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Wikisym 2007

Gestern ging Wikisym 2007, das Internationale Symposium on Wikis in Montreal, CA zu Ende. Oberthema der Konferenz war “Wikis at Work in the World: Open, Organic, Participatory Media for the 21st Century”.

Interessantes Programm, u.a. ging es um den Creole Markup Standard und weitere Wiki-Technologien. Daneben wurden verschiedene Tracks zu Wiki-Einsatzarenen und -Potenzialen angeboten – u.a. eine Session zu Wiki Patterns von Stewart Mader, aber auch zu Potenzialen von Wikis im Blended Learning.

Die Papers der Konferenz stehen größtenteils zum Download zur Verfügung, ebenso sind die Ergänzungen und Diskussionen im Konferenzwiki offen. Im Wiki sollen dann auch Blogbeiträge zur Wikisym 2007 erfasst werden, bspw. erste Einträge und Einschätzungen bei Axel Bruns und Andreas Gohr.

Web 2.0 is gaining traction in the corporate world …

is this really reality? Now, I’ve been collecting and compiling some serious stuff on Enterprise 2.0 and Web 2.0 adoption lately, some of them are worth pointing out … especially given a discussion I’ve had lately and that was revitalized today.

There’s this HBS Case on How Wikipedia Works (or Doesn’t) and the related discussion (“Wikipedia in Pinstripes”), that handles a lot of the adoption challenges social software has in the enterprise:

[…] Wiki is another experiment in how to generate more collaboration inside companies, but I’ve seen mixed results. It can be as simple as “We’re having an office party, please sign up on a wiki page, and tell us what you’re going to bring,” to “We’re going to run this project, bring in all your knowledge assets together, and then we can self-organize.”

What Wikipedia has shown is that self-selection is critical. Peer review is critical. So there is a challenge for firms that are used to managing employees and allocating the resources in a very top-down kind of way. Now we have a technology that enables self-selection, transparency, openness—how does a manager or management deal with the technology? Do they implement it in a way that’s true to the spirit, or is it top-down? And, again, there are some very successful examples and some not so successful examples.

Some crossposts from my other blog …

Lately blog readership of this blog has taken up – yet, I suspect that some of you don’t know that there’s a sister blog on business model innovation and design (BMID) that I am writing too, and that sometimes stuff is blogged there that’s related or touching on Enterprise 2.0, Web 2.0 or Social Software. So here you go, in reverse chronological order:

Social Networks and Organizational Pathologies …

What’s the attraction in Facebook?

Make innovation a truly open and collaborative process

Marketinginstrument Community – Wie können Marken den Nutzer beeinflussen?

Portable soziale Netzwerke

Noserub @ Barcamp München Tag 2

MIT Sloan Business Insight, with a link to an interesting article (How can companies build organizational networks that encourage innovation?)

Jumpstarting innovation (and how to leverage collaboration …)

Technology, Innovation and Organization (for complex organizational settings)

Leitfaden zum Thema Web 2.0 & E-Commerce

The Impact of Web 2.0 and Emerging Social Network Models

Designing for Flexibility

Video on how to grow wiki adoption in organizations

I am catching up with some social software related videos I bookmarked in the past few weeks, and I wanted to point out one that I really enjoyed:

Stewart Mader on the enterprise wiki: why it matters to business, use cases, and how to grow wiki adoption in organizations.

It’s a pity that the slides that he used aren’t online (Stewart?), but still it’s a good one to watch.

59 categorized pieces of knowledge management

Lucas McDonnell has revised his pieces of knowledge management into five larger buckets: Issues, Processes & Methods, Related Skills & Disciplines, Technology, and People:

It’s a good thing to cluster these topics, ideas and concepts into broad categories, and this new visualization can easily serve as a starting point for deeper discussions. Now, when discussing social software related issues in the realm of knowledge management you’ll have to explore and examine all five categories, it makes small sense to prioritize or sequentialize them a priori, but the actual pilot projects must of course place its implementation efforts (and bets) on parts of this “opportunity space”.