Wiki wins

Here I go again.

We have just formed an online collaboration community in which we hope to define the minimum requirements of the collaborative tools for our business.

For example:

• Global search ability
• Version control
• PDF
• Export
• Cross platform integration
• Friendly URLs

From there we believe we can influence the policy and processes around take-up and use of these tools.

Running concurrently with this new plan, I have several wiki spaces being quietly used by the business :

1. Mediawiki for a business glossary (about 1% staff uptake so far without advertising)
2. Confluence for team, project and communities to collaborate.

I will let you know how it all goes.

The secret is to get people who have a need, provide the solution quickly and don't call it a wiki until they are confident users.