How to use the Wiki for business. Part 1

Wiki - one of the best tools on the Internet to work as a team, has gained wide acceptance in the past few years, thanks to his ability in business cooperation.

This software will save you from the problems with the documentation, which will be developed together with the project. However, like any tool, it requires proper use. If you are using the wiki, remember a few important points.

Firstly, it is a completely new approach to common problems. Explain your team, how the program works, it is necessary, but it is equally important to make sure that people know what it is and that they have the right to add to change the information if necessary.

Before the whole team will start working with the new tools, add the first few pages, titles that will offer a certain structure to people who are not used to start with a clean pages. Give them a foundation, and it is not only to expand, but also be preceded by the creation of new content with the appropriate structure.

As the team gets used to the wiki as an integral part of the work, you can use it just to keep track of how things are changing. Just add a special page for feedback and ideas on how to make the program to meet all the needs of the project. Its use will help colleagues to open the wiki as a source of knowledge and monitor their work.

At first, until your team is moving away from the old tools and old habits to manage documents, require specialist who will forward the information to the diplomatic wiki. Most often, instead of the software used by e-mail, but it is dangerous to limit the sharing of knowledge mailing list. It is important to insist that the sending of messages sent to a data channel wiki before they start to work for the long term and increase sales.

One way to awaken the team motivation and enthusiasm for the use of wiki - to arrange something like a competition. For example, you can implement an online system of "offsets" such as SocialRewarding extension, proposed MediaWiki. Points for using the program give your team an extra incentive to abandon old habits.

To be continued…

Use Wikis for Business Projects [Jeff Hobbs]