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hi all, this item (below) posted recently at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.globalchicago.net/weblog">http://www.globalchicago.net/weblog</a>
...and more examples of wiki used for ost proceedings and followup work at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.globalchicago.net/garden">http://www.globalchicago.net/garden</a><br>
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also, are we still hoping to gather this weekend to post OS in Education
stories at the <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.OpenSpaceWorld.NET">http://www.OpenSpaceWorld.NET</a> wiki webspace?<br>
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michaelh<br>
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<p> <b><i>The World Beyond Email... is Wiki, Wiki, Wiki!</i></b><br>
<br>
...today in <a href="http://www.reveries.com">Reveries Magazine's</a> "Cool
News of the Day"</p>
<blockquote><i>Collaborative Wiki. "E-mail is a tremendously overloaded tool,"
says Gary Boone of Accenture Technology Labs, explaining part of the appeal
of "wiki," as reported by Michael Totty in The Wall Street Journal. Wiki,
as you may know -- or wiki-wiki -- is Hawaiian for "quick," but it is also
the name of a type of web page that is gaining favor as a way to help "companies
and work teams to trade ideas, share intelligence and track projects." While
wiki web pages look pretty much like any other, the difference is that it
is easy for any visitor to "add new material .. or change what is already
there." All the changes are tracked and saved so nothing is ever lost.<br>
<br>
[Wiki is being used] to create an online encyclopedia at <a
href="http://www.wikipedia.org">www.wikipedia.org</a>. However, its simplicity
and low-cost (<a href="http://www.usemod.com">available as shareware</a>)
has made it attractive commercially, in fact some are comparing its potential
popularity to that of instant messaging. "The disadvantage of not having the
sophistication of more elaborate tools is outweighed by the ease of using
it," says Gary Boone. <br>
<br>
A company calledStata Labs, for example, is using a wiki "to manage its customer-relations
program. As customers e-mail requests for new features or relate problems,
the information is added to the wiki, where it can be viewed by developers
in India, or by Stata's chief executive in San Mateo, California. Stata's
vice president of product management, Andy Stack, notes the advantages versus
e-mail. "With e-mail," he says, a lot ... gets trapped in one-off conversations,"
whereas the wiki "has the ability to capture ... side conversations and make
them available to all others." <br>
<br>
Accenture's Gary Boone meanwhile says his group "uses wiki pages to organize
reports on bugs and requests for new features in the software they're developing,"
as well as to post "speaker schedules, lab announcements and tech-related
news." The wiki, he says "may represent a sweet spot between nothing or just
e-mail and ... more elaborate systems." </i></blockquote>
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Michael Herman
Michael Herman Associates
300 West North Avenue #1105
Chicago IL 60610 USA
(312) 280-7838
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.michaelherman.com">http://www.michaelherman.com</a> - consulting & publications
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.globalchicago.net">http://www.globalchicago.net</a> - laboratory & playground
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.openspaceworld.org">http://www.openspaceworld.org</a> - worldwide open space
...inviting organization into movement
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