Wiki Power For Collaboration
Ok so we all now know that email is great for one to many direct coms – its quite simple to set up – has a good chance of being read and delivered well will make the personal connection you want.
But how about the time when the value you are trying to unlock is going to come from an ongoing conversation across time – not just a one message event?
When tried with email this ends up as an ongoing iteration of notes in each person’s Inbox with no one place where all the communication effort is stored. Online forums go someway to make this happen but they are not the easiest of things to edit at the best of times. Now wikis are starting to make an impact. A wiki is a web site that you can set up to allow whoever you want to have the power to edit the content shown.
Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia that uses this type of technology and method for building content
I am trialing the use of a few wikis for customers that want a central space to capture the workings of a nationally dispersed worker team. I think that a wiki well implemented could take team collaboration to a whole new level. I’ll let you know if my thoughts are well founded.