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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

As we roll into the warmer weather months here in North America many organizations are ramping up their efforts to plan and execute a myriad of events slated to occur in the summer of 2006. Music festivals, state fairs, carnivals, conferences, company retreats and many more types of important events that will include more [...]

A community Wiki site has relaunched and announced a round of venture capital funding. As reported on TechCrunch, Wikicities has relaunched as Wikia.
Wikia is a collection of Wiki based web communities that anyone can contribute to. If you don’t find a community to suit your needs there then you can start your own.
The funding is [...]