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Why more meetings should be like a Macworld keynote, and how a wiki can help

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]

2-day Classroom 2.0 LIVE workshop in San Francisco is coming up fast!

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]

SharePoint Connector for Confluence - so what does it all mean?

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]

Atlassian, Microsoft release SharePoint Connector for Confluence

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 on Organisational Wiki Adoption

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]

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Wikipatterns book: a practical guide to improving productivity and collaboration in your organizationUsing Wiki in Education wiki bookWikipatterns: Practical guide to improving productivity and collaboration in your organization.

Using Wiki in Education: Collection of case studies on wiki use in teaching/learning, research, and administration.