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How to use wiki for your projects

09-Jul-2006:

via O'Reilly Network comes a good basic Wiki 101 article:

"This article was written using a wiki, as were most of the 100 hacks in our book, Mind Hacks." ... "They're messy, immediate, and a powerful way of sharing thinking space with your collaborators.

Once you've used a wiki for a project, you'll find it hard to go back to regular methods. You'll find yourself using wiki syntax in emails, and your own WikiWords in conversation." article link

Yell threatens to shut down Yellowikis

05-Jul-2006

From Wikinews comes this story:

Yell, the worlds biggest yellow pages publisher, today threatened to shut down Yellowikis, the wiki based yellow pages directory.

They accused Yellowikis co-founders Paul Youlten and Rosa Blaus (his 15 year-old daughter) of "misrepresentation", "passing off" and suggested that using the name Yellowikis could "constitute an 'instrument of fraud.'" read more

Collaboration at work

27-Jun-2006

Wirearchy quotes CNET News.com's Martin LaMonica's story about collaboration and wikis:

"This way of capturing collaborative wisdom, collective knowledge is a different take on knowledge management, which was fundamentally flawed" (said IBM Lotus Division general manager Michael Rhodin). comment

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+via O'Reilly Network comes a good basic {{tag|Wiki 101}} article:
+: "This article was written using a wiki, as were most of the 100 hacks in our book, Mind Hacks." ... "They're messy, immediate, and a powerful way of sharing thinking space with your collaborators.
+: Once you've used a wiki for a project, you'll find it hard to go back to regular methods. You'll find yourself using wiki syntax in emails, and your own WikiWords in conversation." <small>[[RecentChanges.info/How_to_use_wiki_for_your_projects|article link]]</small>
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-: ''"This way of capturing collaborative wisdom, collective knowledge is a different take on knowledge management, '''which was fundamentally flawed'''" (said IBM Lotus Division general manager Michael Rhodin). <small>[[RecentChanges.info/Collaboration at work|comment]]
+: ''"This way of capturing collaborative wisdom, collective knowledge is a different take on knowledge management, '''which was fundamentally flawed'''" (said IBM Lotus Division general manager Michael Rhodin). <small>[[RecentChanges.info/Collaboration at work|comment]]</small>
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-=== A knowledge revolution that has hardly begun ===
-''26-Jun-2006''
-An excellent article, The Independent: New Media: Who are the real winners now we've all gone Wiki-crazy?
-: ''What wiki does for its users is what blogging did for web publishing: it provides an easy, quick, means to an end. In the words of Ward Cunningham, an author and an inventor of wiki technology: "Wiki does for knowledge what the assembly line does for material."' <small>[[RecentChanges.info/A knowledge revolution that has hardly begun|read more]]</small>
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