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I arrived last night in Montreal for the Wiki Symposium at OOPSLA after a brief trip to the UK. http://ws2007.wikisym.org/space/start is the wiki.
Come join us on IRC channel #wikisym on freenode.net.
I’ll be running an Open Space session on http://WikiConsulting.com/ looking to hear how to quickly add value to our field.
Today I’m wearing a grey with […]

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 […]

40,000 Minds are better than 1: A case analysis of idea management at Bell Canada (Weds 24 Jan, 11:30am-12)
Meaghan McKnight and Rex Lee - BELL SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGY
Rex and Meaghan from Bell Canada talked through some pretty exciting Enterprise 2.0 internal projects at Bell Canada. The one that got my attention the most was ID-ah!, […]

Brad Neuberg just announced:

HyperScope is a high-performance thought processor that enables you to navigate, view, and link to documents in sophisticated ways. It’s the brainchild of Doug Engelbart, the inventor of hypertext and the mouse, and is the first step towards his larger vision for an Open HyperdocumentSystem.

Hyperscope mocks up the vision of Paper Airplane […]

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, […]

It seems to me that there exists many different types of people doing “wiki consulting”. They differ by:
Background/goal:

Some are technologists, doing installs, writing plugins, etc.
Some are cultural anthropologists or statistians employed to provide insight on social interactions
Some are management looking to reduce the costs of running the enterprise
Some are HR types, looking to get better […]