Here is the outline of the presentation I gave at the ASIST Annual Meeting on Wednesday, October 24, 2007. Tasked with discussing corporate blogs and wikis, I talked about some recent developments in those areas and used Renesys’ use of two blogs and an internal wiki to illustrate what people can do with wikis.
Compared to […]
Blogs and Wikis in the Corporate World
American Society for Information Science and Technology Annual Meeting
Jessica Baumgart
Jack Vinson
Jordan Frank
Christina Pikas
Kris Liberman
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
I used Renesys’ weblogs and wiki to provide concrete examples of why and how corporations use the tools.
Jack Vinson of Knowledge Jolt with Jack talked about community and how communities use the tools […]
Garrett pointed me to this New Scientist article about changes to Wikipedia to try to increase the quality of the content by making only edits by trusted people live immediately. While an effort to decrease vandalism and improve the overall quality of the content, some people fear many contributors—especially the ones who tend to stumble […]
The early bird registration rates for the 2007 ASIS&T Annual Meeting ends on Friday September 21, 2007. It was extended of the short time between Labor Day and the early cut off date. I can’t go because I have to attend the Digital Commonwealth program.
j, Christina Pikas, Jack Vinson and Jordan Frank are […]
Garrett sent me a link to this incredibly informative article from The Onion about some challenges to detecting vandalism in Wikipedia’s Dada article.
(For those of you unfamiliar with The Onion, I should note that it’s a humorous newspaper.)
Since Garrett sent me the Chronicle of Higher Education piece on Wikipedia Scanner and one of my coworkers shared the BBC article about the same, I can’t resist mentioning the tool that scrapes data from the history sections of the articles and translates them into information most people can understand about from where the editors […]
Word on the street is that Wikimania is hot. (Or is that haut?) The Wikimedia Foundation conference in Taipei goes until Sunday, August 5.
Garrett e-mailed me a story from AlterNet about the man with the most Wikipedia articles: Richard Farmbrough, Wikipedian for 39 months and an admin for 30.
"I am not actually obsessed with Wikipedia, despite appearances! If I am obsessed with anything, it is continuous improvement. I see Wikipedia as an example of this …"
Farmbrough shares a […]
I don’t think I’ve ever written about Grazr in this space before, regardless of how long I’ve known about it or the fact that a friend of mine is a champion of the tool. He gave me a detailed demo, which makes me want to pull writing about it off the backburner and into reality. […]
Garrett sent me a link to an AlterNet piece where Annalee Newitz tells her tale of what made her become a Wikipedia activist and why. Apparently, deletion can do more than just erase articles and history.
Thanks, Garrett!