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Tonight, in about 5 minutes, I installed a wiki for the office. Some of you many have heard of Wikipedia which allows ANYONE to edit the pages. This creates a “community” learning enviornment. It’s a great concept and has been extremely successful at Wikipedia. If you haven’t checked out Wikipedia, I strongly suggest you go and do some research there. If you’re too smart for an encyclopedia, I’d suggest you go there and share some of the knowledge by writing new terms and adding to existing topics.
In an office enviornment there is a lot of information John knows and should relay to Chris. An office could use a wiki to share this information.
Tonight, in about 5 minutes, I installed a wiki for iProv. You can see our wiki at www.iprovinternal.com/wiki. Now, I know its cool and I think it will be extremely useful. But, my questions is, how can we take full advantage of this?
My current ideas include:
- Customer Relationship Mangement
- Public To Do List
- Business Plan Development
- A Democratic Policies and Procedures
- Coding Standards
- Books to Read
- Things to Buy
What are other ideas?
Thats an awesome idea! I love wikipedia!
As for other ideas? Product history pages? Task-lists for different projects ( if you can “internalize” certain pages … i.e. password protected ).
1. public calendar
2. resources (links for articles, etc.)
3. Upcoming conferences
4. Office needs (software, equipment, etc)
5. Office documents (approval forms, fax cover sheets, etc.)
6. Maybe a suggestions page???
Good news John A, I found a way to password protect the wiki. I had to switch to PmWiki.
PmWiki doesn’t require a database and allows you to password protect the database. You can find a link to it on our current wiki.