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New browsers come with new issues

February 12th, 2009 by Janus Boye
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This just as a friendly reminder to all practitioners: Internet Explorer 8 is due out later this year and you need to start preparing for it! As a major new release, it comes with several important changes (Microsoft goes as far as labelling it “breakthroughs”) as well as exciting new features and improvements. It will …

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Is wiki vendor Socialtext a poster child for software as a software?

February 10th, 2009 by Janus Boye
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One morning last week when I came into work, I noticed that all internal links on our hosted Socialtext-based wiki had stopped working. We use the wiki as our intranet in organisation, which, despite being small is spread over several locations. Our wiki is critical to our daily operation, so I immediately contacted support and …

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Three common wiki myths identified, and three more to consider

January 26th, 2009 by Dorthe Raakjær Jespersen
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Our research on the use of wikis in organisations, showed us that many wiki projects are based on unrealistic expectations. As I wrote in a recent article on CMS Watch, some common myths around wikis are:

That a wiki will motivate everyone in the organisation to contribute information
That employees will know how to contribute
That a wiki …

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Debunking wiki myths

January 10th, 2009 by Janus Boye
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Our analyst Dorthe R. Jespersen just had her guest appearance debut on CMS Watch with an interesting article on Wiki Myths, Wiki Reality. The article looks at some of the common hype surrounding wikis. A quote from the article:
Remember that flexibility also represents one of your largest challenges: You may gain a …

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Google Docs captures the essence of wikis

November 20th, 2008 by Janus Boye
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In an interesting posting called Is it still a wiki, my colleague Dorthe Jespersen recently made the valid point that a wiki in essence is about co-creation of content. As a frequent user of Google Docs, I would argue that the free web-based word processor and spreadsheet from Google enables exactly the same thing.
In our …

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Is it still a wiki?

November 11th, 2008 by Dorthe Raakjær Jespersen
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At the recent jboye08 conference, I experienced many interesting examples of how organisations are using wikis. I had many interesting discussions on the benefits and challenges of this tool in an enterprise context. However, what surprised me the most, was that the term “wiki” often carries with it some quite specific notions. “A wiki, in …

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