[Mediawiki-l] Benefits of using wiki in a corporate environment-how to convience?

[George Herbert]

On the followup question - yes.  You need to have the landing pad
"main page" visible to anyone, but you can create a group memberships
structure with a custom group that keeps anyone from accessing content
unless you approve them.  That isn't super-secure, but gets you
reasonably far towards a secure semi or acceptably private wiki that's
on the internet.

On the original question, there are a bunch of books on intranet
collaboration tools (including Wikis) within organizations.  It's been
reasonably common within organizations I've been at, though some have
used Twiki or Plone or another one instead of MediaWiki.  I advocate
for it, and prefer using MediaWiki.

Some good resources:

Shirky's "Here Comes Everybody" and "Cognitive Surplus" books,
Tapscott and Williams "Wikinomics" book and the many magazine and web
articles that came out of that linked off the Wikipedia article on
Wikinomics.

There's a lot more; those will get you started.


-george

On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 7:08 PM, Bruce Whealton
<bwhealton at futurewavedesigns.com> wrote:
> I have a follow-up question or related question... can you use mediawiki to
> setup a private wiki that would exist on the web?  I have in mind something
> for a non-profit... They wouldn't have the funds to pay for virtual private
> hosting or anything... so this may not be the thing to use.  I just know
> that a wiki can be easy to use and that most folks do have internet
> access... as does the organization in question.
> Bruce
>
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> to convience?
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> Well, so being a mediawiki savvy I realize how using mediawiki can benefit a
> small to medium scale enterprise.
>
> Recently I have being asked task to convience my executive management team
> about benefits of using an internal corporate mediawiki in the organization
> (say 60 to 80 people). What are some good pointers/resources that I can
> point them to?
>
> I would like to avoid the route of me telling them as to why I think it will
> be useful. Rather it  would be good if I can give them a 3rd party resources
> or even testimonials from this mailing list which explains in general that
> how can mediawiki benefit an organization.
>
> Your inputs will be greatly appreciated!
>
> Thanks
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-george william herbert
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