blogs & wikis for learning Also found wikis can serve dual purposes as hyper-linked blogs, perfect for brainstorming, concept development and problem-solving, especially if to accelerate alignment for innovative or design-based project teams.

Start off by identifying challenges and forming key terms to explore and enable strategy-making opportunities with SMEs as guides. An off-line meeting or interactive workshop/activity can be leveraged in order to structure materials for on-line documentation and discussion.

Indeed, commercial potentials of using wikis to empower collaborative project teams are fast emerging, extending generally from IT departments, as the usual point of entry, throught to HR and sales and marketing.

http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/03/25/13FEblogwiki-rev4_1.html

In short, wikis can boost performance of existing intranets, become a dynamic knowledge base for legacy migration, or help coordinate larger intiatives such as collaborating with different departments, vendors, distributors, stakeholders, etc.

david sean lester
wwww.knowledgeswap.ca