Monthly Archives: March 2008

How do you use a wiki? Poll results

On Monday, I posted a reader poll over on Grow Your Wiki asking how people use wikis in organizations. As of last night, 127 people responded, and here's what they had to say: There were three respondents who chose "Other", and here are their specific responses: Managing classroom information, garbage trash, and audits. Now, I can't really say much about garbage trash, but I can comment on the other two "other" uses: Managing classroom information is an excellent wiki use. In fact, I got started

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4 Challenges to Wiki Adoption in Organizations: #1 High-Level Resistance

Sandy Kemsley writes about 4 challenges to social media/enterprise 2.0 adoption that organizations. The first is resistance at the high-level: ...higher-level people are more resistant to bringing in Enterprise 2.0 technologies because it represents a democratization of content and a relative loss of power at their level. What they have to realize is that people below them will bring these tools in, even if they have to do so under the radar. She continues: ...it explains a lot about why I...have

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JIRA has Sixth Sense (Analytics)

  • By Jon Silvers, Director of Audience & Community Marketing
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  • On March 28, 2008
How much time do you spend in JIRA, coding, writing requirements, or... um, blogging? Most time tracking tools only give you partial insight into some of these figures, but if you're really wanting a precise figure, you might turn to Sixth Sense Analytics. They have recently built an integration to JIRA. Redmonk produced a video showing how the Sixth Sense Analytics integration works with JIRA, You can click below or see it here.

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Congratulations to GigaSpaces

  • By Jon Silvers, Director of Audience & Community Marketing
  • About News
  • On March 26, 2008
GigaSpaces Technologies today announced that its Wiki Documentation Portal has won a prestigious professional accolade, the Award of Excellence in the Society for Technical Communications (STC) California and Silicon Valley Technical Communication Competition. The wiki in question is Confluence. We wrote a case study about their use of the wiki to write documentation many months ago. A hearty congratulations to GigaSpaces! More in-depth information about using wikis for publishing online help and

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Want to speak at WikiSym 2008? What’s WikiFest?

The WikiSym 2008 Call for Papers is available now. WikiSym will be held 8-10 September in Porto, Portugal! WikiFest - 6:00 talks WikiFest is a new addition this year. It's devoted to helping you start and grow a successful wiki, and I've structured it Pecha Kucha style which means max 6 minutes and 20 slides - get to the point, do it fast, and hear from as many people as possible! Important Dates May 3rd: submissions deadline for research papers, practitioner reports, workshops, panels, and tutorials May

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