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!

I believe this very strongly, and I think it’s one of the most critical cultural changes that will determine which organizations thrive and which ones lose relevance.

Bill Ives echoes this point in his summary of J.P. Rangaswami’s presentation at the FASTForward ’08 conference. Rengaswami talked of the “new polarization” in organizations, or how the customer gains control.

The fights have traditionally been within the IT departments. Now they have moved outside.

The first polarization is expertise. People of his and my generation believe experience is necessary for real innovation. We need to stop rejecting youth.

The second is participation. Now people can participate in much more than possible. He gave as an example, the numerous donations in small amounts that Obama has raised for the US primary campaign through the web on his way to a record month for total contributions ever.

The third dimension is time. He quoted Rupert Murdoch that fast is the new good. Now we have stuff in Beta all the time. JP said that IT has to get over these three concepts to succeed. Now the users have already breached the IT wall and running around inside the fort. It is too late to keep them out.

Since you can’t copy and paste text (yet) on iPhone (necessary for getting links into blog posts unless you want to type them by hand), I think the new Prologue theme released by WordPress is a great interface for iPhone blogging. Prologue’s interface clearly encourages short, Twitter-style updates.

Furthermore, with the growing awareness of the need for Data Portability, I’d like to use Prologue to keep my status updates on my own domain, and feed them to Twitter using RSS. This might even reduce the load that seems to cause the timeout errors I see multiple times a day from Twitterrific. [Read more]

Chris Brogan explains how social media can improve the velocity, flexibility and economy of your business:

We aren’t talking about the marketing department. We aren’t equipping PR professionals. This isn’t a new set of tools for launching campaigns. These are tools to improve interaction, and they are incredibly powerful and game-changing when you consider how much less impact on traditional business resources most of these solutions have.

According to a report published today by Gartner:

By 2010, end-user preferences will decide as much as half of all software, hardware and services acquisitions made by IT. The rise of the Internet and the ubiquity of the browser interface have made computing approachable and individuals are now making decisions about technology for personal and business use. [Read more]

Dave Atkins of Westwood, Masachusetts wrote last week to tell me about a post he’s written on Using a Wiki to Improve Town Governance. Many people aren’t involved in their local governments because there are too many barriers to participation. Dave’s description of the barriers gets right to the heart of it: [Read more]

Beth Simone Noveck, Director of the Peer to Patent Project, has written an article on Wiki Government for Democracy Journal.

She opens with that line above above, from George Bernard Shaw. It’s powerful, and it was said all the way back in 1911¹. Now that’s not saying that professions are inherently bad, or that they shouldn’t exist. It’s really suggesting that lay people have just as much to offer as experts. [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]

“A survey of the attitudes of 13 to 17 year olds, commissioned by the British IT firm Logicalis, reveals 81 per cent have already thought about their work/life balance, while more than half (55%) expect to use instant messaging in the workplace to communicate with colleagues. Many also expect to be able to continue using other web 2.0 technologies they’ve grown up with – such as wikis, social networks & blogs.” [Read more]

Engage customers who travel to or live in these cities to help write the guides using a carefully moderated wiki. JetBlue recently launched Blue City Guides for five cities: San Francisco, New York, Orlando, Pittsburgh, and Houston. The guides include essential information, promotions and fare sales, and blogs and photos from the crewmembers who [Read more]