SubscribeMar 4, 2008
Day 20: Incentives & Recognition
How can you use incenties and recognition to grow wiki use? Here are 3 ways – gifts, recognition from leadership, & employee evaluations:
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.
Advisory Services include: adoption strategy and timeframe, vendor/product analysis, content structure and templates, roles and permissions, data migration, and workshops. Linda Ziffrin of Valley View Ventures handles bookings. Contact to discuss your needs.
RECENT COMMENTS
- 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"
- Sarah said: "Thanks for the writeup Stewart! This is a big day for MindTouch and we're proud to be providing a [collaborative] Intranet that is engineered with intelligence and delivers businesses HIGHER ROI and lower TCO than"
- Mark Roseman said: "Hi Stewart, thanks very much for putting this guide together - a very useful resource! I put up a blog post pointing to it, as well as talking a bit about pricing models for"
- Martin Seibert said: "Hi Stewart, this is very valuable content. Congratulations to your study. I like the results a lot. Is it correct, that your respondents all came from self-recruited online-ressources? How did you attract them? Best regards Martin Seibert"
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Thomas Kriese says:
Mar 5th, 2008
We’re using Socialtext in our workplace, and in the first few weeks after we adopted it, I used the weekly usage logs to create a kind of “music ranking chart” (all apologies to Rolling Stone) of users to show how they lined up against their peers in a weighted rank of their Socialtext usage (edits count for more than views).
So, each week, I’d list out the staff (we’re a 30-person shop) in rank order from most active to least. I’d calculate their movement in the ranks since the previous week, I’d highlight the big movers (up 10 slots since last week!) and call out the folks making their debut on the chart. This seemed to get the competitive juices flowing, and soon enough usage was up enough overall that we could drop the weekly comparisons and instead focus on the quality of content for recognition (not the volume).
A temporary program using already-existing stats presented in a new way, but we can definitely see how the Socialtext usage curve zoomed up during that time.
Stewart Mader says:
Mar 10th, 2008
Thomas,
That’s an excellent way to recognize the top contributors and participants on the wiki and simultaneously show the level of activity on the wiki to demonstrate it’s value to people who are not yet fully engaged in using it.
Bravo!
Stewart