deeper inroads in corporations and rewriting the rules of collaboration. 

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Wikis: Inciting Collaboration

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

Think of a wiki as a natural extension to the blogging concept, a classification-centric medium which allows for a freedom of content manipulation across a community of users that can’t be found in any other comparable technology. By engendering enthusiasm and commitment from every user, the wiki can become the perfect tool for the […]

Ten Commandments of Blog and Wiki Etiquette

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

Fueled in large part by the usercentric Web 2.0 trend, the Internet has evolved considerably as a communications platform, offering people innovative means for keeping in touch and sharing knowledge instantly with others across the
Blogs and wikis, which enable folks to broadcast their thoughts to the Web at large and to collaborate on documents, […]

Five Ways To Get Your (Corporate) Wiki On

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

Wikis are a great source of constantly updated, widely accessible information for consumers. But enterprise use is limited. So here’s five simple steps to encourage wiki adoption in a company.

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How One Company Is Using Wikis and Blogs to Unclog E-Mail Box

Thursday, June 12th, 2008

CORT uses Jive’s ClearSpace and seems to like it…

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Online Collaboration Tools and Resources: Kolabora Picks No. 92

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

Coccinella: Connect to major instant messaging services from any operating system
Wikidot: Create free wikis for unlimited people with 100MB of storage space
Nexdo: Free service allows teams to create pages, exchange links, and share files
Jagbox: Upload any file, set the expiration time, and share the link with anyone

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Boosting Teamwork with Wikis

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

Egged on by his colleagues, Ben Sutton snatched $1,000 from his company’s safe late last year. It was no heist, but the culmination of a fierce competition at Rosen Law, a firm that specializes in divorce cases in Raleigh. In an effort to get his employees to collaborate more effectively, owner and chief executive […]

Don’t Fear the Wiki! Business Can Benefit

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

Fear is one of the obstacles keeping businesses from realizing productivity gains by using internal wikis. But the business gains–collaboration, informed employees, sense of community–may outweigh any risks.

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VizList–The Data Visualization List

Thursday, January 10th, 2008

WikiMindMap is a tool to browse easily and efficiently in Wiki content, inspired by the mindmap technique. Wiki pages in large public wiki’s, such as Wikipedia, have become rich and complex documents. This tool aims to support users to get a good structured and easy understandable overview of the topic you are looking for.

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