The Wisdom of Wikis: "While dot-coms and blogs have hogged the spotlight, an intriguing bit of software called Wiki actually deserves the gold medal for best trust-building tool"...I don't know about trust building, but certainly the best tool I've come across for collaboration (once you can get past the fact that it is VERY open (first question I always hear: "Anyone can edit? What if people put up garbage (profanity/delete posts/vandalize, etc."))
Posted by gsiemens at April 18, 2003 11:21 PMI'd say a wiki is much more focused on content and collaboration, while a blog is rather focused on (chronological) form and on the individual.
Posted by: Moe at April 19, 2003 9:30 AMThe key affordances of the Wiki genre are: easy web publishing, refactoring and text annealing. This is collaboration at the level of text itself rather than an attributed you write then I comment style.
Do wikis build more trust? - I'm not convinced, but the genre is very useful for class / group projects, keeping personal portfolios and building a robust corporate memory.
The integration of wikis and blogs e.g. as done by SocialText is an innovative twist
Posted by: Denham at April 19, 2003 10:26 PMI agree...wikis have great potential for class/group projects...drawback is getting people to understand how they work. I've been trying to get a wiki adopted at RRC as a corporate-wide FAQ. Uptake has been very slow...too bad, I think it's an excellent tool
Posted by: gsiemens at April 19, 2003 11:16 PM