Back in November, Andy McAfee shared a great wiki case study from Avenue A | Razorfish. They adapted MediaWiki to meet their needs. Leveraging open source, a great approach for a company that builds custom Intranets.
But Jeff Walker of Atlassian Confluence, a commercial wiki vendor, disagrees:
The biggest challenge that most managers or work team leaders face when they decide to use a wiki is getting their coworkers to use it too. Some organizations have been extremely effective at getting mass participation on their wikis, others have simply failed altogether.
Eurekster released a set of Web 2.0 upgrades to its Swicki (search plus wiki) collaborative search engine to make search results more participatory and personalized.
The new "Community Features" allow swicki users to vote in favor of or against results that appear on the page. Or, if something's missing that should be there, users can write their own search result and add it to the index.
On Friday, the Utah House of Representatives passed the first Universal School Voucher bill in the nation.
The bill is destined to become law according John Fund in the Wall Street Journal and was also the first real test of wikifying the legislative process.
The last chapter of Don Tapscott's new book, Wikinomics, invites readers to write it: "Join us in peer producing the definitive guide to the twenty-first-century corporation on www.wikinomics.com."
Linda Zimmer, the driving force behind the Business Communicators of Second Life group, has launched the SL Business Communicators Wiki:
Today at Le Web 3 in Paris we launched Socialtext Unplugged, the offline wiki.
I love that someone updated the ScobleShow Wiki of all my archives with images.
When going through the process of opening Socialtext, we need to choose a license that is a fit for a commercial open source company. Commercial open source strikes the balance between freedom and profit motive, and the license you choose becomes a contract not just for the company, but a community.
Once again Adobe is using the Labs site to release new software in development - this time a ColdFusion toolkit that integrates with WebSphere Portal Server.
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