On Friday I did a joint presentation at TAFE's ICVET Conference about using wikis in Education. As has been the case in other wiki presentations I have done, the widespread interest in wiki techology meant that demand outstripped the expectations of the organisers and the session quickly filled up. Unfortunately, because of the lack of space, my fellow Web2.0 enthusiast Stephan could not get in to record the session.
My co presenter, Kara Whittingham, showed a series of Wikispaces pages that she has used for her language classes, so I can't reproduce her work effectively here, but I have used SlideShare to publish a copy of my presentation below. It would have been great to have the audio that Stephan wanted to capture, but 'due to popular demand', you can't have it!
The first half of the presentation is general wiki stuff, which is probably not very enlightening to readers of this blog, but the end of the presentation contains a few slides about 'wiki behaviours' where I outline some of the behaviours that effective wiki users tend to adopt over time. I would be particularly interested in comments that people have about wiki behaviours.
My fellow wiki enthusiast, Andrew Mitchell from Urbis just sent me a link to a short and well written case study of wiki usage at a Sydney based company, Jenssen-Cilag. The CIO, Nathan Wallace, talks about how they used a wiki to rebuild their Intranet. You can see the case study on Nathan's blog
Replacing an existing Intranet with a wiki based solution can be a very successful way to introduce wiki technology into a corporation with a minimum of fuss. Nathan's experience is very similar to that of a number of companies that I have worked with and helps to show an Intranet upgrade is becoming one of the standard wiki adoption patterns.
Once a wiki is deployed widely in an organisation as the Intranet, then other benefits of using wikis in a work environment can be explored in a secure and sanctioned environment.
Those of you who read this blog may have noticed that I did a presentation about wikis to the NSW KM forum's monthly meeting in March. "How did it go?" I hear you ask. Well, it seems that people who are interested in Knowledge Management are also very interested in wikis so there was a lot of interest but there was not enough seating at the venue and many were turned away.
Fortunately for those who missed out in March, James Dellow has very kindly asked me to come back and do it again. If you did make it last time, don't worry, I won't be just doing the same old stuff. This time Andrew Mitchell will be joining me to provide a case study of his experiences at Urbis.
Sorry about the late notice, but if you are interested in attending, please see the details at the NSW KM Forum blog. Apparent there will be lots of seating available, but you might want to RSVP early just in case!
