Building Rich Communities With Wikis

Jim Groom, Nancy White, and Dick Carlson have blogged my session from Northern Voice, and I must say it’s fascinating and really valuable to go back a couple days later and see what I said. I think so often what we say in presentations is lost if not captured in some tangible form, and these posts let me at least make sure I said something coherent…thanks bloggers!

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  1. Yes, wiki’s have the potential to allow us to build very rich communities. I think that Wiki’s will become particularly helpful in the workplace too. A good medical wiki would be great for those who are in medicine, and internal wiki’s – dedicated to processes, ways of doing things, policies etc. even in the corporate world can make the particular business into a wonderful community. Corporate would benefit from community ideas, and a Wiki is definitely one of the (non-fake) ways in which they can do that.

  2. Here in our office, wikis serve as our repository of ideas. Since most teams are consist of members living from different cities, meetings are usually done online through video conferencing. Wikis would then be used to collect all ideas generated from all discussions. Eventually, the wiki become our sort of test site.

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