I am working on an update to a work based wiki and I was wondering how many people currently use something similarly wiki based for:
- Information sharing
- Project team collaboration
- As a knowledge base for case studies, templates and more
- As a forum for questions and answers
The big question, of course, is how to encourage participation? I’m thinking that the build it and they will come approach is not going to take off.
Jon
October 21st, 2008 at 10:36 am
well, we’ve been thinking about this for a while now at TMS. we’ve got a pretty clunky intranet which serves a purpose but has a few quirks every now and again - but it’s not really used for sharing knowledge etc. mainly as a novelty news area of sorts.
wiki’s are one of the things we’re looking at, globally, to bring some kind of social/web2.0 tool into the workplace.
this is both for education of the audience (our colleagues) and to create new ways of working.
Groundswell, by Charlene Li, is a good place to read for this kind of information - and how to apply it to your own problem/company.
Suw Charman is also a good advocate of social software in the workplace.