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Grow Your Wiki was founded in October, 2005 and offers insight, examples, case studies, and advice on enterprise wiki adoption and usage inside organizations. The site is available in four languages (English, German, Polish, Portuguese), and reaches an audience of 6,000 people/month around the world. (Want to reach this audience?)

Stewart Mader

Stewart Mader is the founder of Grow Your Wiki. He is a wiki expert, public speaker, and author of the books Wikipatterns and Using Wiki in Education. He teaches people at Fortune 500 companies, universities, non-profits, and small businesses how to improve productivity and collaboration using wikis. More about Stewart

Contributors

Marcelo Cardoso is a contributing author to Grow Your Wiki. He works on wiki adoption and knowledge management, and is leading the enterprise wiki at Santa Catarina Supreme Court (Brazil), used for internal documentation and knowledge sharing. He is pursuing his Masters Degree in the Post-Graduate Program in Knowledge Engineering and Management from Santa Catarina Federal University, and his work’s title is “Collaborative Knowledge Production: the Wiki on enterprise environment”.
Vincenzo Cammarata is a guest author for Grow Your Wiki. He wrote the popular series Wikibility: 8 cultural key drivers that make Wikis work in organizations, which is based on his master’s thesis in Corporate Communication at University of Lugano, Switzerland. He serves as communication and marketing officer for Darwin Airline. Posts by Vincenzo
Camille Goksever is a guest author for Grow Your Wiki. She is an amenable risk taker and an entrepreneur at heart. She has run the gamet from working for Fortune 500 companies to Start-Ups, and from owning her own restaurant in the San Francisco Bay Area to a wine exporting business in Istanbul, Turkey. Wikis were a central focus in her businesses, and continue to be in her second life as an independent Wiki consultant for Chevron. With seven more lives to go, she’s anxious to ingrain social computing as a better way of doing business. Posts by Camille
Nate Nash is a guest author for Grow Your Wiki. He is a management consultant who is leading the enterprise wiki rollout at BearingPoint, a large, publicly traded professional services firm based in the US. Posts by Nate
Greg Warner is a guest author for Grow Your Wiki. He works on wiki adoption and knowledge management for a global defense systems company in Australia. Posts by Greg

Stewart Mader presenting at Northern Voice 2008

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Andrea Baker said: "Hi Dean, you are right, while we don't have the name cache of a big tech firm here in DC that stands out. Google does have a DC satellite office, so that's a start and all the big companies have HQs around here. Northrup Grumman, Massive (ahem) I mean General Dynamics, CACI, Mantech. All these" on Is Washington D.C. the Next Major Technology Mecca?
pfctdayelise said: "Good post. However I think it is difficult for the "mediumness" of wiki not to affect its use as a tool. It can be convenient even as a sole editor, to use a wiki as a tool to write an essay. You get lightweight markup and automatic revision control. But if there are other editors, I" on When is a Wiki a Tool, and When is it a Medium? Or Both?
Dean Thrasher said: "The are lots of techies in DC. Many of them work quietly for the government -- either directly in federal agencies or indirectly for one of the many consulting firms and systems integrators in the area. (Hi Nate! Hi Andrea!) What the capital area doesn't have is the high-profile tech start-up community of Silicon Valley, Seattle," on Is Washington D.C. the Next Major Technology Mecca?
Johan Jenefeldt said: "To be honest, I don't think todays teachers are able to teach students how to write blogs or other social media. Even if they understand the importance of doing so, I don't think they know how to. Maybe the other way around - Students teaching the teachers?" on When is a Wiki a Tool, and When is it a Medium? Or Both?
Mark said: "I think that this point needs to be significantly amplified. Wiki changes notions about participation and flips the action paradigm on end. With a wiki, your base level activity is action, you are assumed to edit anything you see fit. Action becomes naturally assumed, this means that you are constantly deciding not" on When is a Wiki a Tool, and When is it a Medium? Or Both?