Archive for the 'WikiConsulting' Category

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!, […]

HyperScope 1.1 released

Wednesday, December 13th, 2006

Brad Neuberg just announced:

HyperScope is a high-performance thought processor that enables you to navigate, view, and link to documents in sophisticated ways. It’s the brainchild of Doug Engelbart, the inventor of hypertext and the mouse, and is the first step towards his larger vision for an Open HyperdocumentSystem.

Hyperscope mocks up the vision of Paper Airplane […]

Wiki promoting CIO moves to BT Global Services

Monday, December 11th, 2006

Innovators & Influencers: From Web 2.0 To Enterprise 2.0 (Digg) http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=196602773
Lots of CIOs pay lip service to Enterprise 2.0, the sometimes esoteric movement toward using consumer technologies like blogs and wikis to create a more collaborative business environment. JP Rangaswami not only is driving those Web processes internally as CIO of BT Global Services, but […]

American cop language confuses the force. How wikis can help.

Thursday, December 7th, 2006

Does your organization communicate effectively? Drawing from the BBC’s report on an American police force decision to stop using 10-4 and 10-20 type codewords (I was surprised to hear these are incompatible across different counties), I draw a parallel of how wikis can generate the common linguistic ground needed for purposeful communication.
The BBC reported today […]

Wiki technical report: Pasting into Confluence and TWiki

Tuesday, November 28th, 2006

Having used the Open Source TWiki since 2001, and for about a year used a commercial installation of Confluence, I am always looking to cross-contextualize my understanding of the two products.
This report compares Confluence and TWiki from the point of view of pasting of HTML content.
I made this report as I was surprised by what […]

Wikis compared to Email, Discussion Groups and Blogs

Tuesday, November 28th, 2006

I met Bryan Watson of EP-Enterprises for a meal about a month ago. Last week Bryan telephoned me to ask if I’d mind re-explaining the relative merits of Wikis compared to Email, Discussion Groups and Blogs.
This is the slide I’d shown him. Based on some notes I’d made a few years back, I’d compiled this […]

Open Skies for airflight; Open markets for Canada; Social Media as an Enabler.

Monday, November 27th, 2006

Travellers’ groups cheer ‘open skies’ plan

Airline and travellers’ groups are cheering a government plan to open up Canada’s skies to more competition, saying open-skies agreements with more countries will allow them to reach new markets and reduce ticket prices for consumers.
Currently, Canada only has two open-skies agreements, with the United States and Britain, while the […]

Management 2.0

Tuesday, November 21st, 2006

Great post by Business Two Zero: talking about Management Styles fundementally facilitative of emergence rather than imposing of process, and structure.
However, I was pleased that the first hit was for Kathy Sierra’s piece from earlier in the year. She highlights the emerging management style, influenced by web 2.0 thinking, is more community based, […]

Are you wiki consulting?

Monday, November 20th, 2006

It seems to me that there exists many different types of people doing “wiki consulting”. They differ by:
Background/goal:

Some are technologists, doing installs, writing plugins, etc.
Some are cultural anthropologists or statistians employed to provide insight on social interactions
Some are management looking to reduce the costs of running the enterprise
Some are HR types, looking to get better […]