Since I’m in Australia this week, the Friday Flux will be hitting your feed reader a few hours earlier than usual. This week, a post from September 2006 that looks at how a wiki can streamline group collaboration: “Often groups collaborate on a document by “pushing” it out to each member - emailing a file […]
The Friday Flux (from Down Under): Wiki Use - Group Authoring
November 16th, 2007How a poor HR policy on Facebook at work can affect wiki use
November 6th, 2007In Facing up to Facebook (PDF), the UK Trades Union Congress offers some advice to HR staff regarding employee use of social networks at work: “Employees have a right to a personal life, and provided they do not breach reasonable conduct guidelines, employers should respect this…A responsible way to handle this is for employers to […]
So what do you seek - documents or knowledge?
October 31st, 2007That’s the closing line from a recent piece by John Rotenstein which looks at the mindset necessary to use a wiki effectively. John uses the example of the person in the audience of my talk in Sydney back in July who asked how to use the wiki for document management. With a wiki, it’s not […]
Fear of “looking stupid” or “doing something wrong” on the wiki
September 22nd, 2007Here’s another one from my meetings this week: a couple of people asked me about how to contribute to a wiki without looking stupid. This is a question I get quite often when meeting with organizations to talk wiki adoption. Some people will say that the biggest obstacle keeping them from participating on the wiki […]
Building a new intranet at Janssen-Cilag using a wiki
September 19th, 2007Nathan Wallace of Janssen-Cilag has written an excellent case study on their wiki adoption, which Bill Ives picked up on the FastForward Blog. Janssen-Cilag is a pharmaceutical research company with employees in Australia and New Zealand, and is one of 250 operating companies of Johnson & Johnson, the New Jersey-based maker of pharmaceutical, medical, […]