adoption
Would you be excited about this network?
We’ve now got a SharePoint site up and running here at the office. I’m naturally excited to have a collaboration platform to jump into. My initial impressions: It’s a middling forum, wiki, and blog all in one. It’s got some upsides though – single sign on should be a huge benefit to adoption. Profile pics [read more...]
Tearing Down Walls Enables Communities to Thrive
My Gravatar control panel If new community members can’t start contributing quickly and easily, most of them aren’t going to bother. Getting users to adopt a new way of collaborating is never easy. They have to want to contribute to the community. Maybe they think they have something to offer everyone else. Maybe they feel [read more...]
Inside Japan’s Wiki Obsession
Today we’re digging deeper into the search engine dominance of wikis in Japan. Unfortunately, the best explanations I’ve uncovered thus far are specific to Wikipedia rather than wiki technology in general. I hope we can agree that Wikipedia is the cultural vanguard that paves the way for all future wiki projects. With that in mind, [read more...]
Trend Tracker: World Leaders in Wiki Adoption Revealed?
Japan is the runaway global leader in interest for wikis and now the whole world can see that thanks to newly available research tools. Since 2004 Japan has held a forty point lead over its nearest rival in adjusted Google search volume for the term “wiki”. Singapore was a distant second. The United Kingdom comes in [read more...]
