Xerceo is a new WIKI that just hit my inbox. So, I've had no time to use it and therefore this is NOT a review. Its the concept that interests me. I've been thinking about this type of editable "course" ever since my first introduction to wikis. However, its been a tough nut to crack. I am happy to see that someone has taken the first shot at a commercial product to do this. But I'm sure this is something we will begin to see in the open source products soon as ... guessing each wiki page is like a learning object that is tagged. If you select a tag then you get all of the ...

Google finally gets into the Wiki game by re-launching the product they acquired last year (JotSpot) under a a new name: Google Sites. See this description of the product via TechCrunch blog. I'll be trying it!

Kilpi from Finland. What a great name. Check out his article in Nokia People titled The Power of Peer Production . Its a big .jpg file but at full screen it's readable. Affiliation through personal choice: "Peer production is the ... success of Gore and its unique corporate structure. You should google it. Esko nails the power of wikis in the ...

... 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 ... productivity in less than a year. Q: Did you have a wiki before? A: No, they just used central file sharing. He had never ... heavily Document Repository: Use wiki to hold templates and documents. Used color coding to show ...

Not sure what this means for elearning, but I really like Adobe and so its fun to see them stepping out and taking some big risks with new products and playing in the Web2.0 space a little more. So read/write web stacked up these three ... year. Seeing big product announcements makes me wonder what fabulous new tools, and/or upgrades, are being prepared for the learning industry. Adobe Labs - And on a side note read/write web pointed to the Adobe Labs wiki . You can ... of a useful corporate wiki.

Internet Time Wiki View Edit To edit this page, request access to the wiki. Already have an account? Log in ... horrendous. After-the-fact finger pointing is not productive. I dont use the term eLearning much these days ... product cycles, competitive intelligence, industry information and corporate strategies are moving and changing so much ... the work environment. Todays workforce has to process more information in a shorter amount of time. New products ...

... below in Wikipedia. I received an email asking me if I knew of any Wikis that provided information on eLearning concepts ... really a place where you can find a Wiki that covers eLearning concepts. But the answer is much more interesting than ... 2.0 . However, Wikipedia has some issues (as does any public Wiki) as a place for defining these terms. The issue is how you balance commercial activity (e.g., vendors posting a link to their product) vs. being a comprehensive resource vs ... tricky is what do you do about having a page on Rapid eLearning that might list products that are rapid eLearning ...

... thinking. Call it innovation. Everyone loves design but no one wants to call it design. No Rest for the Wiki - Business ... rules of collaboration. Although Intel's wiki ruffled feathers - some employees don't like being edited by colleagues ... & Associates There was the IBM PC Junior, the RT-PC, the 9370 Minicomputer, and many more. These products, often the ... the leaders of these products were not fired or demoted - rather they were forced to "learn from these mistakes" and ...

How does your engineering design process stack up? or down? MIT's Steven Eppinger who is the Deputy Dean of the Sloan School of Management was recently interviewed on what aspects of product design are needed by successful companies. Professor Eppinger also leads MIT's executive seminar: Product Design, Development and Management . He is also authors a text on this subject. Podcast: Product Development Trends and Innovations I have added this to the Engineering Learning Wiki podcast page .

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, ...

... 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 ...

... of years, IBM has incorporated the wiki and other collaborative software into its corporate products like Lotus Notes, a ... Newsweek: International Editions How Wiki Software is Changing Communication How wiki software ... trend. Wiki softwareâ??easy-to-use programs that let anyone with Internet access create, remove and edit content on a ... the mainstream, being adopted by workplaces, corporations and even governments. In whats been dubbed the "wiki workplace ... collaborative networks, using wiki softwareâ??a basket of technologies that include wikis, blogs and other ...

... and Share Your Research Easily » Create & Edit a Wiki-Style Website as a Class ... wiki about your class and allow people to access it for things like your course outline and syllabus. But that would be way ... importance is in the communication and teamwork. Here is a Word document outlining the basics of creating your first Wiki ... to “Create & Edit a Wiki-Style Website as a Class” on 18 Oct 2007 at 9:01 am ... Phone Polls Presentations Productivity Resources Security Site News Student ...

Moving from One to Many - LMS Products are Two Generations Behind : eLearning ... Many that discusses the disconnect of what LMS products are focusing on "competency mapping and effective resource ... learning experience. While I welcome LMS products providing these kinds of capabilities, I am worried that we are ... . Further, the fact that hes suggesting that they need to get on-board with collaboration suggests that LMS products are two ... helps the individual and by helping the individual it helps the collective. Making LMS products bigger, more ...

LMS products are focusing on "competency mapping and effective resource management" vs. what Bob sees as the overall ... products providing these kinds of capabilities, I am worried that we are about to see another whole cascade of LMS ... they need to get on-board with collaboration suggests that LMS products are two cycles behind. Focusing on job roles, teams ... individual it helps the collective. Making LMS products bigger, more complex is likely the exactly wrong way to go. In fact, there may be some big opportunity for more nimble players on the low end based on simple publishing (think Wiki ...

Alongside Formal Learning Blog as writing tool Wiki as a collaborative learning tool Editable reference materials (Wiki) Internal / External Product information Process information Sales scenarios Frequently Asked ... senior staff through a wiki to learn from one another in starting at corp questions and answers used a wiki to collect data from managers instead of surveying them Vodcasts wikis and semantic engine for knowledge management and mining classroom extension / preclass work wiki for java programmers sharing info about sustainable practices throughout ...

... onewisdom WhatsaWiki Search wiki ... & Learning With Technology Brown Bag Session (19 September 2006)   Whats a Wiki? An introduction to the educational uses of an online collaboration tool known as a wiki. Heres the video link for this presentation ... online three-ring binder" >> A wiki is a collection of web pages that can be easily edited by anyone, at any time, from anywhere.   >> Wiki pages are, by default, open but they can be configured to give selective access, or may ...

Online collaboration does not just occur in a wiki or with Web 2.0 products, one exciting, and sometimes forgotten, method of online collaboration is within a virtual classroom envrionment. Recently I conducted a session online in a virtual classroom using breakout rooms. It was fun and educational. You can read about it on my post Collaborating in a Virtual Classroom at the TrainingDay Blog . __ Recommended Games and Gadgets Recommended Books Content ...

For those of you not subscribed to the LearnTech RSS feed or following c4lptnews on Twittter , here are some recent items: SocialText 3.0 - SocialText moves from a wiki product to a connected collaboration platform Swirrl - A web application that allows your team to store, share, edit and analyze information Twitter Grader - Evaluate your Twitter profile For the complete list of news items go to LearnTech ...

The Power of Wikis in Higher Ed Interview with Stewart Mader on how wikis can be used in higher ed for teaching, research, and administration. He discusses issues of “ownership” of content and how using a wiki can make assessment easier. tags: wiki , highered , education , productivity , assessment Ignatia Webs: My top ...

... and feedback you receive has been constructive. You feel "productive". Certain puzzles are beginning to make sense ... work world who have implemented wikis as part of their day-to-day work. Informal findings: - The groups using and editing the wiki are small and know each other from their day-to-day work. - No anonymous posting. And since they already ... editor is the guy who provides wiki access to the team. - It is an expectation among them (encouraged by each group's management and driven by peers) to update their portions of the Wiki as needed. - Other folks update the wiki as they ...

... it appears in a collaborative wiki. The results of this "fine tuning" are fed to the marketing department who runs the ideas by focus groups, who then feedback to the product development team, who, in turn, writes the results on the collaborative wiki for the research scientists to view. The scientists tweak their work based on the feedback and, again, post the changes to the collaborative wiki. The product development team takes the refined information and creates the new ... company, compiled and posted to the wiki for future product enhancements and re-designs. Scientists and others are ...

In this age of information, and rapid change, the ability to intelligently assimilate information and make correct product development decisions is imperative. Product life cycles are shortening year by year. The answer seems to be innovate or die. However, in this era of constant changes, it is also necessary to continously optimize your design / product development process. Yesterday while conducting research, I stumbled upon an excellent resource, the Lean Advancement ... Management Section of the Engineering Learning Wiki . If the subject of lean interests you, link to my earlier post ...

... researching an article on knowledge worker productivity. He asked me if the subject is important. I said yes, and mouthed the old Peter Drucker chestnut that "making knowledge work productive is the greatest economic challenge of this century ... Internet offering feels that using the term is an essential part of its product description. Further evidence is given ... . Wikis: Enabling Effective Knowledge Sharing Across the Organization - Intelligent Enterprise "Wiki" is currently one ... many people. But what are wikis, are they important, what benefits do they provide and are they being used ...

... environments which often push employees to make "safe" decisions?  After all, isn't product feature creep the easiest way to enhance what one already knows? Our customers always want more enhancements to existing products, or so we ... Yahoo portal or the MS Office suite of products. Compare and contrast these examples to the Google user interface. I suspect ... search engine / RSS viewer . I also maintain an engineering podcast wiki section as part of the Engineering Learning Wiki.

Perhaps the convergence of forums, wikis and blogs is the next web 2.0 killer app - Collaborative Learning Of all Enterprise 2.0 tools like wikis, blogs, tagging, the outsider the "discussion forum", might be the easiest to introduce and often with clear immediate value." No Rest for the Wiki - Business Week In late 2005, Intel engineer Josh Bancroft needed a tool that his colleagues could use to share company information, from historical highlights to ... products that work quite well for many people, but rarely for the specialized uses that require serious ongoing support ...

Javascript turned on in your browser. Please try again when you make this change. Wiki Products Demos ... ; Testimonials «Congratulations to the development of an excellent wiki . I selected it after a comprehensive internet search for the best wiki.» Gerhard Fritz, Bloemfontein «Lean and very easy to use application.» Chris Stephenson, Olive Tree «... have been searching for a usable wiki with good clear interface for many ... great product.» Daniel Flohr, Sequentric «The interface is as simple as one can get.» Ken Molay, ...

Davids versus Goliath: a comparison of wikis versus Blackboard CMS - ZDNet can Web 2.0 tools truly replace something as big as a CMS? In my analysis, the answer is a resounding yes. Whereas Blackboard was designed for instructors, wikis were made for everyone. Blackboard is big, and has more features than most people will ever use. Wiki is small, and ... : Blackboard is something designed to do everything, and the wiki is something that can do everything because of its design ... itself as the one serious competitor to Microsoft's utterly dominant Internet Explorer. Yet its products are free. Its ...

... the most productive people, the brightest people -- have the toughest problems to solve. That makes it hard to compare ... performance. Engaged employees stay on the job longer, and they are safer, more productive, and more profitable. Tags ... U.S. Adds Wiki to Spy Arsenal - Wired The wiki could lead to more accurate intelligence reports because the system ... : Wiki ...

Effective use of UML can dramatically increase your software productivity. In this world of short product life cycles, you need to learn how to more effectively write software code. Although resources that explain how to create applications using UML techniques have been few and far between ... or too general in nature, thankfully that situation is beginning to change. Here is a new resource I discovered this morning. Expand the thumbnail for a better view. Sun UML ... Learning Wiki Software and Engineering Tools pages. .   ...