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Larry Cannell recently wrote a piece for Collaboration Loop called I Hate Files, where he argues that reliance on files makes information harder to find & use: “I don’t even want files. What I want is the information stored in a file…I have been thinking about files and documents lately and I have come to […]

Penny Edwards discusses some of the data and conversations on wiki growth she gathered for Managing Wikis in Business. The post is well worth reading - here’s her summary of some important conclusions: “…managers should be more involved in the adoption and growth of wikis by giving people time to become accustomed to, experiment with, […]

Today, I’ll be joined by Anne Goldenberg, Ted Ernst, Mark Bernstein, François Beauregard, and Dirk Riehle on a panel called, “Wiki Patterns: What Works and What Doesn’t?” at WikiSym 2007. We’ll share & discuss the best ways people have found so far for stimulating collaboration in organizations and communities. Some of those ideas […]

By now, you’ve probably seen the announcement that Microsoft and Atlassian made yesterday morning about the SharePoint Connector for Confluence. So why is this important from a wiki adoption and use perspective? It frees organizations from the “One size fits all” mentality and enables them to let people choose the best tool for their work […]

Robert Scoble stopped by Atlassian’s San Francisco office today, and just interviewed me about Wikipatterns.com for his kyte channel: watch the video. Robert interviewed me using a Nokia N95, and it immediately uploads the video to kyte: within seconds after recording the video, we were all gathered around my laptop watching it. Kyte is the […]

Back in July, I encouraged readers to contribute to a survey on wiki use in business being conducted by Penny Edwards for her MBA dissertation at The Open University Business School. The results of that research are out now in Managing Wikis in Business, on Penny’s blog. The wiki where she has documented the research […]

Over on the Atlassian Blog, my colleague John Rotenstein has written an excellent post exploring the differences between Wikipedia and wikis as used in organizations. In Wikipedia is not the real world, John looks at a series of misconceptions about wikis, such as “It’ll be vandalised!”, “I don’t want people editing whatever they want!”, “A […]

This is the second in a series on wiki adoption, based on my visits with organizations in the midst of wiki adoption. Part 1 is here. Once your group starts using the wiki, be firm about making sure people don’t drift back to earlier means of collaboration. For example, if you used to send out […]