It's obvious that a Wiki would be a great help in my organization. A few years ago we started using SharePoint and now ... we need a quicker way to get an answer in a pinch. I believe a Wiki would be a great addition to our systems so that it ... the manual to the appropriate chapter to find their answer. So, we know we need a Wiki. Now, how do we make it happen? Here is what I have identified as our options: SharePoint Wiki - SharePoint 07 offers some basic Wiki options that ... experience and install MediaWiki behind the firewall. I proposed this to IT management and I am hitting some roadblocks that ...

Alarm bells go off when I hear someone say "Our company has this management training program..." Usually this means ... ill-advised "teamwork" sessions when the manager gets back to the office. "Oh no - the boss has been to another management training session. I wonder if I have enough vacation days...." And I'll admit to having that reaction when I ... story about my favorite manager. I was secretly hoping that someone would "get it", connect some of the dots, and ... managers, their employees, and the managers managers will be a cheap way to mentor and support ANY manager. Not just ...

My office has been playing around with the Google Sites wiki for the last few weeks ( I've written about Google Sites before. ) We've been using it to collaboratively author mini-reports as well as staff meeting agendas. I would like to try to use a wiki site to track an online course development project. It would be a place where the project team could define goals, publish milestones, post files and monitor progress on project activities. I think Google Sites would ... my next project. Today I came across someone else who has built a nice Google Sites template for project management ...

While I'm on the topic of enterprise wikis I might as well plug my session for The eLearning Guild's Online Forum that kicked off today: An Introduction to e-Learning: The A to Z for Getting Started Concurrent Session Block 4 ... 502 | An Introduction to Blogs, Wikis, and RSS - New Technologies for e-Learning Brent Schlenker ... Keys to Successfully Implement e-Learning: Engaged Learners, Motivated Managers, Energized Organizations Lance Dublin ... Management ...

Main Page From EduTech Wiki Jump to: navigation , search Welcome to EduTech Wiki EduTech Wiki is about Educational Technology ( instructional technology ) and related ... . Objectives - this wiki can be used as: resource kit for educational technology teaching; note taking tool for ... purpose of this site). This wiki contains 795 articles. The french version has less and different contents. Send questions to Daniel K. Schneider (he " owns " this wiki and is to blame for most contents). Other major ...

Four Tips for Managing Workplace wikis Okay, so maybe its only a WSJ blog, but its still The Wall Street Journal...right?

In my Ten Predictions for eLearning for 2008 , I said - Wiki + SCORM + Add-ins will become more common for easy authoring. Not sure if he saw my post, but I was just reminded by Tim Seager from Xerceo about their Prescribe tool that provides: Full Wiki, RSS functionality that is SCORM conformant for tracking and managing competencies. He also pointed me to a video that shows the tool in action. However, this video may be the worst video I've ever seen in terms of ... that I see in using a Wiki for authoring... A Wiki should make course authoring extremely easy and even easier to ...

... companies right now. Significant increases in productivity with a wiki. The productivity increases are really what interests me in this webinar. We use the wiki for our team, but I wonder what we can do to be more effective with it, as well as how we can help other departments in the company. Templates Use templates on the wiki to make it ... heavily Document Repository: Use wiki to hold templates and documents. Used color coding to show current/prior versions of documents Security: They have passwords visible on the wiki, but that’s OK b/c the security of ...

Internet Time Wiki View Edit To edit this page, request access to the wiki. Already have an account? Log in ... knowledge management. What happened? We fumbled the implementation. We naively expected workers to flock to the glowing ... support through change management and (2) offer worthwhile learning experiences and sell them to the learners. Too little ... Internet-enabled learning. Components can include content delivery in multiple formats, management of the learning ...

... be able to share with us. What You Will Learn: What an enterprise wiki might look like . How to evaluate the need for a Social Learning Strategy How others are utilizing a wiki for knowledge management and just-in-time ... company that provides enterprise wiki solutions.  Cindy has helped many companies, large and small, to implement wikis for Social Learning. Cindy will show us the reasons for establishing a wiki and the process for making it a reality in our organizations. She will also give us some case studies and show us the how a wiki can and will help us ...

Found via Donald Clark - Business Week article - The Wiki Workplace that discusses use of Wikis and Blogs and particularly their use. Geek Squad is a case in point. Many thousands of Geeks are using a growing suite of collaboration technologies to brainstorm new products and services, manage projects, swap service tips, and socialize with their peers. At Xerox, Chief Technology Officer Sophie VanDebroek turned the process inside out by setting up a wiki that would ... Innovation Jams. Wikis, blogs, and other tools will arrive in the workplace whether companies are ready or not, ...

Found via 7 Days and More , interesting article on InternetNews.com - Why Wikis Are Conquering The Enterprise by Michael Hickins . Couple of thoughts from the article: adoption is coming mainly from project managers and department-level executives not senior management (and, of course, corporate learning was not mentioned) "In almost every big corporation, some group is already using a wiki," said Andrew McAfee, associate professor of technology and operations management at the Harvard Business School. This echoes what I've been seeing as well. It's kinda like Web Servers, ...

... register My Brilliant Failure: Wikis In Classrooms ... this was a failure: Aiming for communal constructivism in a wiki environment I had a brilliant failure using wiki in ... through my head. I wanted to share with the participants my experience of collaborating in a wiki environment, and how ... the most effective. But finally, I ended up using wiki as pumped-up PowerPoint. It turns out I changed the tool, but did not change the practice. It was WikiLite. I was using wiki during a six-week workshop on visual design in ...

... eLearning Tools - Wikis, Blogs and More : eLearning Technology Found via Donald Clark - Business Week article - The Wiki Workplace that discusses use of Wikis and ... collaboration technologies to brainstorm new products and services, manage projects, swap service tips, and socialize ... wiki that would allow researchers in the R&D group to define collaboratively the companys technology strategy. IBM uses it for Innovation Jams. Wikis, blogs, and other tools will arrive in the workplace whether companies are ready ...

Managing in the Information Age. I tell my students that about half their grade will be based on wiki contributions. So ... Andrew about the use of Wikis in the enterprise. A couple of things jumped out at me: Sean Silverthorne: Is ... to the corporate encyclopedia? But an encyclopedia is only one of the things you can build with wiki technology. This is a somewhat strange answer. In my experience, Wikis often start (and sometimes end) as an easier-to-use replacement for ... content management system or to hand-craft web pages and go through a painful posting process. The new way is to use ...

... of the learning environment. Get teachers to express their ideas (in the online collaborative document - ahum wiki ...

There's been a long running discussion around what Knowledge Management is going to look like going forward and whether big systems that manage knowledge are going to be there. For example, see Bill Ives' recent post , and Paula Thorton . As I read through these, I began to wonder what happened to the idea that KM was going to move along the lines of ... -form tools like Wikis, blogs. Structure would come from a layer on top such as social bookmarking and digg, and, of course ... . Am I missing something here? Do we really think that there will be a new wave of Enterprise Knowledge Management ...

Yesterday eLearning Guild announced their Member's Choice Awards for Learning Management Systems (LMS). Now I don't ... SumTotals was little ol' open-source Moodle: Award for market share - Small and Medium Corporate Learning Management Systems - Platinum award: Moodle. Award for market share - Education and Government Learning Management Systems - Gold award: Moodle (the Platinum went to Blackboard). Award for satisfaction - Small and Medium Corporate Learning Management Systems - Platinum award: Moodle. Award for satisfaction - Education and Government Learning Management Systems - ...

... wikis may help. Once again top level support, legitimization and walking the talk - leading via example is the ...

... better supported by Web 2.0 applications (blogs, wikis, social networking) or by Learning Management ... Course Management Systems and Pedagogy © Lisa M. Lane 2007 Course Management ... , or how teaching is impacted by the systems. With the emergence of new CMSs (also called Learning Management ... . Course management systems, by virtue of their intent and design, create limitations on faculty independence ... move toward standardization as a way to ease management issues (Danaher et al 2004, Katz ...

Management) Gary Woodill forwarded a link to a .pdf download of a new book “ Plan to Learn: Case Studies of Elearning Project Management . It’s a useful exploration (Canadian-centric) of case studies in elearning projects ... Connectivism Content Content Management Copyright/IP/DRM Design Elearning Evaluation/Assessment/ROI Games/Simulations Information Architecture Innovation Instructional Design Knowledge Management Learning Learning ... Wiki Wireless/PDAs XML Recent Comments EDITing in the Dark » Who was/am/will I ...

... lighting demo on the Engineering Learning Wiki . My thanks to Luke Frankl and his camera ! See my other Minnebar ...

This post is part of the Friday series "LMSs that kick ass.” I'll be highlighting one Learning Management System (LMS) every Friday. This week it’s Generation21 (Gen21). I spoke with John Stearns from Gen21 about the ... media - collaborative authoring, wiki's, messaging, message boards, interactive web environments, content rating, library ... "hook," but most development investment seems to go into non- LMS components. Secondly, there's the Talent Management ... the resources and time to filter content (wiki's for example - contributions need to be vetted) or trust that the ...

EDUCAUSE Review > Archive > Volume 40, Number 3, May/June 2005 > From Course Management to Curricular Capabilities: From Course Management to Curricular Capabilities ... this article From Course Management to Curricular Capabilities: A Capabilities Approach for the Next-Generation CMS Van Weigel This article appears as chapter 12 in Course Management Systems for Learning: Beyond Accidental ... contemporary course management system (CMS) is both a blessing and curse for our evolving understanding of the value of ...

James Robertson's excellent Column Two blog pointed me to an interesting article by Seth Gottlieb - Email and Content Management which provides some practical suggestions about how to move from email based content management towards better mechanisms. While I agree with Seth's main contention that email, especially email with attachments, makes content management much harder, I actually think that Seth is swimming against a very, very strong current and is probably ... appropriate persistence and searchability characteristics (e.g., wikis), I think that most users are not heading ...

Social software: E-learning beyond learning management systems Christian Dalsgaard [ cnd@imv.au.dk ... learning management systems and engage students in an active use of the web as a resource for their self-governed ... move e-learning beyond learning management systems. An approach to use of social software in support of a social constructivist approach to e-learning is presented, and it is argued that learning management systems do not support a ... limitation of the use of learning management systems to cover only administrative issues. Further, it is argued ...

Learning Management System (LMS). First up is Cornerstone OnDemand . I met Charles Coy, Director, Product Marketing, at our ... location, alumni networks, etc.) and user-generated content/Web 2.0 features (blogs, wikis, syndication, surveys/polls ... that Cornerstone is, first and foremost, a talent management company. Cornerstone Connect aims to amplify the talent management processes our clients are already engaged in by providing complementary and supplementary capabilities. The following are some of Cornerstone's explicit business cases for social networking in talent management: § ...

Email, Knowledge/Content Management - Email as a Future Application Interface ... interesting article by Seth Gottlieb - Email and Content Management which provides some practical suggestions about how to move from email based content management towards better mechanisms. While I agree with Seths main contention that email, especially email with attachments, makes content management much harder, I actually think that Seth is swimming ... migrated to other kinds of vehicles with more appropriate persistence and searchability characteristics (e.g., wikis ...

EDUCAUSE Review > Archive > Volume 41, Number 4, July/August 2006 > Managing Courses, Defining Learning: What Faculty, Students, and Administrators Want Managing ... / ). EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 41, no. 4 (July/August 2006): 50–71. Managing Courses, Defining Learning: What Faculty ... Learning/Course Management Systems (L/CMSs) has exploded in higher education. Recently, the authors served as editors for a book, Course Management Systems for Learning, which explored current L/CMS design and usage by documenting ...

Kanter: About Beth Kanter: Hire Me Beth Kanter: Wiki Portfolio ... widgets wifi wiki wordpress ... or Part of Your Job Or Combination? Tips for managing multi-memberships in social networks? Source ... ) hosted an online conference about Managing Multi Memberships in Social Networks .  I had wanted to participate, but ... anxiously holding on situation under control, have strategies to manage guilty that I am not more active in all ...