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Documentation Planning and Library Design in a Web 2.0 World
Extending the Value of Content in Enterprise Systems with Web Content Management
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Living Multiple Lives: The New Technical Communicator
Making XML Technology Accessible
Manage Your Messaging with Machine-Assisted Editing and Large Scale Sentence-level Reuse
Mapping the Entire Global Content Supply Chain
On the Road to Modular Training Content
Once Content is in XML. Now what?
Putting Everything Back Together Again
See Dynamic Publishing in Action!
Taking Our Information Assets to the Next Level
The In.vision DITA Enterprise Suite for Microsoft Word and SharePoint
Understanding and Communicating the Financial Impact of XML and DITA
Understanding Component Content Management
Using Collaborative Tools for Virtual Team Management
Using Task Modeler to Streamline DITA Content Development
What Technical Communicators Need to Know about Flash
Wikis Are Wonderful, or Are They? A Real World Story of Using Wikis For User Information
Writing Reusable Content to Support Content Models
[Workshop] Moving from Unstructured Documents to Structured XML
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Session Details
How Do You Grow Wiki Use?
Speaker: Stewart MaderTime: 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM Date: May 7
Track: Blogs and Wikis
Experience level: All levels
Room: Dundarave Room
Laptop computer required for this session There is no ‘right’ way to use a wiki. The fantastic thing about wikis, and the reason they have been so successful, is that they are built from the ground up by the people who use them. That way, the structure of a wiki, and how it is used, comes to mirror how the people using the wiki want to structure it, how they want to use it.
On Wikipatterns.com, a growing community is using the wiki to document the patterns of wiki use present in their own wikis. The site contains a toolbox of patterns and anti-patterns, and a guide to major stages of wiki adoption that explores patterns to apply at each stage. Applying these patterns can help coordinate peoples’ efforts and guide the growth of content on a wiki, and recognizing anti-patterns that might hinder growth - can give a wiki the greatest chance of success.
This workshop/presentation will give an overview of Wikipatterns.com, explore some patterns from the site, give practical guidelines on how to apply patterns to a new or existing wiki. Attendees will also learn strategies for wiki adoption from a range of organizations, like Sun Microsystems, Johns Hopkins University, LeapFrog, and more.
