Ideally, every meeting should strive to be like a Macworld Keynote. It should take place only as often as necessary, involve something really important to discuss, and leave people charged up and motivated. Let’s look at how you can make this happen using a wiki and Chris Brogan’s 3 meeting types: announcement, status, & brainstorming. [Read more]

Steve Hargadon emailed to let me know that planning is wrapping up for Classroom 2.0 LIVE, a 2-day workshop being held in San Francisco February 1 & 2. I’ll be presenting How to Be a Wiki Evangelist Within Your Organization on Friday (Feb. 1) afternoon. Steve is passionately committed to a vision of “engaged education” that is emerging [Read more]

By now, you’ve probably seen the announcement that Microsoft and Atlassian made yesterday morning about the SharePoint Connector for Confluence. So why is this important from a wiki adoption and use perspective? It frees organizations from the “One size fits all” mentality [Read more]

Updated 12X: Today, Atlassian and Microsoft introduce the SharePoint Connector for Confluence. The connector bridges the two products so that users can search across both from one place, embed Confluence wiki pages in SharePoint, link to and edit SharePoint content from within [Read more]

Mike Cannon-Brookes, Atlassian’s co-Founder, recently presented on Organisational Wiki Adoption at WebDirections South 2007 in Sydney, Australia. The presentation is excellent on both content and design – in fact, Mike set a goal of no bullet points: “FYI I set myself the challenge of [Read more]

Nathan Wallace of Janssen-Cilag has written an excellent case study on their wiki adoption, which Bill Ives picked up on the FastForward Blog. Janssen-Cilag is a pharmaceutical research company with employees in Australia and New Zealand, and is one of 250 operating companies of [Read more]

As of today, the Wikipatterns.com community has grown to 500 registered users! I was alerted to this last night when a new user emailed me to say that he couldn’t register. When we initially set up Wikipatterns in January, we gave it a Confluence community license for up to 500 [Read more]

If you’re interested in growing wiki adoption/use in your organization, sign up for the Wikipatterns.com Newsletter, an occasional publication with news on Wikipatterns.com, tips on wiki adoption, highlighted patterns and more – and you can choose to receive it by email or RSS! [Read more]

I’m in Brisbane, Australia to visit Queensland University of Technology (QUT) and participate in their Wiki Symposium. It’s organised around three themes: Learning and Teaching, Research, and Business Support, and gives QUT’s wiki community a chance to share examples, case [Read more]

Wikis are the future of enterprise collaboration, so improving adoption and effective use in your organization is key to realizing benefits like reduced email, fewer meetings – and less time spent in meetings, and faster, better knowledge generation. Want to know how to achieve this? [Read more]