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June 25, 2005
Wikis 101
CIO Insight has the shortest, sweetest guide to wikis behind the firewall that I've yet seen:
- Wikis are a social innovation, not a technological one.
- Wikis turn the notion of "permissions" built into traditional knowledge management DMS's and CMS's upside down; suddenly everyone has permission (and ability) to edit everything.
- If you're worried about people on your payroll vandalizing an internal wiki, you have a bigger and different problem; are people vandalizing the Coke machine?
- Last and of breathtakingly paramount importance: "You can't know a priori what people need to know and share, but big knowledge management systems make a lot of a priori assumptions. Wikis don't."
I rest my case.
Posted by Bruce at June 25, 2005 12:54 PM | TrackBackPosted to Cultural Considerations | IT | Knowledge Management | Leadership Printer-friendly version
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