Enterprise Wikimania

Sunday morning I was on a great panel about enterprise wikis with Ned Gulley, Karim Lakhani and Andy's takeaway was that with a freeform enterprise wiki you can positively accept contributions because it is different behind the firewall: Ross Mayfield said that in four years of building wikis for corporations written before, one of the advantages the Intranet has over the Internet is that people within companies share a culture and norms, and are usually quite reluctant to overturn them. In addition, vandals and trolls can usually be easily identified behind the firewall. So perhaps I shouldn't have been so suprised that employees aren't using corporate wikis to act out. The zero bad behavior (so far) can also be seen as an indicator that people are more often than not, good. My takeaway was a general consensus that while the tool matters, practices make wikis work and we need to share more. Socialtext https://www.socialtext.net/ewikimania Add to Del.icio.us | Digg | Yahoo! My Web | Furl Bookmark murdok: Socialtext, an emerging provider of Enterprise Social Software that dramatically increases group productivity and develops a group memory.