Future Changes is Stewart Mader. Stewart is a recognized leader in wiki adoption and use in organizations. He has led or advised enterprise wiki deployments in Fortune 500 companies, R&D organizations, law firms, nonprofit organizations, universities, and small and mid-size companies.

He has written two books: Wikipatterns and Using Wiki in Education, and created the widely-used Wikipatterns.com community for sharing business wiki adoption strategies.

• Resume – key skills, experience, employment history
• Press – interviews, articles I’ve written, and press mentions.

The key to a successful wiki in your organization is effective adoption. Give people guidance to set their goals, training to get comfortable with the wiki, and time to build it into their daily practice. If they’re pleased with the results, they’ll catalyze further adoption by spreading the word to their peers.

Consulting engagements include:

• Consultation with your team on project scope and timeframe
• Elicit technical and line of business requirements
• Vendor analysis and selection
• Validate existing or develop new deployment strategy
• Identify critical wiki & collaboration integration issues and recommend solutions
• Provide technical recommendations for integration and performance optimization
• Define content structure and workspace structure for quick access to content via Search, A-Z, Categories, and Listing
• Develop templates for common uses
• Develop procedures for seeding the wiki with content
• Define workspace request procedure, naming conventions, and data retention policy
• Define roles and permissions, and integration with external account management (LDAP, Active Directory)
• Q&A on uses, tips, best practices
• Assist in choosing 3rd party add-on software and plugins to add specific functionality to the wiki
• Project status updates with stakeholders and senior leadership

Testimonials

“Stewart articulates the benefits of wikis clearly & comprehensively – he’s the voice of experience.” - Audience Member – Stanford Tech Briefing

“There’s not many humans on the planet that know more about wikis than Stewart Mader. Wherever folks are talking about wiki technology, you’ll find Mader, explaining how wikis work, how to get folks to use them, how to govern them, and how to use them to solve various real-world challenges.” - Scott Abel – Organizer, Web Content & DocTrain Conferences

“Stewart was instrumental in helping Jay and I…If you are even thinking about wikis, go buy his book.” - Nate Nash – Management Consultant, BearingPoint

“Very simple, very effective, straight to the point…plenty of helpful tips on how to deploy successfully wikis within the enterprise. Just brilliant!” - Luis Suarez – Social Software Evangelist, IBM