Tuesday, May 18, 2004

Wicked (Good) Wikis. Collaboration and Messaging Analyst Stowe Boyd has a seriously great article on wikis in Darwin . Its a good intro to wiki, compares them with weblogs, highlights their emergent properties and role as social tools. ...Wikis are built upon an inherently open model of social interaction and collaboration, with very little constraint placed on the participants. In a sense, this puts the onus back on the members of a project group to self-police: to build structure out of the minimalist forms... [Socialtext] I also liked this description of blogs Much of the value of a blog network is the social capital that is built from relationships. People read each others' blogs to see what their friends (and enemies) are up to, and then they add value by linking, commenting and elaborating what is being said. The implicit or explicit "swarmth"[online reputation] that individuals accumulate can be a vital indicator of their worth to the organization — who trusts whose recommendations, whose proposals seem to garner the most attention and who is a respected authority — which can be more effectively managed (if managed is the right word) in the social matrix than in the command-and-control hierarchies that still seem to form the architecture of most businesses. Non-social solutions — such as traditional content management solutions, portals and newsletters — cannot compensate for the missing social dimension that social tools engender. ("Social Tools: Ready For The Enterprise?" Cutter, January 2004) The same social interactions seem to take place in Wikis, but at a faster pace and with a more intensely collaborative feel. Wiki structure is so open it can be morphed into any of a variety of collaborative modes 8:03:43 PM     Plogs. Michael Schrage has a great article in CIO on the Virtues of Chitchat, or using a blog for informal IT project communication. He calls an informal project weblog a plog, extolls their benefits for project members and management alike. So... [Ross Mayfield's Weblog] 7:49:28 PM

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