The biggest challenge that most managers or work team leaders face when they decide to use a wiki is getting their coworkers to use it too. Some organizations have been extremely effective at getting mass participation on their wikis, others have simply failed altogether.
The nice folks at Atlassian, the private Australian company that is among the leaders […]

Based on a just released study of familiarity and adoption among Inc. magazine’s 500 list of America fastest-growing companies, social media appear to be making greater than among the Fortune 500 firms. In the words of its authors, the survey, conducted by the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth’s Center for Marketing Research under the direction of blog […]

Keith Patterson is the CEO and visionary behind Itensil, Inc., a web 2.0 software firm that develops web 2.0 user interface technology and provides a hosted service called Itensil Team Activity Manager.  The product features a unique wiki + workflow integration that enables teams to turn collaborative ideas into reusable workflows.  Patterson bootstrapped Itensil from […]

It’s kind of like the old story of the wife who works for years to get her husband through medical school and the minute he starts making enough money to afford the second BMW he dumps her for something younger and flashier. 
Kevin, who works at a company that builds customized JotSpot wikis for enterprises, writes on […]

Traditional read-only intranets are the Siberia of corporations.  Nobody goes there unless they have to.  Companies tend to view them as a place to park their personnel manuals, an internal phonebook, maybe some press releases, company calendar, and HR notices.  In organizations where they are the default home page, employees often see them as an annoying and unnecessary […]

For those of you keeping score at home, here’s a recap of this week’s exciting action in the battle of the enterprise wikis.  On Tuesday, Socialtext announced that it was the wiki part of an bundle of social software called SuiteTwo–packaged by Intel Capital, the chipmaker’s venture arm–to be sold through Intel channels.  The other pieces of the […]

Assume for a moment that you are the CEO of cool little startup in a corner of the Web 2.0 market that is hotting up quickly (wikis).  One of your main competitors (JotSpot) has just been goggled by Google and who knows what scary bunch of free web services they’re about to cobble together.  Another rival (Blogtronix) is already offering […]

The wiki world is going a bit wacky over Google’s acquisition of JotSpot with rivals Socialtext and Atlassian both offering “migration” deals to customers who may be feeling some uncertainty about what Google has in mind for its latest property. 
In a new post, Jon Silvers, director of marketing at Atlassian extends his congratulations to the JotSpot gang, offers the to-be-expected spin […]

The MIT Center for Collective Intelligence was officially launched today with a modest amount of speechifying and the announcement of an intriguing new experiment to create a Wikipedia-style community-authored book about how to use communities in business.
Called We Are Smarter Than Me, the book/project’s home is an online community and wiki managed by Shared Insights where  business professionals are encouraged […]

Michael Schuster, head of products and services at System One presented the company’s amazing collaboration/search application at DEMOfall earlier this week.  You can watch his demonstration online here.  This is definitely a killer app in the making.