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Why wiki is good for work

Demir Barlas, writing at Line56, pulls together an amazing, singularly pointed article on why wiki is good for work. Bravo!

A wiki, you see, is the voice and platform of the drone, and there are many, many more drones than managers. A wiki is a way for drones to organize themselves and to serve their own needs without waiting for the boss, the manager, or the Encyclopedia Britannica to do it.

via Web 2.0: Ready to Go - A response to Nicholas Carr’s skepticism about emerging Web-based collaboration technologies

This entry was posted on Saturday, April 29th, 2006 at 3:30 pm and is filed under Understanding Wikis, Wiki Usability. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

2 Responses to “Why wiki is good for work”

  1. RecentChanges.info » Businesses face a Wiki world Says:
    June 23rd, 2006 at 3:06 pm

    […] They mention Eli Lilly and Co. and the edits to that page on Wikipedia, but what I can imagine is companies having to figure out what to do with an entire wiki dedicated to the pharmaceutical industry or even to Eli Lilly and Co. itself. This forces transparency. This forces companies to change the way the operate their business. Of course this all centers on the idea that people will embrace the simplistic self organization of wiki, which I excited to see. (see Why wiki is good for work) […]

  2. Mark Says:
    June 23rd, 2006 at 5:12 pm

    Wow, I pinging myself without knowing how!

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