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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>As there have been several questions regarding
'wiki' over the last couple of days, I found this helpful earlier in the year
when posted by Michael Herman,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>jjudy </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>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><BR>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><BR>michaelh<BR><BR>--<BR></DIV>
<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><BR><PRE class=moz-signature cols="$mailwrapcol">--
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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