More worldwide praise for 21 Days of Wiki Adoption -
this time from Germany, New Zealand, and the US:

Felix Harling from Germany wrote about the series and the Wikipatterns book on his blog EinfachSchnellKlar (Easy-Fast-Clear):

Stewart Mader has written wikipatterns, a book that was very well received by the enterprise 2.0 and knowledge management community. Those who don’t want to buy the book (or don’t have an online access to the book e.g. thanks to the SAP SkillSoft partnership) may have a look at the Wikipatterns website or at Stewart’s blog: he is currently publishing a “21 days of wiki adoption” video serial.

Scott Abel wrote about the series on his blog The Content Wrangler, and specifically discussed Day 18: WikiCharter – community ‘house rules’.

A WikiCharter is a set of guidelines to ensure productive interaction between members of your wiki community. Here are five guidelines from the Sony Ericsson Developer World wiki provided by wiki evangelist, Stewart Mader, author of the book, Wikipatterns: A Practical Guide to Improving Productivity and Collaboration in Your Organization.

Marshall Kirkpatrick wrote about the series on the blog ReadWriteWeb, where he is a Lead Author:

…here is wiki consultant Stewart Mader’s great short video series 21 Days of Wiki Adoption.

Mike Riversdale from New Zealand wrote about the series on his blog MiramarMike.co.nz – Generating agile organisations:

Stewart Mader has been running a fascinating (and must see) podcast of how to encourage wiki uptake within your organisation…

Mark Oehlert linked to the series on his blog e-Clippings (Learning as Art).

Thanks Felix, Scott, Marshall, Mike, and Mark!

More worldwide praise for 21 Days of Wiki Adoption -
this time from South Africa and the US:

Patrick Berry and Scott Jungling at CSU Chico wrote about the series on their blog Institutional Knowledge:

Our friend Stewart Mader is putting out 21 Days of Wiki Adoption videos. Even if you are already going with your wiki project, there will be some episodes worth watching.

Matt Herzberger linked to the series from his blog mattherzberger.com.

Anne Gentle wrote about the series on her blog just write click and specifically pointed out Day 12: Documentation:

Each video is short, encapsulated, and easily digested when you need a break. I’m really enjoying them, and the cool US map background behind Stewart.

Note: I’ll be presenting Wiki Roundtripping? Structured Authoring? How Do They Co-Exist? with Anne at DocTrain West 2008 in Vancouver, BC in early May.

Younique, a social media marketing firm in South Africa, wrote about the series on their blog marketing + it, and specifically discussed Day 13: Wiki vs. Content Management System and Day 14: Is Data Safe in a Wiki?.

Thanks Patrick, Scott, Matt, Anne, and Younique!

After upgrading to WordPress 2.5 earlier today, I found one problem. The Popularity Contest plugin (generates a list of the most popular posts on your blog – it powers the Have you read these? list on the right) wasn’t working. Fortunately there’s an easy fix. [Read more]

Matt Mullenweg writes this morning that WordPress 2.5 is now available:

WordPress 2.5, the culmination of six months of work by the WordPress community, people just like you. The improvements in 2.5 are numerous, and almost entirely a result of your feedback…check out a 4-minute screencast of the new interface in action.

Here’s 2.5 upgrade and download information straight from the source.

The new Wikibility Workplaces series being penned by Vincenzo Cammarata was featured in Great Blogs of Fire, the popular serial posting on The Buzz Bin by Larissa Fair and Geoff Livingston, author of the excellent Now is Gone: A primer on New Media for Executives and Entrepreneurs.

Stewart Mader shows us eight key cultural drivers to wiki success. He discusses what attitudes make an innovation oriented organization a “wikible” workplace or – in other words – a workplace where Wiki really works in an effective way?

Thanks Geoff and Larissa!

Mark Ghosh of Weblog Tools Collection has a good post on peoples’ motivation for commenting on blogs. It got me thinking about the conversation here:

Have you commented recently? Not commented yet? What usually motivates you to post a comment here? I really enjoy reading and responding to the comments you all post, so please keep ‘em coming!

Mike Kavis writes an excellent blog on his efforts to bring enterprise 2.0 into his organization:

I have been blogging about my Web 2.0 experiments at work and recommended that we should just do Web 2.0 instead of trying to justify it.

With so many open source solutions available for wikis and blogs, the best way to get traction with Web 2.0 technologies is to casually bring it in house, plant the seeds, and let it grow like weeds.

You can have a large amount of people using these tools quicker then you can try to sell the value to an older generation of decision makers who are not familiar enough with the tools to understand the value. [Read more]

More worldwide praise for 21 Days of Wiki Adoption –
this time from Romania, the Netherlands, and the US:

Sara Bocaneanu, who blogs about knowledge management in Romania, writes:

My favorite point so far?

Don’t have a pilot wiki with just early adopters… People remain skeptical even if the early adopters are gushing. If, instead, you use a mixed group with some regular users and some skeptics, people will pay attention to what they’re saying! [Read more]

Forrester analyst Erica Driver just published this Web 2.0 Framework. It puts the underlying “plumbing” (Flash, XML, AJAX, mashups), tools we recognize (blogs, wikis, etc.) and behaviors into a “big picture” visual map: (click on it for details)

This video is excellent. Betsy, a student of my friend Vicki Davis in Georgia, asked students and teachers to describe wikis, blogs, and Web 2.0. Guess who know what the tools were, and gave the best explanations of their uses?

(via Milt Haynes)