Joshua-Michéle Ross writes that while there’s no shortage of good ideas to address the decline of the newspaper industry, those ideas can’t go anywhere until media companies address the larger problem hindering their progress: institutional resistance to change. John Puchalla of Moody’s Investors Service published a report in June that illustrates this in terms of…
This is from Matt Wiseley of EditMe, a company that offers an excellent combination of a powerful hosted wiki and affordable professional services to customize it to meet your needs. I wrote a few months ago about keeping the chaff out of your site with a regular Wiki Spring Cleaning. This is just one in…
Gerardo Méndez, quality manager at Geometrica, wrote to tell me about the company’s effort to use a wiki to document their new quality management system. Geometrica designs, manufactures, and installs domes and space frame structures for sports venues, environmental protection, houses of worship, industrial plants, and educational assembly halls. The company is based in Houston,…
Earlier this week, a 10 year-old Sussex Spaniel won Best in Show at the Westminster Kennel Club. Stump, as he’s known informally (his official name is Ch. Clussexx Three D Grinchy Glee), made history twice on Tuesday night – he became both the first Sussex Spaniel and the oldest dog to win Best in Show…
In Slashing by Necessity, Marci Alboher talks about building a slash career – one that involves multiple different roles. A slash career can be a full-time job with some part-time or freelance work on the side, or a combination of part-time, contract, or freelance work that can be as part time or full-time as you…
November 4, 2008. This is a moment to remember. I remember wondering when I would see that day that America would have its first black president. Now, this day lives in history as one of the most important in American history – not just modern American history, but the entirety of our nation’s history. “An…
In Chapter 2 of Wikipatterns, I outline the key ways that a collaboration platform inside your organization differs from open platforms on the web, and review ways to use a wiki, including project management, product development, knowledge base, event planning, intranet, meeting management, blogging, and external collaboration. No matter how you plan to use the…
Comparing China and India for the BBC program Global Business, Harvard Professor Tarun Khanna described information flow in China as “noise-free and biased” vs. “noisy and unbiased” in India. Both approaches have their advantages and drawbacks, so I started thinking about these advantages and drawbacks as they apply to business. For China, the main advantage…
Barack Obama speaks at a rally in Kenya. Tony Karumba / AFP-Getty Images Newsweek correspondents Richard Wolffe, Michael Hirsch, Erika Kinetz, and Sarah Kliff look at Barack Obama’s early years in Jakarta, Indonesia, and the weeks he spent travelling through Pakistan as a college student, as examples of a foreign experience far different from the…
Arielle Pandolph, a graduate student in the College of Information Studies at Florida State University, contacted me to discuss wikis for a course project. She’s currently a student in Dr. Lisa Tripp’s Design and Production of Media Resources course. Arielle says: Most of the students in the program will use the degree to become librarians…
Industry Week reports on the results of a study on wikis in business by the Society for Information Management’s Advanced Practices Council (APC): When considering use of wikis, CIOs should keep in mind that in reality, a large number of companies may already have employees using wikis for work purposes without the authority to do…
The press release for the Wikipatterns book is now out on BusinessWire and PRWeb. One site that picked up the release is DayLife, which impressed me because it prominently displays quotes extracted from the release itself. From a reader’s perspective, I can imagine how seeing a compelling quote might grab attention and encourage a look…
The following is a guest post from Patrick Berry and Scott Jungling of CSU Chico. First in a three part series this week: Axiom: People want what they cannot have. It was a familiar story: a new technology arrives on campus,
I’ve been talking with Mark and his work is fascinating, so I invited him to write a few guest posts for Using Wiki in Education. Here’s a bit about him: Mark Bell is a researcher, computer programmer and father. He specializes in social networks in virtual