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As part of my MBA in Technology Management with the Open University Business School, Milton Keynes, UK, I have been researching the use and management of wikis in business. During my research I set up a research wiki to record various elements of the research, including the survey, interviews, findings, conclusions and recommendations. You can […]

Wikis - Making Sense out of a House of Shards(c) Martin@Cleaver.org2 December 2004
A wiki can be a posting board, knowledge base, project tracker, photo album, and discussion forum. It’s all of these, yet none alone does it justice. Even for the most experienced, a Wiki can be infuriatingly difficult to classify!
From a linguistic perspective, the […]

Some of my readers will know me from presenting with Bill Ives at KMWorld on the topic of Blogs and Wikis. Well, Bill, Cindy and I have teamed with IBM to provide a training version for corporations and the public.
Here’s an extract from our marketing literature:

Blogs and Wikis in Business: A New Training Course!
Blogs are […]

Innovators & Influencers: From Web 2.0 To Enterprise 2.0 (Digg) http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=196602773
Lots of CIOs pay lip service to Enterprise 2.0, the sometimes esoteric movement toward using consumer technologies like blogs and wikis to create a more collaborative business environment. JP Rangaswami not only is driving those Web processes internally as CIO of BT Global Services, but […]

Does your organization communicate effectively? Drawing from the BBC’s report on an American police force decision to stop using 10-4 and 10-20 type codewords (I was surprised to hear these are incompatible across different counties), I draw a parallel of how wikis can generate the common linguistic ground needed for purposeful communication.
The BBC reported today […]

Having used the Open Source TWiki since 2001, and for about a year used a commercial installation of Confluence, I am always looking to cross-contextualize my understanding of the two products.
This report compares Confluence and TWiki from the point of view of pasting of HTML content.
I made this report as I was surprised by what […]

Great post by Business Two Zero: talking about Management Styles fundementally facilitative of emergence rather than imposing of process, and structure.
However, I was pleased that the first hit was for Kathy Sierra’s piece from earlier in the year. She highlights the emerging management style, influenced by web 2.0 thinking, is more community based, […]

In his post, The relevance of knowledge management today, says about Knowledge Management:
The terminology and tools have substantially moved on, yet the fundamental problems are not new. As such, the wheel does not need to be reinvented, and those who have been in the knowledge management space can apply their expertise with enormous relevance.
Ross Dawson […]

The wiki market is really starting to pick up, as the word gets out as to how profound the collaboration paradigm wiki is.
Stories from early adopters such as the investment bank Dresner Kleinwort show major accomplishments in getting transformational change in a collaborative culture to take hold. Major financial institutions such as Citibank and […]

Wikis are typical playing grounds for today’s 20-something age group. For the last 10 years this ‘myspace generation’ has been acculturated in a totally different set of social norms powered by collaborative technology. As these people take their places in corporations we are seeing totally different possibilities. Being able to quickly collaborate with anyone across […]