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Stewart Mader: The Wiki Master

Saturday, May 17, 2008

There’s not many humans on the planet that know more about wikis that Stewart Mader. Wherever folks are talking about wiki technology, you’ll find Mader, explaining how wikis work, how to get folks to use them, how to govern them, and how to use them to solve various ...

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5 Reasons The “Wikipedia Secret Mailing List” Isn’t A Big Dealhttp://www.ikiw.org

Wednesday, December 12, 2007

By Stewart Mader, special to The Content Wrangler

There’s been a dust-up in the past few days about an alleged secret mailing list that some administrators on Wikipedia were using to privately communicate without getting input from the larger community.

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Wikis For Documentation? Anne Gentle Provides Some Examples

Friday, November 09, 2007

Wikis are web-based publishing tools that provide collaborative authoring capabilities to anyone with appropriate editing permission and a web browser connected to the internet. While the most popular wiki is by far Wikipedia, these browser-based tools are increasingly ...

Filed under: Technical Writing : User-Generated Content : Wikis

PBWiki Makes Collaboration Easy

Friday, September 21, 2007

Recently, we been talking a lot about Web 2.0 and the new breed of web-based tools that are helping folks with little or no special web programming skills produce, manage, and deliver content to those who need it. Most often, readers ask us about wikis, web-based ...

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Don’t Fear The Wiki

Saturday, September 15, 2007

By Dan Ortega, Vice President of Marketing, Astoria Software

There have been a number of posts recently regarding the validity and role of wikis as an information delivery vehicle in a corporate setting. Part of the concern is the unregulated nature of how a wiki ...

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Anne Gentle vs JoAnn Hackos: Is There a Documentation Wiki In Your Future?

Friday, August 31, 2007

By Anne Gentle, special to TheContentWrangler.com

JoAnn Hackos’ recent article titled Is a Documentation Wiki in your Future? struck a chord with me because of my upcoming article about wikis for technical documentation in the September/October issue of STC’s

Filed under: Publishing : Technical Writing : Productivity Tools : Wikis

The Hype is Real: Social Media Invades the Inc. 500

Monday, April 09, 2007

The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth’s Center for Marketing Research conducted a nationwide telephone survey of those companies named by Inc. Magazine to the Inc. 500 list for 2006 under the direction of blog researchers Eric Mattson and Nora Ganim Barnes. Nearly ...

Filed under: Blogs & Blogging : Podcasts : Wikis

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