Asso­ci­ated Press: ‘Wikis’ Offer Knowledge-Sharing Online.

There are Wiki cook­books, a com­pendium of quo­ta­tions and a repos­i­tory on gui­tar play­ers. Col­lege pro­fes­sors use Wikis to spur dis­cus­sion. Soft­ware devel­op­ers cre­ate online man­u­als. Small teams within busi­nesses track projects, exchange ideas and list good places for lunch. …

Though for now largely the domain of techies, Wikis are poised to become what blogs have turned into — still in the Inter­net avant garde yet wide­spread enough to be influential. …

Wikis are also described as online white­boards, shared note­books or group mem­ory. They are forums for shar­ing knowl­edge and con­trol — and fos­ter­ing trust in the process. …

Where Wikis can truly take off are in cor­po­rate and orga­ni­za­tional settings. …

On an inter­nal Wiki at Net Inte­gra­tion Tech­nolo­gies Inc., work­ers keep their cal­en­dars and man­agers can rearrange pri­or­i­ties (employ­ees could also change their bosses’ appoint­ments, though were they to do so they might not remain employ­ees for long).

JD Lasica works with major com­pa­nies and non­prof­its on social media strate­gies. See his busi­ness pro­file, con­tact JD or leave a comment.

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