Wiki Adoption in Organizations

I love the slideshow from the good folks from  Atlassian Software www.atlassian.com.  It gives me another opportunity to thank Jeffrey S. Walker again for donating the t-shirts that are in high demand.

There was a really useful discussion thread on the NTEN list for requests about wiki software and summarized on the blog.   I contributed my two cents about wiki adoption off the top of my head and Rob did a great summary of my advice and also from others -- so I'm posting here for the next time I want to think about wiki adoption.

In addition to specific software, there were some general tips and considerations discussed:

• Wikis are good for creating a knowledge base or encyclopedia
• Wordpress or some other CMS might be better suited for a collaborative website project, or Google Apps or Zoho for simple collaboration
• Since wikis are so "free form," a "gardener" or someone dedicated to guiding users and cleaning up may be necessary
• A facilitator may also be useful
• Sandboxes can be used for people to introduce themselves and get used to the wiki
• Wikipatterns has some useful practices as well as some to avoid
• An interesting examination of the "ten best wiki communities"
• More general tips and a case study of wiki adoption

Comments

[Laura Whitehead]

Hi Beth, a wiki-tastic day! Posted earlier about Wiki's myself and now updated it again to include a link to this post too!