socialmedian: HOW TO: Use Wikis for Business Projects

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Jul 01, 2009

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Jeff Hobbs is Director of Engineering at ActiveState and works on Workspace and dynamic languages. He blogs occasionally at blogs.activestate.com.

One of the best web tools available to businesses for enabling teamwork and collaboration is the wiki. Few things speak more to staying in the flow of one’s work than just clicking “Edit This Page” where you see something that needs to be written or re-written. Though Wikis have been around since the 90s, their potential for business collaboration has made them more popular in the business world over the past few years.

While a wiki can let project documentation grow organically as a project unfolds, it is like any tool and needs to be used the right way to get the most out of it. If you’re thinking about using a wiki in your team’s toolkit for the first time, keeping a few points in mind will help everyone get up and running without tripping over the changes that the wiki way brings to project documentation.

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Rogersdc,

Jul 02, 2009

An interesting article that addresses some very simple ideas to increase use of wikis in the enterprise. Definitely misses the mark when describing the value of wikis to business users.