Awakened Voice

It’s official. My daughter is 19 months old and she experienced her first wiki today. She got her Elmo fix over on The Muppet Wiki.
[tags]Social Media, Wiki, Muppets, Elmo[/tags]
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I ask the question because recently I heard someone at Podcamp West complaining about having to register via the wiki rather than having a standard form where you enter information as prompted. The individual speaking received a few nods of agreement when they expressed their displeasure with having to edit a page that included everyone [...]

Speaking of acquisitions in the social media space, I got an email this morning announcing that Google had purchased hosted wiki service JotSpot. Is there no end to the acquisitions that Google can (and will) make? Probably not given their market capitalization.
According to the email, “Google shares JotSpot’s vision for helping people collaborate, share and [...]

The Google Blog is reporting on some new features for Google Spreadsheets. The new features are nice, including support for the Open Document Format that is used by Star Office and Open Office plus PDF support. I’ve been using Star Office with Google Spreadsheets over the last couple of weeks and have been converting to [...]

There are many ways to use a wiki to publish information and collaborate online. A good case in point is Savory New York.
Savory New York uses MediaWiki to create a web based guide to New York City restaurants. This is a very nice implementation of MediaWiki that includes embedded videos of many of the [...]

One of the biggest problems that organizations have is efficiency in collaboration. Just recently I talked to a colleague who was frustrated about the process of sharing large files via email. People sending him email would constantly get the dreaded ‘mailbox full’ notification.
Wikis offer an alternative approach to mailing documents back and forth. As many [...]

Wired News reporter Ryan Singel has completed his collaboratively produced article on Wikipedia. The results?
Ryan offers, “Is it a better story than the one that would have emerged after a Wired News editor worked with it? I think not.”
Read the completed story here and read Ryan’s complete thoughts on the process here.
[tags]Social Media, Wiki, Journalism, Wired [...]

With the announcement of the Wired Magazine article on wikis that is being collaboratively written via wiki I started thinking about different uses of wiki technology within organizations.
One of the most important pieces of marketing collateral in any organization is the story of the organization. And the closer that your organization is to its beginning, the [...]

A very interesting move into the Wiki space by Wired Magazine.
Wired News reporter Ryan Singel is writing an article on Wikis and he’s using a wiki hosted over at Social Text to gather information on the subject. Those in the know are being asked to edit the story as they see fit.
According to the article [...]

Wikimania is taking place August 4th thru 6th in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
According to the official conference website, “Wikimania brings together members of the various Wikimedia projects in order to exchange ideas, build relationships, and report on research and project efforts. It also provides an opportunity for Wikimedians and the general public alike to meet and share [...]