He correctly points out that wikis save every edit, allowing for easy recovery and collaboration. There are times - particularly when I'm working on an article with an editor - that the granular Track Changes readout fits the bill better than a wiki's revision history, because I'm interested in seeing every small grammatical correction. But, for the bulk of writing that I do now, which is intended for sharing on the web, Wikis put Word to shame. An award-winning friend of mine at NTEN referred me to this article , by Jeremy Reimer , suggesting that Word, the ubiquitous Microsoft text manipulation application, has gone the way of the dinosaur.

information, but there are still some tasks to be done. Most Most importantly, we need to update the wiki: http://hurricanewiki.org . We need volunteers to review the wiki section by section and make sure that If you plan to work on a section of the wiki, please Source: Weather Channel Alerts 2009 was looking like a very uneventful hurricane season.  That is until Hurricane Ida slammed into El Salvador killing 91 people as of this writing. 

I'm following up on my post suggesting that Wikis should be grabbing a portion of the market from word processors. Wikis are convenient collaborative editing platforms that remove a lot of the legacy awkwardness that traditional editing software brings to writing for the web. There are a lot of use cases for Wikis: We can all thank Wikipedia for bringing the excellent crowd-sourced knowledgebase functionality to broad attention. Gone are useless print formatting functions like pagination and margins; huge file sizes; and the need to email around multiple versions of the same document.

I've created a wikitation site (presentation as wiki) to house the presentation materials and for some basic primers/factsheets I hope to write. (All The planning wiki (very much a work in progress right now) is here . #3 Where do I find more information? (Disclosure: Click To Play John Kenyon tells you why video blogging is useful for nonprofits. John Kenyon was also at the LASA Circuit Riders Conference in Birmingham with me earlier this month.

thought about that story when I saw Dave Cormier's Connectivism Wiki or MOOC (Massive Online Open Courses). The philosophy is: I'd suggest we follow the ADD DON'T TAKE AWAY model of wiki building. Just disagreeable topic with your opinion. So, I asked Dave via Twitter " Wow do you build a giving culture on a wiki?" If you have kids, you probably also read bedtime stories to them. In our house, we've read everything from Horton Hears a Who to Good Night Moon.

Facilitated by members of the Membership Section Council, it was all about getting a bunch of us membership people in a room to start writing the basis for membership-related entries in the ASAE's Associapedia , which as you can probably figure out, is the ASAE's wiki for all association-related knowledge. There's been a lot of talk in association circles about wikis; the best way to implement them, what programs to use, from freebies to fully integrated systems, etc etc. I attended an Idea Swap at ASAE this morning. But I find that setting up the wiki is the easy part.

I slapped a list of blogs in my wiki for me. (I'll rudimentary and not very informative. It's part of helping people to easily adopt RSS readers as an information coping skill can't do that anymore which is a normal part of aging or a by-product of consuming too much information called Internet Alzheimers. It I'll explain why in a minute) Someone posted the url to a listserv. Another person responded It's just another list (that is obsolete as soon as its posted).

The Meyer Memorial Trust launched their connectipedia today. "Like many foundations, MMT has been building a "knowledge management" system to archive information in an accessible way to help us be the best grantmakers we can be. But we've been approaching this task with a bigger end in mind. Why, we asked ourselves, would we set up a system that only MMT could use when the need for good information is shared by other foundations... and nonprofit organizations and public agencies and official decision makers and citizen volunteers and... in fact, everyone working for the

The second phase of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) will be taking place next month Tunsia. WSIS has just released a special report " Information Society: The Next Steps " that looks at how the ICT landscape is changing in the developing world and what lies ahead. Check out the section on blogs and wikis . Experts from governments, donors, NGOs and the private sector speak out about effective policies, promising applications and innovative business models. Technorati Tags: net2 , nptec

What's a wiki? Wikis are websites that are extremely easy for anyone (even you!) While there are some criticisms of its consensus-based model for information-vetting, there's no doubt of its success as a collaborative knowledge-creation project. Its success can distort understanding of what makes a wiki work. What makes them succeed? This post explores the mysteries of Web 2.0's