eWeek: Wikis Are Alive and Kicking in the Enterprise
eWeek Wikis Are Alive and Kicking in the Enterprise
By Stan Gibson
November 20, 2006
If you haven’t heard that cry already, chances are you will soon, as the use of wikis in enterprise environments spreads like wildfire.
Proliferating virally, wiki usage has grown exponentially in recent months, along with other consumer-centric technologies—including blogs, podcasts and RSS—that have made their way into the workplace thanks in part to the influx of the tech-savvy entry-level employees of so-called Generation Y.
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2061135,00.asp
Funny thing is, the adoption curve has been way behind the technology. TWiki, for instance, while better from a programming point of view, is not substantially functionally different to it was in 2001 when I implemented it at Arthur Andersen.
What’s changed? Collaboration as an accepted paradigm maybe. What do you think?
