http://martin.cleaver.org/blog/2006/11/06/wikis-a-place-to-just-answer-the-question/ "Ideas are like Raindrops!" Martin on Web 2.0, Wiki, Conceptmapping, Middleware and Organisations Fri, 05 Dec 2008 09:29:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.2.3-2.2.1 http://martin.cleaver.org/blog/2006/11/06/wikis-a-place-to-just-answer-the-question/#comment-74 Martin Cleaver, masterfully. » Blog Archive » Wikis compared to Email, Discussion Groups and Blogs Tue, 28 Nov 2006 15:38:08 +0000 http://martin.cleaver.org/blog/2006/11/06/wikis-a-place-to-just-answer-the-question/#comment-74 [...] Wikis are means for a group to truly negotiate over meaning, align on values and build action plans together. The open nature of Wikis, where anyone can move or reword content facilitates collaborative idea structuring. The very lack of structured barriers between postings enables the next person to cut & paste conversation fragments around the wiki . Working on the same document (rather than linking between posts, or tacking on yet another comment) creates a workspace for situated cognition, where participants are forced to co-author the document. Co-authoring, in turn, ensures participates find a wording that summarizes the content, first by acknowledging differences and often by bridging through super-ordinate, more profound, concepts that explain a dilemma. [...] […] Wikis are means for a group to truly negotiate over meaning, align on values and build action plans together. The open nature of Wikis, where anyone can move or reword content facilitates collaborative idea structuring. The very lack of structured barriers between postings enables the next person to cut & paste conversation fragments around the wiki . Working on the same document (rather than linking between posts, or tacking on yet another comment) creates a workspace for situated cognition, where participants are forced to co-author the document. Co-authoring, in turn, ensures participates find a wording that summarizes the content, first by acknowledging differences and often by bridging through super-ordinate, more profound, concepts that explain a dilemma. […]

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