The choice of business wiki can help or hinder a business. My article how to choose the best wiki is a general introduction to choosing a wiki. It describes features you need to consider when choosing a wiki for any use. In the ‘choose the best wiki’ article, you are left to decide which of […]
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Collaborate using Google Bookmarks
January 13, 2008 – 12:35 am
Google bookmarks can be accessed from any internet connection. Labelling (tagging) of the bookmarks simplifies finding pages you want to revisit. It is easy to share Google bookmarks with your team and a little innovation increases their usefulness.
Project definition
January 10, 2008 – 10:04 pm
This article identifies six crucial areas of project definition. Defining a project is a little different from scoping a project. Defining the project takes place before you get started; scoping the project is the first step in getting started. It is an essential part of business planning.
Each of the six areas identified has a series […]
Clikkawiki: new open source wiki for classroom education
December 17, 2007 – 7:57 am
Associate Professor Michael Bowen is developing a new open source wiki specifically designed for classroom education and is keen to get input from other teachers. He read my article on the Best Wiki for Classroom Education and left a comment, so I contacted him for more details.
Ten benefits of a business wiki
December 12, 2007 – 4:47 am
Here are ten really good reasons you need a wiki for your business.
1. Cut down on emails without missing out on a thing
A wiki drastically reduces the number of in-house emails. There is no need for them and there is no need to download attachments as the file is already on the wiki.
Google SEO: primary formula
December 9, 2007 – 10:19 pm
Google SEO can turn us into winners or losers. Problem is Google wont tell us the rules of its secret algorithm and the rules keep changing. SEO experts make a living analysing and interpreting the nuances of SEO and the Google algorithm, so where does that leave the rest of us. If only there was […]
Wiki text, wiki syntax or wiki markup
December 2, 2007 – 5:20 am
Wiki text, wiki syntax or wiki markup are all terms for a language used by many wikis to allow authors to easily create, write, edit and format pages on wiki websites from their web browsers. Wikis are increasingly offering WYSIWYG editing or access to the wiki page’s html but there are advantages and disadvantages of […]
First wiki: wiki wiki web
November 17, 2007 – 1:42 am
The first wiki, the wiki wiki web, is the brainchild of Ward Cunningham. Conceived in 1994 and born in 1995, this first wiki website, http://c2.com can still be visited.
Ward was looking for a quick way to work with other programmers to collaboratively publish software patterns on the web. He drew on his […]
Test your website design in different browsers at the same time
November 13, 2007 – 9:23 pm
Browser compatibily is a major issue in website design but testing your design in different browsers at the same time is now easy.
Website users view pages using a wide range of browsers. In September 2007 W3Schools presented these stats:
Internet Explorer 7 20.8%
Internet Explorer 6 34.9%
Internet Explorer 5 1.5%
Firefox 35.4%
Mozilla 1.2%
Safari 1.6%
Opera 1.5%
You want all […]
Wetpaint wiki: ad-free for educators
November 11, 2007 – 2:51 am
One of my criteria for Best Wiki for Classroom Education was that it should be ad-free. Wetpaint wiki have realised the importance of having ad-free wikis for educators, I hope it was because they read my article!
If you are an educator and you want to apply for an ad-free Wetpaint wiki you can visit Wetpaint’s […]
Wetpaint wiki: new features Nov 07
November 9, 2007 – 11:11 am
Wetpaint wiki have announced two innovative new features in their free hosted wikis.
The first of these offers a great way to organise comments from your wiki pages onto a central discussion forum. The wiki discussion forum allows you or your readers to access comment threads from the forum in three ways:
Recently updated threads
Most active […]
EditMe: promoting use as CMS
November 8, 2007 – 9:44 pm
The EditMe blog announces plans to promote its use as a Content Management System.
Matt, the EditMe founder, had plenty of experience at using several types of CMS for website development. He says they have become bloated and complicated because of their needs to satisfy the diverse needs of every user. The flexibility of wikis and […]
What’s a wiki management cycle?
November 1, 2007 – 10:26 pm
Penny Edwards in her post wiki management cycle describes five processes for managing wiki implementation. Penny is a smart cookie and her conclusions are based on sound research. We need to listen to what she has to say.
Six tips for getting web paragraphs right
October 24, 2007 – 9:05 pm
Paragraph structure can make or break a web page. Done right, it makes it easy for readers to grasp the emphasis, logic and purpose of the page and keeps them on the page. Here are six simple tips for getting paragraphs right. Hope you find them useful.
Web2, web2.0, web 2 or web 2.0?
October 20, 2007 – 3:32 am
Maybe web 2 exists, maybe it doesn’t, but there seems to be many ways of expressing it. I checked on google trends to see which term was most often used as a search term. There is a clear winner; ‘web 2.0′ took over from ‘web 2′ at the beginning of 2006 and continues to outstrip […]
Editme update: Oct 07
October 16, 2007 – 11:16 pm
EditMe has released an upgrade that changes how Layouts and Style Sheets are managed. Layouts previously used XSL, which was limiting and difficult to use. The new layout technology offers a simpler method of creating custom designs for EditMe sites, and includes a programmable API for accessing site content in a more dynamic way than […]
Best wiki for classroom education
October 16, 2007 – 10:28 pm
Teachers often ask which is the best wiki for classroom education. Wikis are understandably in demand by teachers. A wiki in the classroom gives teachers an additional tool to provide, identify and explore precious learning opportunities, using a wide variety of media.
The flexible student/material interface of a wiki in the classroom gives students chances […]
Wikispaces review: hosted wiki with free option
October 16, 2007 – 1:01 pm
My recent article on the best wiki for classroom education prompted me to take a fresh look at Wikispaces because of its offer of free no ads wikis for educators.
Wikispaces has its roots in wiki markup language but now has an effective WYSIWYG option, which means you can put together very presentable wiki pages without […]
Wetpaint releases wiki for Facebook
October 13, 2007 – 10:28 pm
Wetpaint have released Wiki Whiteboard, a Wetpaint wiki application for Facebook.
Once you have added the application you can auto-create a wiki for every Facebook group you belong to. You can easily edit the wikis with Wetpaint’s great WYSIWYG editor and inserst all the widgets available to Wetpaint users, such as YouTube, Vizu polls etc.
Wiki Whiteboard […]
What the !# bliki #! is a bliki?
October 13, 2007 – 4:01 am
A blog is a website with chronologically ordered articles or postings. A wiki is a website on which multiple authors can easily create and edit pages. Combining the words blog and wiki produces the ugly word, bliki, but combining the functions of wikis and blogs produces an incredibly useful class of online appliance. Blikis, I […]
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