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Mickey Uses a Wiki

The June issue of Fast Company profiles Disney executive vice president of digital media Albert Cheng, and how a wiki is at the center of his 20 month old digital media department's reinvention of TV distribution. The article discusses how the wiki started: His team didn't ask permission to create the internal Web site, with staff profiles and a section called "Cool Stuff We've Done This Year." They just did it. And truth be told, Cheng is rather proud of that. The project captures what his 20-month-old

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Video: Wikis in Plain English is an excellent wiki primer

Peter Caputa of WhizSpark and the PC4Media blog and Brady Forrest of O'Reilly Radar write about Lee and Sachi LeFever's video Wikis in Plain English, which does an excellent job of explaining a wiki in comparison to email. The video uses the scenario of four friends who need to coordinate an event - in this case a camping trip - and demonstrates how, "email is not good at coordinating and organizing a group's input." The video goes on to explain how a wiki lets each user edit the text of a web

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Bienvenue RoCoCo!

I'm in Montreal for RoCoCo 2007, counterpart conference to the RecentChangesCamp held in Portland, Oregon back in February. Atlassian is a primary sponsor and I'll be leading a session on Wikipatterns. Like RecentChangesCamp, RoCoCo uses the Open Space meeting style, where the conference schedule is agreed upon by participants the morning the conference starts. Why the name RoCoCo? "The Montreal RecentChangesCamp will be Bilingual as we expect participants from Europe, Canada and US. In order to

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8 Ways to use a wiki

Product documentation — collaboratively write it in-house, then let customers add to it as they use the product. Collaboratively write news releases — A great way to make sure that a news release has input from product managers, marketing staff, etc. and can be quickly updated as necessary before release. Knowledge base — Keep common FAQs and support questions on a wiki so they can easily be updated with new information. Meetings — Instead of emailing agendas that can't be

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Chronicling the introduction of a wiki

Simon Mittag has written a blog post chronicling his work to introduce wiki in his organisation. This is a great first-person account for anyone who is in the process of starting a wiki (or just thinking about it) to read. In 4 Weeks Of Introducing A Wiki Into An Organisation Mittag starts by saying, “I have a great new job. Well it's not really my official job, but I do it anyway — I'm trying to get a wiki adopted by our organisation.

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