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Wiki Farm Companies: Which are Your Fastest Growing Communities?
Martin Cleaver, Blended Perspectives. Toronto, Canada.
Wiki farm: a website that offers to the public a sectioned-off set of wiki pages
It’s evident that Wiki Farms, such as PBWiki, Wetpaint, Wikia and WikiSpaces are growing rapidly. Many content producers don’t have the resources or desire to install their own wiki platform behind the firewall or they want to dabble first, so these sites act as great places to experiment while allowing someone else to manage the content.
Typical users are professors at universities and colleges, who assign their students homework on them, towns, many not for profits and groups of knowledge specialists (such as legal, medical and accounting) who have the need to share effort or align on approach. The result is these sites act as wellpools into which effort is gravitated and content collects around seeds of common interest.
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Thanks for all the WikiSym Poster Submissions. Deadline extension: June 30th
Martin Cleaver Toronto, Canada
Well, the deadline for posters has just passed, and for sure we have some interesting titles!
I won’t tell you who submitted what because until we’ve read them and made commitments I can’t promise they will materialize. But, I will go so far as to whet your appetite!
- Javascript-standalone, extensions for Firefox, new visuals to represent changes, Printability, Collaborative Translation, Citation extensions
- Wiki intranets, Open Assessment, Maturity Models, Innovation Processes, Social Semantics, Analyzing large wikis
- Specifics for the Heath Sector
Notable, was that in addition to research contributed by our university crowd, are the companies submitting works to WikiSym Demos and Posters. These include: BT Group, Bosch, Microsoft, Vodaphone, and Sun – their offerings are certainly testament that cutting-edge firms are breaking ground with wikis.
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Interview: George Landow
George Landow, Professor of Art and History at Brown University, will be one of the two keynote speakers at WikiSym 2008.
We interviewed him by e-mail to get more information on how he became involved with wikis and web-related issues, as well as information on his point of view on wikis and society nowadays.
Q: How did an English and History of Art Professor get involved with web and wikis?
Business Intelligence? Competitive Intelligence? WikiSym is Where You Need to Be.
Martin Cleaver MSc MBA. Blended Perspectives, Toronto.
To improve business performance and to out-compete, an organization needs not only advantageous information but also to act upon it. Organizations that depend on a few key staff to gather information to help inform strategists who then “tell” the “workers” what to do will be at a disadvantage compared to those that “crowd source” to collect and consolidate ideas, observations and plans from hundreds of people who will have to execute that strategy.
Few companies have a shortage of information, for we all have Google. The issue is too much, unconsolidated, unactionable information.
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Integration Wikis? Application Wikis? Semantic Wikis?
Martin Cleaver. Blended Perspectives, Toronto Canada
What makes your wiki technology special? Do you build encyclopedias or applications?
While wikis are best known as a means to co-create knowledge, our industry is heating up and progress is being made in all sorts of technically interesting areas. If your organization is interested in cutting-edge wiki functionality, you’ll likely want to come to WikiSym.
Content
Wikis primary involve humans adding and pushing content around. Knowledge becomes profound when the most universally useful ideas are presented first. Do you have tools that surface content that relate to the roots of knowledge? Perhaps you have or have dreamt of innovations at the editing layer to shuffle content between pages?
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Call to Wiki Vendors: Come and Display Your Wiki Software!
By Martin Cleaver MSc MBA, Blended Perspectives
The nice thing about the WikiSym community is that we, between us, have seen far more variants on the technology than can be quickly ascertained from short summaries.
With such a dizzying array of wiki technologies out there, it can be difficult for companies to pick one. Many WikiSym attendees have gained extensive experience about how to weight the factors relevant for a particular corporations. So, organizations wishing to build on their knowledge (or get a grounding on wikis) will find attending WikiSym a useful starting point to pick a platform, as you hear from real users with real stories. Come and ask us the right questions and you will save yourselves time and money!
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WikiSym Participants: Skype Chat Channel
By Martin Cleaver, Blended Perspectives, Toronto, Canada
Coming to WikiSym? Want to talk to others who’ll be there? Come join and bookmark our WikiSym Skype Chat Channel!
Over the next few months those at the conference will have the opportunity to discuss the goals and accomplishments in the run up to the event as well as general chat about wikis and their use in organisations.
You’ll need a Skype account and software (http://www.skype.com). If for any reason you have difficulty getting in add me (mrjcleaver on skype) and let me know you need in on WikiSym chat.
Wikis as Intranets: Come Celebrate Your Success!
By Martin Cleaver, Blended Perspectives, Toronto, Canada
The Wiki Symposium has always had a strong research focus, and I think we can all be proud that academic papers such as the WikiSym survey for usage of Wikis was adopted as the standard text used by Gartner research. Now in it’s fourth year, WikiSym is sure to continue promote other such rigorous studies.
My own role in WikiSym 2008 conference is to look after Demos and Posters. My vision is to see this become a destination in its own right, and in particular to add appeal to businesses and communities.
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Submission System is Now Open!
Due May 10th:
- Research papers and practitioner reports: submit to cyberchair
- Workshops and panels: submit to workshopsandpanels@wikisym.org
- Tutorials: submit to tutorials@wikisym.org
Due June 11th:
- Demos and posters: submit to demosandposters@wikisym.org
- DoctoralSpace proposals: submit to chair@wikisym.org
- WikiFest submissions: submit to wikifest@wikisym.org