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WikiPatterns : a toolbox of ideas and strategies to build a successful wiki.

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Wikipatterns

Price: $15.50 USD

From the authors:

A combination of a web page and a Word document, a wiki is a tool that’s simple like email but powerful enough to reduce your cluttered inbox and busy meeting schedule. Wikipatterns will help you learn how to build a 21st-century tool for collaboration, whether your team is in the same office or split among offices around the world. Wikis can transform business collaboration, and you’ll learn the ins and outs of making the most of this enduring collaboration tool. This book answers questions like:

What is a wiki?
How does an organization’s wiki differ from Wikipedia?
How do I make a case for using a wiki?
What’s the best way to get started?
How do wikis change an organization’s culture?
How do wikis “fit” with other collaboration tools?
What are the patterns of use and behavior that positively and negatively affect the wiki?
How do I encourage participation and make the wiki “stick” as an idea and a tool?

About wikipatterns.com

Wikipatterns.com is a toolbox of ideas and strategies for anyone looking to build a successful wiki. It’s also a wiki, which means you can help build the information based on your experiences!

Main Links

Official site: Wikinomics the book
Official blog: WikiPatterns
Google blog search : WikiPatterns
Google search: WikiPatterns
YouTube videos: WikiPatterns

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JudyAnn Lorenz

In the beginning, we are building an encyclopedia for our field. While on that journey, someone gave me a copy of wikipatterns and my mind has been Blown! However, we do want that encyclopedia and FAQ format first

Doug Cornelius

Accenture 123,000 employees with 54,000 wiki users
Deutsche Bank 270,000 employees (80,000 online) with 15,000 wiki users
IBM 387,000 employees with 100,000 wiki users

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Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything

admin — Fri, 30 May 2008 12:29:40 +0000

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From the authors:

Smart companies are encouraging, rather than fighting, the heaving growth of massive online communities—many of which emerged from the fringes of the Web to attract tens of millions of participants overnight. Even ardent competitors are collaborating on path-breaking science initiatives that accelerate discovery in their industries. Indeed, as a growing number of firms see the benefits of mass collaboration, this new way of organizing will eventually displace the traditional corporate structures as the economy’s primary engine of wealth creation.

Billions of connected individuals can now actively participate in innovation, wealth creation, and social development in ways we once only dreamed of. And when these masses of people collaborate they can collectively advance the arts, culture, science, education, government, and the economy in surprising but ultimately profitable ways. Companies that engage with these exploding Web-enabled communities are already discovering the true dividends of collective capability and genius.

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I need someone to explain to me why URL shorteners are so important - I did a presentation on Twitter last week where I opened with a simple question if you were a venture capital investor in early 2006, and the creators of Twitter came up to you and asked for start-up funding, would you have provided it? Most people said definitely not and I was amongst [...]

12 Critical Success Factors for Business Platforms - In 2004, Walt DuLaney and I conducted a longitudinal examination of business growth and cumulative revenue performance. Among the success factors, we found that companies with powerful business platforms outperformed peers in cumulative revenue growth over a 15 year period. Our conclusion: business platforms can be a means for organizational renewal, continuous innovation, and [...]

Employee computer for collaboration, innovation, and productivity - I've got a better computing environment at home than at work, an executive at a Fortune 500 company told me, adding that he does most of his creative work at home because his company-issued Adobe Suite was several generations behind the version he bought for his personal use. An HR executive at a major manufacturer confided [...]

The Dark Side of Political Discourse on the Internet - This article by Anand Giridharadas in The New York Times Week in Review section is the first I've seen (there must be others elsewhere) that broaches a topic that has been on my mind for a while. I guess you could call it the dark side of the Internet. Giridharadas wonders: Are we, as citizens, [...]

Intelligently Filtering Journalists’ (Crowd)Sources - (Editor's Note: Dr. Mark Drapeau is an adjunct faculty member in the School of Media and Public Affairs of The George Washington University in Washington, DC. He is also a corporate and government advisor, and a contributing writer for Federal Computer Week, Washington Life, and other publications.) Readily available transparent communications are changing how people form [...]

Starting the Comparison of NBA teams on Twitter - A couple of weeks ago I explained why how the NBA the league, the teams, the players uses Twitter would be a fascinating and fun research topic. With the help of my colleague Yuan Ding, we've been slowly building the data set for this research, with an early focus placed on comparisons between [...]

The digital identity divide - If you haven’t conducted this experiment yet, visit the MIT Personas project and type your name into the search field. What comes out is a visual representation of your digital self. As noted on the project page, “Personas shows you how the Internet sees you.” Over the past year, we’ve been researching extensively the topic [...]

Unbundling the 20th Century Mindset - Having spent the past three years of my life in the Enterprise 2.0 / Collaborative software market, I remain struck by the industry's continued lack of ability to define a compelling reason for enterprises to adopt new software applications, such as blogs, wikis, microblogs, etc. In the early days of the Enterprise 2.0 movement, much [...]

Jon Stewart’s trustworthiness no surprise - In the wake of Walter Cronkite's death, time.com asked readers to vote for today's most trusted newscaster. The decisive winner, with 44 percent of the vote, was Jon Stewart, host of Comedy Central's pull-no-punches The Daily Show. This was well ahead of the 29 per cent for NBC anchor Brian Williams, 19 per cent [...]

The Importance of Creating a Collaborative Enterprise - Today, the core challenge – and primary opportunity for value creation – is the utilization of complex knowledge formed through the contributions of many individuals and discrete events. This requires creating a collaborative enterprise – an organization that is adept at bringing ideas and information together in new and useful ways. The Twentieth Century business challenge [...]

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R eflections of a Literary Journey

What was the difference? The losers launched Web sites. The winners launched vibrant communities. The losers built walled gardens. The winners built public squares. The losers innovated internally. The winners innovated with their losers. The losers jealously guarded their data and software interfaces. The winners shared them with everyone.

Continuous Learning & Development

The problem from an organizational and knowledge-management point of view, however, lies in the inability of firms to capture and codify those moments of inspired brilliance – the moments when someone does something spontaneous that could be the key to unlocking a whole new approach to getting things done. Mayfield suggests the self-organizing group formation process should occur in social software. “Those are the moments where the greatest amount of learning occurs”, he says.

The Eponymous Pickle

… The wikified organization is a proposal for the ultimate in ‘flattening’ of an organization that was pushed, in most business schools, so heavily during the 90’s.

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Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies

admin — Mon, 26 May 2008 13:49:30 +0000

Product Description:

Corporate executives are struggling with a new trend: people using online social technologies (blogs, social networking sites, YouTube, podcasts) to discuss products and companies, write their own news, and find their own deals. This groundswell is global, it s unstoppable, it affects every industry and it s utterly foreign to the powerful companies running things now.

When consumers you ve never met are rating your company s products in public forums with which you have no experience or influence, your company is vulnerable. In Groundswell, Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff of Forrester, Inc. explain how to turn this threat into an opportunity.

Using tools and data straight from Forrester, you ll learn how to:

Evaluate new social technologies as they emerge

Determine how different groups of consumers are participating in social technology arenas

Apply a four-step process for formulating your future strategy

Build social technologies into your business including monitoring your brand value, talking with the groundswell through marketing and PR campaigns, and energizing your best customers to recruit their peers

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Why I'm leaving Forrester - by Charlene Li I was once asked what was the best career advice I ever received -- and it was to plan for job obsolescence every 18 months, because research showed that people typically master a job in that time...
The real business model for Web 2.0: corporate clients - by Josh Bernoff Everyone seems to want an answer to the question "When will Web 2.0 startups start making money?" The implication is that unless we can answer the question, the "bubble" of Web 2.0 will burst and all of...
Data chart of the week: social networks around the world - by Josh Bernoff There's a lot of speculation about social networks, and predictions usually go in one of two directions: This is growing and soon everybody will be on one (or more than one) This is a fad and even...
Google Friend Connect -- making open social easy - by Charlene Li Google announced that it would be releasing Google Friend Connect this evening (link won't work until Monday evening.) The idea behind Friend Connect is to give Web masters the tools to easily add social features to their...
Facebook Connect - another step to open social networks - by Charlene Li Facebook just announced "Facebook Connect", which they position as the natural evolution of Facebook as an open platform, which started from their initial API in 2006 and expanded with Facebook Platform in May 2007. This is how...
Data chart of the week: international blog and user-generated video participation - by Josh Bernoff In today's post we're showing off our international data capabilities with some data about participation in creating and consuming content in different geographies. This is the first table in Chapter 2 of Groundswell. I find it amazing...
Social technology marketers bullish in face of recession - by Josh Bernoff In February we published research based on our expectation that interactive marketers should continue their investments in social applications with a recession potentially coming. Today we published the results of new research that shows that many interactive...
Listening with Summize and Tweetscan - by Josh Bernoff As Twitter swells, at least in the minds of Groundswell thinkers, you have to wonder what people are saying about you. It's easy enough to track that (in theory . . . more on that later) using...
Data chart of the week: who do people trust? - by Josh Bernoff For today's weekly data chart we'll look at a different kind of data for a change -- not a Social Technographics Profile but some attitudinal data that's highlighted in Groundswell. Today's question is: whom do you trust?...
Yahoo! Open throws down the gauntlet for the open social graph - by Charlene Li Yahoo! unveiled Yahoo! Open at O'Reilly's Web 2.0 Expo today. In a nutshell, Yahoo! is doing the following: 1. Rewiring Yahoo!. They are making it possible to create applications that can be shown throughout all of Yahoo!....

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Lindy Dreyer

What is the groundswell? A social trend in which people use technologies to get the things they need from each other, rather than from traditional institutions like corporations (or associations like ours.) Some of the association community is already being impacted by the groundswell…it’s only a matter of time before all of us will be impacted.

Scott McAtrthur

Li and Bernoff present a strong case for organisations to look on Web 2.0 as an opportunity rather than a threat. They do this by presenting what they refer to as their Social Technographics Ladders in which they classify customers depending on their Web 2.0 activities.

David Neal,

To hammer home their message, the authors pay particular attention to Kevin Rose, the founder of news aggregation site Digg.com.

One of the poster boys of a new generation of web services entrepreneurs, Rose was at the sharp end of the Web 2.0 revolution when a sensitive piece of “news” was removed from the Digg site by the site operators. When this happened, Digg users spread the offending article across other sites and blogs. As a result, the story re-appeared on Digg, and once again all traces of it were removed. When Digg got tired of repeating this process it relented, giving editorial control back to its users. “Caught between a lawsuit and its own audience, Digg bowed to the greater force: the audience,” write Li and Bernoff.

Lee Odden

“Groundswell” is the social trend that happens when people start connecting with each other via social technologies. The result: they start getting what they need from each other, rather than from companies. That’s incredibly disruptive to businesses who adhere to traditional ways of managing and marketing.

Nick O’Neil (with interview podcast)

Not only does the book provide a thorough overview of the current state of social technologies and their impact but it also discusses how businesses can adapt to them. Charlene emphasizes in the book and in my discussion with her that the focus should not be on the individual technologies that shape the social web (and the groundswell) but instead on the relationships.

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List of corporate blogging resources

admin — Mon, 26 May 2008 11:48:45 +0000

CoTweet™ - How business does Twitter - Multiple Accounts and Multiple Users :: Manage up to six Twitter accounts through a single CoTweet login.
Facebook Wave: Why Facebook Should Clone Google Wave - La force de Facebook est d'atteindre les groupes mainstream :: quels seraient les avantages voir les changements que Facebook pourrait imposer en "volant" l'idée de Google Wave?
Taolin
Reversing the Enterprise 2.0 Pricing Model - ReadWriteWeb
Twelve best practices for online customer communities | Enterprise Web 2.0 | ZDNet.com
Business Technology : Why Most Online Communities Fail - One of the hot investments for businesses these days is online communities that help customers feel connected to a brand. But most of these efforts produce fancy Web sites that few people ever visit. The problem: Businesses are focusing on the value an online community can provide to themselves, not the community.
Dogear - IBM Lotus Connections - Save, organize and share bookmarks; discover bookmarks that have been qualified by others with similar interests & expertise. Dogear gives people a better way to manage their own bookmarks as well as share, subscribe and search the community's bookmarks.
LinkedIn - Our mission is to help you be more effective in your daily work and open doors to opportunities using the professional relationships you already have. This isn’t networking—it’s what networking should be. Forget exchanging business cards with ac
Cogenz - Cogenz is a hosted social bookmarking service for companies wishing to harness the collective intelligence of their employees using social software in a simple and effective way.
Six Apart - Six Apart makes the best blogging tools on the market and offers personalized services and innovative advertising programs that enable bloggers to be more successful.
WIKINOMICS | HOME - In the last few years, traditional collaboration—in a meeting room, a conference call, even a convention center—has been superceded by collaborations on an astronomical scale. Today, encyclopedias, jetliners, operating systems, mutual funds, and ma
IBM Lotus Social Software - IBM Lotus® Connections is social software for business that empowers you to be more innovative and helps you execute more quickly by using dynamic networks of coworkers, partners and customers.
A Complete List of the Many Forms of Web Marketing for 2008 - This document catalogs the many tools and tactics available for corporate web strategy in 2008. Even if your strategy or resource limitations restrict you from entering all spaces, awareness of the changes in our digital landscape are critical. This docum
Awareness Inc- Community Types - Awareness takes a holistic view of communities and is unique in its ability to create communities that mix internal and external audiences. Why? Enterprise security and control to segment users with different permissions and privileges Manual and auto
WorkLight - WorkLight™ is a server-based software product that brings a secure and highly- personalized "Web 2.0" computing experience to the enterprise.

Hello world! This is CorporateBlogging.net

admin — Thu, 15 May 2008 15:29:45 +0000

Welcome to this new project.

The objective of CorporateBlogging.net is to list any resources dedicated to collaborative enterprises.

We talk about books, softwares, services and practices that enable companies to integrate the best practices of Web 2.0.