Edit-Write-Save-Repeat

That's how to populate a wiki. Pretty simple.

I reviewed the slides on Organizational Wiki Adoption.

Great work uses:

• blogs...internal, all housed in one place
• staff lists...you could have contact info, but expand to what everyone does, what their knowledge is, how long with the organization
• personal space
• calendaring...well, we have the Outlook calendar, but I guess you could jump in with that
• charts...here's a good place to put company info and intelligence

According to the presentation, the top four wiki enemies are:

• intranets...you don't really hear much about them anymore, but I don't think they've disappeared
• knowledge management...I think they mean KM software, not the practice itself. Shifting that content to a wiki opens it up
• email...where does all the information communicated go? In sent-mail folders and, if a person's organized, subject folders...that are not shared.
• share drives

Wikis need a champion and support. It would be hard to undo certain ingrained practices and years-long investments.

As requested for Thing 17, I created a wiki page in the wiki sandbox. That was fun.