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How do you grow wiki adoption? – 11 July 2007, Sydney, Australia

Wikis are the future of enterprise collaboration, so improving adoption and effective use in your organization is key to realizing benefits like reduced email, fewer meetings and less time spent in meetings, and faster knowledge generation. Want to know more about how to achieve this? Atlassian invites you to a presentation on enterprise wiki adoption and growth strategies at our new office in Sydney next Wednesday, 11 July, at 5:30pm. Beer and pizza will be served at 5:30, and I'll give a presentation

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Wikipatterns at AusWeb07

I'm in Coffs Harbour (in New South Wales, Australia) for AusWeb07, the Australasian World Wide Web Conference. In the afternoon poster session today, I'll be talking about Wikipatterns.com and its role as a universal, community-built set of tools for wiki users. On the left is a small image of the poster accompanying my presentation. (click on the image for a larger version).

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Social Network Analysis of Wikipatterns.com

Wiki consultant James Matheson performed a social network analysis of Wikipatterns.com, and recently wrote about his findings. He looked at the relationship between contributors based on common page editing, and the relationship between pages themselves based on the volume of edits and number of editors. The report observed that the home page is frequently edited, but by editors who appear to edit only the home page. This is because when editors tag pattern pages with one of four tags: people pattern,

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Web Content 2007, Enterprise 2.0 conference, Atlassian Boston User Conference

I'll be in Chicago on Monday, presenting at Web Content 2007, then on to Boston for the Enterprise 2.0 conference where I'll be presenting "Collective Intelligence: Monkeys or Memes?" with Jeffrey Walker, Atlassian's President. On Thursday, June 21st, Atlassian is hosting a User Conference at MIT. If you're in the area, I hope to see you there!

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Why Wiki is more productive than BlackBerry

Andrew McAfee wrote recently that his MBA students raised a concern about whether, "people who use the new tools heavily — who post frequently to an internal blog, edit the corporate wiki a lot, or trade heavily in the internal prediction market — will be perceived as not spending enough time on their 'real' jobs." He explains that the likely source of this concern is the work environments his students came from, environments that place a high value on busyness, or the appearance thereof,

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Does simply using so called Enterprise 2.0 tools mean Enterprise 2.0 has succeeded?

Tom Mandel asks this question on the FASTForward Blog. I think that simply using the tools does not mean Enterprise 2.0 has succeeded. Enterprise 2.0 technology is the medium by which collaboration can succeed, but technology will not succeed for technology's sake. Knowledge Management technology was the last major effort that tried to transform collaboration and knowledge sharing, but it failed because it focused too exclusively on knowledge and not enough on how people naturally interact. By contrast,

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