Archive for the 'Wiki' Category

Toronto Wiki Tuesdays: Feb, Mar, April.

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

Last month’s Toronto Wiki Tuesday marked a turning point. For the next 3 months in 2008 we have speakers lined up! To date I have usually lead a conversation based on my work with clients but I much prefer to not have to be center-stage all of the time.
Talks at Toronto Wiki Tuesdays usually […]

Toronto Wiki Tuesday mentioned in Canada’s National Post

Tuesday, December 18th, 2007

Toronto Wiki Tuesdays got a brief mention in today’s National Post

‘‘I will be heading to Rower’s Pub to this month’s Toronto Wiki Tuesday, Toronto’s dedicated Wiki event. We’ve had some great topics, talking about how using a wiki efficiently creates knowledge, how we can use them to couple thinking to the output of systems […]

Available for Speaking Engagements

Friday, November 16th, 2007

It’s apparently not sufficiently well known that I am available for speaking engagements. Let’s see if we can change that
Here are some recent talks:

Professional Administrator’s Forum - Aug 16 2007 (Private)
Office 2.0, San Francisco - Sep 5 (Public)
McMaster University - Wikis and Social Software as it applies to Knowledge Management - 12 Nov […]

I am at WikiSym in Montreal

Monday, October 22nd, 2007

I arrived last night in Montreal for the Wiki Symposium at OOPSLA after a brief trip to the UK. http://ws2007.wikisym.org/space/start is the wiki.
Come join us on IRC channel #wikisym on freenode.net.
I’ll be running an Open Space session on http://WikiConsulting.com/ looking to hear how to quickly add value to our field.
Today I’m wearing a grey with […]

Jotspot prepares for relaunch as Google Wiki

Tuesday, September 4th, 2007

Michael Arrington (Techcrunch) reports:

Google may finally be preparing to re-launch wiki service Jotspot, nearly a year after it acquired the company.

Google acquired JotSpot last year, bringing it into it’s over widening portfolio of office-related services. Jotspot was not only a decent wiki, it contained a veritable suite of groupware features capable of giving any vendor […]

I’m speaking at Office2.0 on mindmapping and culture of Enterprise 2.0

Sunday, September 2nd, 2007

I’ve accepted an invite to speak on two panels (Thurs-Fri) at Office 2.0 in San Francisco, California this week:

Cultural and Technology in Enterprise 2.0 rollouts (hosted by Jevon MacDonald).

This will explore the cultural nuances related to designing, developing and deploying Social Software in the Enterprise. Being a wiki kind of guy I’ll bring some perspectives […]

Wikis – Making Sense out of a House of Shards (2004)

Wednesday, March 7th, 2007

Wikis - Making Sense out of a House of Shards(c) Martin@Cleaver.org2 December 2004
A wiki can be a posting board, knowledge base, project tracker, photo album, and discussion forum. It’s all of these, yet none alone does it justice. Even for the most experienced, a Wiki can be infuriatingly difficult to classify!
From a linguistic perspective, the […]

Helix Commerce and IBM: Blogs and Wikis in Business

Tuesday, March 6th, 2007

Note: I no longer work with Helix Commerce.
Some of my readers will know me from presenting with Bill Ives at KMWorld on the topic of Blogs and Wikis. Well, Bill, Cindy and I have teamed with IBM to provide a training version for corporations and the public.
Here’s an extract from our marketing literature:

Blogs and […]

McMaster Congress: Enterprise 2.0 “ID-ah!” at Bell Systems and Technology

Sunday, January 28th, 2007

40,000 Minds are better than 1: A case analysis of idea management at Bell Canada (Weds 24 Jan, 11:30am-12)
Meaghan McKnight and Rex Lee - BELL SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGY
Rex and Meaghan from Bell Canada talked through some pretty exciting Enterprise 2.0 internal projects at Bell Canada. The one that got my attention the most was ID-ah!, […]

Socialtext available offline!

Friday, December 15th, 2006

It sounds like Socialtext have pulled off masterful feat of technology: taking a web application and making it available offline. Such a goal is really sound: so many of us live in a ever-more mobile world, the frequently disconnected worker is usually excluded from some of the best apps.
Take, for instance, the case of IBM, […]