Wiki Works - the workhorse of any social intranet
involvement, wiki Sunday, October 26, 2008Blogs are cool, social bookmarking sites are neat, but I really think wikis are the big news in the intranet 2.0 space.
At our company, we launched a wiki last fall (almost a year ago now...wow!) and it has mostly become the internal wikipedia. The wiki contains a lot of glossary terms pulled from all over the company from different business unit's websites. This has made it much simpler to find what the specialized terminology of our business means.
However I want more! I have been using the wiki for all my intranet documentation, support lists, application change logs, etc. But how do I get other people interested?
I see one problem with our setup, a slightly modified version of Screwturn Wiki, has no security. Sure it tracks who wrote what, but I would love to have a bit more partitioning, like the Workspaces concept in Socialtext's workspace concept, allowing separate work areas for projects teams, wikipedias, and onboarding, to name a few.
So what are your thoughts for wikis in the social intranet?
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February 10, 2009 at 5:06 AM
In my opinion wiki is a very good program, am I right when I say this is a part of Lotus Quickr?
Wiki in the social intranet sounds to me very good. Just look to wiki as it is Post-It. Finds, thoughts and experiences could be wright down in the community which is available to some employees, whom can learn from it.
Wiki in the social intranet is not gonna be the new encyclopedie, but it could be very important for a big project to inform everybody who is bothered by it..
February 11, 2009 at 11:19 AM
I am not familiar with any Lotus products so I am not sure if they have a wiki system.
I love the idea of your "Post-It." Kind of a one stop place to do knowledge dumps. We can really use that in our space. We have a few people that have been with the business for many years and they are our "go to" guys, but when they are out, it is like re-inventing the wheel.
We have also used the wiki for one company wide project. However it was a single page with links to word and excel docs...not in my opinion using the full power.