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So, You're Thinking About A WIKI?
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So, you’re thinking about a WIKI?

Have you wondered about a WIKI? I mean, about getting into it, making it really sing for you? Just what is it? What’s the return on the effort to learn what makes it go? What accounts for its increasing buzz? You know it’s meant to be a tool for collaboration, but does it truly work? Is it what it’s cracked up to be? Most important, you ask, is it for us? For me?

If you have such questions and more on how a WIKI might help your organization—virtual or on the ground—make a giant leap in idea generation and application, I have good news for you. Lots of good news, in fact, packed into the 167 pages between the covers of a new book titled Wikipatterns by Stewart Mader.

Mader is a social software maven who, in 2006, wrote the first book that focuses specifically on the application of the WIKI in education, and actively demonstrates the tool in action. He’s the founder and administrator of two groups on Facebook: (1) Using Wiki in Education and (2) Wikipatterns.

How do you get a WIKI started? What will draw people to it? How do you spare them from fear of putting their thoughts down for all to see? How do you minimize their angst over editing others’ comments and thereby offending them? How do you get over someone else editing your own comments? How much is vandalism a spoiler to great group effort? Is this tool for small scale enterprises only, or just the opposite? How long does it take to get started? What’s its life-span? Who moderates it?


Mader answers all these questions and many more that tell you what you don’t know that you don’t know. He does this with a competence, flow and range of experience that shows how others have cleared these hurdles. Ten mercifully brief case studies give ample evidence of how the WIKI pulls people into a knowledge-and-solution camp that runs rings around email for speed, effectiveness, cohesion and intellectual rigor.


His chapter, “11 Steps to a Successful WIKI Pilot” is, for me, the brilliant sparkler among many glowing stones. I mean, after all, this is how a successful venture gets started, and we’re using this chapter as a model for building a WIKI workbook for our virtual site on Facebook, “Your Inner CEO/The Book for Business.”


In the end, Mader makes clear that the opportunity that the WIKI provides is its inherent flexibility for you to shape it completely to meet the needs of your organization, no matter how unique it is.


Don’t even think about undertaking a WIKI without absorbing the good vibes, savvy and energy of this guide.


All the best,


Allan


January 10, 2008 | 8:01 AM Comments  0 comments

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So, you’re thinking about a WIKI?

Have you wondered about a WIKI? I mean, about getting into it, making it really sing for you? Just what is it? What’s the return on the effort to learn what makes it go? What accounts for its increasing buzz? You know it’s meant to be a tool for collaboration, but does it truly work? Is it what it’s cracked up to be? Most important, you ask, is it for us? For me?

If you have such questions and more on how a WIKI might help your organization—virtual or on the ground—make a giant leap in idea generation and application, I have good news for you. Lots of good news, in fact, packed into the 167 pages between the covers of a new book titled Wikipatterns by Stewart Mader.

Mader is a social software maven who, in 2006, wrote the first book that focuses specifically on the application of the WIKI in education, and actively demonstrates the tool in action. He’s the founder and administrator of two groups on Facebook: (1) Using Wiki in Education and (2) Wikipatterns.

How do you get a WIKI started? What will draw people to it? How do you spare them from fear of putting their thoughts down for all to see? How do you minimize their angst over editing others’ comments and thereby offending them? How do you get over someone else editing your own comments? How much is vandalism a spoiler to great group effort? Is this tool for small scale enterprises only, or just the opposite? How long does it take to get started? What’s its life-span? Who moderates it?


Mader answers all these questions and many more that tell you what you don’t know that you don’t know. He does this with a competence, flow and range of experience that shows how others have cleared these hurdles. Ten mercifully brief case studies give ample evidence of how the WIKI pulls people into a knowledge-and-solution camp that runs rings around email for speed, effectiveness, cohesion and intellectual rigor.


His chapter, “11 Steps to a Successful WIKI Pilot” is, for me, the brilliant sparkler among many glowing stones. I mean, after all, this is how a successful venture gets started, and we’re using this chapter as a model for building a WIKI workbook for our virtual site on Facebook, “Your Inner CEO/The Book for Business.”


In the end, Mader makes clear that the opportunity that the WIKI provides is its inherent flexibility for you to shape it completely to meet the needs of your organization, no matter how unique it is.


Don’t even think about undertaking a WIKI without absorbing the good vibes, savvy and energy of this guide.


All the best,


Allan


January 10, 2008 | 8:01 AM Comments  0 comments

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