Wikis are great collaborative tools to share documents, pages, information etc. They often have Forums and discussion sections and hence have a social aspect to the interaction too.

They are created to overcome the inadeqacy of the 'Word/Track changes/Accept changes/Email attachment' system for creating, editing and sharind documents.

As opposed to other content management systems, Wikis are designed to encourage a more participatory and democratic dialogue. Everyone has an opinion and Wikis provide a way for people to express them.

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Last edited by marclaporte (2008-02-18 18:46:21)

How exactly would you like to use wiki in a corporate environment? What do you have in mind?

wikijunkie wrote:

Wikis are great collaborative tools to share documents, pages, information etc. They often have Forums and discussion sections and hence have a social aspect to the interaction too.

They are created to overcome the inadeqacy of the 'Word/Track changes/Accept changes/Email attachment' system for creating, editing and sharind documents.

As opposed to other content management systems, Wikis are designed to encourage a more participatory and democratic dialogue. Everyone has an opinion and Wikis provide a way for people to express them.

I knew about Wikipedia, of course, but stumbled upon the concept of the wiki only recently.  I'm in charge of a collaboration or 'group editing' procedure which I'd hoped could completely eliminate the hassles you outline above.  I promised I'd get something 'online' for the group (none of us are particularly tech savvy) three weeks ago!  And HAVE to get something up this weekend so we can start editing.  How can I keep it really really simple?  I'd appreciate any advice.  I just downloaded: Foswiki 1.0.9 Thanks.