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NYK Europe: Wiki Keeps Global Shipping Firm on Course

How does wiki use grow inside a 35,000 person company with offices around the world (and at sea)?

To find out, I interviewed Alek Lotoczko for this feature article on The Content Wrangler: NYK Europe: Wiki Keeps International Shipping Firm on Course:

“We wanted something that was quick, lightweight, social, fun to use and easy to deploy, something that could function as an intranet out-of-the box and that could also be used for news dissemination.”

Read on to find out:

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    In the weeks since my talk witch Stewart we have been pursuing a number of other tools to deploy to complement the wiki initiative: a Social Bookmarking trial from Cogenz and RSS aggregation from NewsGator and NewGator Go. We have also been customising or wiki look & feel using the Adaptavist Theme Builder tool which I find excellent but confusing.

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