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21 Days of Wiki Adoption: the buzz continues!
Posted on March 3rd, 2008 on Blog on Wiki Patterns
More worldwide praise for 21 Days of Wiki Adoption - this time from Romania, the Netherlands, and the US: Sara Bocaneanu, who blogs about knowledge ...

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Northern Voice and Seinfeld
Posted on March 3rd, 2008 on Blog on Wiki Patterns
This made my day: But, the more I attend Northern Voice, the more I realize the magic is in who you break bread with. Last week, I had dinner with Robin, Jeffrey, and this wonderful new friend and...

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Wiki use in a law firm
Posted on March 3rd, 2008 on Blog on Wiki Patterns
Doug Cornelius interviews Lee Rosen, president of North Carolina-based Rosen Law Firm, about the firm’s wiki use: Over the last year, his firm has...

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Can social media tools ease corporate mergers?
Posted on March 3rd, 2008 on Blog on Wiki Patterns
Dennis McDonald explores this question in two posts. The first focuses on the external: customer communities, marketing and communication. The second looks at how social media can b...

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Day 19: Be Firm
Posted on March 3rd, 2008 on Blog on Wiki Patterns
Once you get wiki use started, be firm and make sure people don’t drift back to earlier means of collaboration: ...

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3 great resources you must read before next week
Posted on February 29th, 2008 on Blog on Wiki Patterns
I was out speaking at Stanford today, and didn’t post with my usual frequency, so here are three really good links worth a look this wee...

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Day 18: WikiCharter - community ‘house rules’
Posted on February 29th, 2008 on Blog on Wiki Patterns
A WikiCharter is a set of guidelines to ensure productive interaction between members of your wiki community. Here are five guidelines from the Sony Ericsson Developer World wiki: ...

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Wondering where wikis fit in the big picture?
Posted on February 28th, 2008 on Blog on Wiki Patterns
Forrester analyst Erica Driver just published this Web 2.0 Framework. It puts the underlying “plumbing” (Flash, XML, AJAX, mashups), ...

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Clay Shirky’s new book: Here Comes Everybody
Posted on February 28th, 2008 on Blog on Wiki Patterns
Clay Shirky’s new book is out today: Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations It’s on Amazon, and it looks really good. If you’re in Cambridge, MA, Clay is sp...

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Andrew McAfee’s 8 cultural necessities for wiki success, and tips to foster adoption
Posted on February 28th, 2008 on Blog on Wiki Patterns
Sandy Kemsley summarizes Andrew McAfee’s and Don Tapscott’s presentations at the FASTForward ’08 conference earlier this week. McAfee, who coined the term “Enterprise 2.0” and...

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