Wiki for Committee Work
A committee I’m involved in is trying to use a wiki to enhance communication between meetings. A wiki is a Web site with special software that enables anyone to edit it in a Web browser. Users don’t need to know HTML, but wikis have their own special syntax and coding. Wikipedia is an example of a wiki.
I’ve contributed to wikis before and am excited to see one employed for committee work like this. I hope it’s successful and that many members of the committee will contribute to it. It will be interesting to see how useful it will be.
One problem I’ve identified already is it’s difficult to know who’s contributed what to the wiki. Maybe in other environments, people initial their contribution(s), but in this environment, there doesn’t seem to be a precedent for that. In some ways, it’s nice because it enables stealth comments and edits, but it would be nice to know who’s making certain suggestions and changes.
June 24th, 2004 at 12:13 pm
Please let us know how that goes and how it compares to a collaborative blog with categories.
June 24th, 2004 at 1:27 pm
Hey Christina, I’ll definitely keep you posted. The big difference I think I see already is that the committee members seem more willing to adopt wiki technology than blog technology. What will really determine its success or failure is whether committee members actually contribute to it and read it.
Since I just started using another collaborative blog, as you may have read, making a comparison between the activities shouldn’t be too difficult.