The Wonder Of Wikis |
Wikis are wonderful tools but often misunderstood, difficult to use and seen as the poor relation of Blogs. And yet when made with Usability in mind they can be tools that can transform an organisation.
Whilst blogs are normally owned by an individual, most wikis are shared spaces where you and colleagues can easily collaborate to disemminate your company's body of knowledge, to answer customer questions or simply make sense of complicated world.
Because wikis show so much promise and yet often disappoint in practice, I wrote my own, called "The Wonder of Wikis".
The Wonder of Wikis is a wiki that...
- Unlike other wikis (like Wikipedia), it doesn't make you use formatting codes
- Unline other wikis it doesn't dispense with the all-powerful Wiki Word. I love the Wiki Word.
- It lets you add content and automatically links it to other related content in the wiki.
- It automatically discovers news items related to the page you are working on
- It finds blog articles you may have written on the same subject about
- It finds items that you and your team may have tagged on Delicious with that particular wiki word
- It creates graphics based on your content by running image searches and adding text on-the-fly
- And, because it based on Django + Grappelli, it has a great WYSIWYG editor, which means it's nice to use.