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Oct 24, 2007

Wiki Adoption: Hopefully no more emails and no more paper files!

A friend and fellow Confluence user sent me this message recently: “Just going through the process of having a company audited at the moment. This involved me having to prepare a hard copy file as well as sending loads of emails back and forth with the auditors. Next year I’m just going to create a wiki space, give the auditors access to it and put all the information they need there. Hopefully no more emails and no more paper files!”

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Wikipatterns book: a practical guide to improving productivity and collaboration in your organization Future Changes is Stewart Mader. He wrote the book on wiki adoption, and he has led or advised enterprise-wide wiki deployments in Fortune 500 companies, universities, nonprofits, small and medium size companies.

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  • Mark Fidelman said: "Michael has captured the benefits and challenges of using Wiki's within the enterprise well. Some of the challenges I have seen are the lack of a formal structure in wiki's. Meaning, it's usually"
  • Martin Seibert said: "What a praise! :-) "
  • Don Barry said: "Foswiki has all of these things (it's the TWiki programmers, code, and community under a renaming forced by a trademark troll and threatened lawsuits). I've deployed it with skins to match two university themes, and"
  • Stefan Kleineikenscheidt said: "Absolutely agree. Waiting for Wave which will be even better. :) my 2 euro cents, -Stefan"
  • Martin Seibert said: "Hi Stewart, I am missing real open source alternatives in your list. Did you leave them out by purpose? What about Foswiki (TWiki-fork) or XWiki? Best regards Martin Seibert"

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