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Wiki Spotlight
Collaboration at work 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).	A knowledge revolution that has hardly begun June 26, 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." Refreshing to see others with the hopeful vision, nice work Ana Kronschnabel and Thomas Rawlings	Businesses in a world of wiki June 23, 2006 This article from Asbury Park Press makes an interesting point about how companies will have to manage their PR in the "free-wheeling online world of Wikipedia." It seems to me the writer either doesn't understand wiki or is just choosing to focus on a large website, Wikipedia. What is more interesting to me is what companies and governmental organizations are going to have to do, or not have to do, in a "free-wheeling online world of" wiki. They mention Eli Lilly and Co. and the edits to that page on Wikipedia, but what I can imagine is companies having to figure out what to do with an entire wiki dedicated to the pharmaceutical industry or even to Eli Lilly and Co. itself. This forces transparency. This forces companies to change the way the operate their business. (for example see what SourceWatch is doing in terms of think tanks and the like.) Of course this all centers on the idea that people will embrace the simplistic self organization of wiki, which I excited to see. (see Why wiki is good for work)