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"8 Things You Can Do With an Enterprise Wiki"

Posted by Stewart Mader: "John Mancini of AIIM published my article 8 Things You Can Do With an Enterprise Wiki, on his Digital Landfill blog. The article is part of 8 things, an ongoing series on topics like information, records, and content management, governance, email trends, knowledge sharing, business processes, etc. I'm reprinting the article here, in its entirety, for archival purposes, but you should head over to Digital Landfill to check out all the great articles in the series:

Many people think Wikipedia when they hear the word wiki, but there are multiple ways to use a wiki within an organization that are very different from Wikipedia, and more strongly aligned with the day to day activities, needs, and goals in a work environment.

Let's look at eight ways a wiki can help you readjust your valuable time to get more of your essential work done, spend less time on meetings and redundant activities, and more efficiently assemble, refine and reuse valuable information.

1. Meeting Agendas...

2. Meeting Minutes, and Action Items...

3. Project Management...

4. Gather Input...

5. Build Documentation...

6. Assemble and Reuse Information...

7. Employee Handbook...

8. Knowledge Base...

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• Wiki Adoption Part 4: Email Overload Killed the Businessperson
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• Video: Track Action Items in the Wiki
• Day 10: Action Items

The active links are available at the source site listed below.

Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on August 26, 2009 (boomark / email).