Internal Enterprise Wikis
eBusiness, social networks, collaboration Juni 16th, 2007
inspired by a late night documentation on arte.tv, the phrase "communicative events" let me reflect on our so called "projectBlog-theme"! Letting people make their own decisions in an organization, is a culture that encourages independence and therefore will help to build a knowledge base. So, looking for new ways of collaborating in project teams, I just want to list some dimensions (not to imply that they are the only ones) but to illustrate what kind of aspects are interesting and important especially in the context of internal enterprise wikis:
- supports RSS and atom feeds (recent changes)
- integrated weblog to allow your team easily track and publish information chronologically (internal project blog)
- connection information through links making it easy to connect what´s relevant
- send wiki pages to colleagues by email (great-I hope- for BlackBerry users)
- complete audit trail (if mistakes are made nothing is lost - revision)
- access is restricted to those who have been invited by an administrator
- manage files (attaching files to any wiki page, linking to files in the context of a discussion, taking notes about a draft file in progress,...)
- all of your team work´s is searchable
- building an informal taxonomy (´folksonomy´) by tagging page
The "inside-enterprise-wikipedia" should be used throughout the organization to document internal language, like commonly used code words or acronyms and also for processes that are typical for the company. Smaller teams (or Small and mediumsized businesses) can use it for building a shared repository of information about the organization.
This is my starting input, this is how I woke up this morning...Do you share some similar thoughts?
Den Wandel, den ich beobachte und hinterfrage, beschäftigt sich mit der Arbeit in kleinen, zeitlich limitierten, unter Umständen ortsunabhängigen Projektteams. Um in dieser Zusammenarbeit die Wertschöpfungsprozesse zu verbessern, ergeben sich gerade für KMU´s besondere Anforderungen an die Einführung von neuer Collaborationstechnik. Jedoch möchte hier jetzt nicht die Vorteile und Nachteile eines Einsatzes von Wikis oder Blogs diskutieren, obwohl diese Art von Technik damit von mir gemeint ist.
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