If I had to vouch for Groove Workspace software’s greatest feature, I would say "its concept". Groove provides a whole new way of collaborating online, while providing the best ideas, features and facilities one could have ever hoped for. This is the YahooGroup Premium version I had been looking for so long. It gives me all that I have now been spoiled to expect and more. [Jeroen Bekkers' Groove Weblog]
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I don't have a wiki yet, but I have reading a lot about them for the past several months. I want to try it, but it seems like it takes lots of effort. You and your team have to like to write.
"Following a survey on weblogs, Seb published on on wikis. What's interesting about the results is how the demographics differ -- wikis are definately earlier in the technology adoption lifecycle. To generalize, they have a different purpose: weblogs help people from different disciplines meet each other, while wikis help groups form.
Results of Seb's "wikis and knowledge sharing" survey. Hot on the heels of the weblog survey results, here are the results for the survey on how wikis are used to share knowledge. 167 people responded, but they are not a strict subset of the sample in the weblog survey. It is interesting to compare the professional background of respondents in each survey (questions 22 and 12). Webloggers' backgrounds were rather diverse, while the wikizen distribution was much more slanted towards technologists - with double the proportion of self-described technologists relative to other backgrounds.
I think this may indicate that the mindset needed to get drawn into wiki land, as opposed to blogspace, is different and closer to "programmerthink". Two examples: first, each new page needs to be given a meaningfully constructed name that is subsequently used for referencing that page. This is reminiscent of the naming and referencing of procedures, object classes or variables that programmers do all the time. Second, most wikis still use the loathsome CamelCase syntax, which instantly alienates many of the would-be users. "[Seb's Open Research]
