Blogbase is a new wiki I have started to put together resources on blogging, for beginners right through to seasoned bloggers.
Feel free to check it out, and please sign up to help build up the wiki!
Cross posted from MediaZilla
Wikis
Building wiki communities
Some great notes on what you can do to make your wikis a success.
Via Beth Kanter.
LocalGovGlossary now in LGSearch
The Local Government Glossary wiki project is going well, with four volunteers already adding content.
As this is an ever growing, and potentially significant resource, I’ve added the wiki to LGSearch.
Local Government Glossary
I facilitate the Community of Practice for Social Media and Online Collaboration over at the Improvement and Development Agency. We are a pretty new group, though with over 40 members, we aren’t doing too badly.
The aim of the group is to introduce people to social media tools and techniques and how they could be used within local government; and providing news and views on the latest developments in Web 2.0 type stuff.
We are also involved in a couple of projects, one of which is producing a community edited guide to social media, using the CoP’s wiki facility.
The other project has just been launched, and is really quite exciting, is the Local Government Glossary. This is a wiki based dictionary of local government terms and jargon, which we hope will become a Wikipedia for local government. We can but dream.
Anyway, the Glossary is hosted on the excellent Wikispaces, so it’s open to all – all you have to do is register and then you are free to start adding your knowledge and sharing it with the world!
A Wiki for your Desktop
My last post was about some of the benefits that wikis can have for an organisation. Of course, one of the issues with wikis is the fact that you have to get the agreement of your IT department for them to install one for you – the other option is to use a third party hosted solution, like the excellent Wikispaces, but you have to be sure that data is secure.
Another option, though, is to run the wiki from your desktop, and the perfect application to do this with is TiddlyWiki.
Tiddlywiki consists of a single html page, chock full of javascript, which you can download and start using straight away. By putting it on a shared network drive, say, you can share the wiki between an entire team. Other options might be to keep it as a personal organisational tool, on your USB key, for example.
I find TiddlyWiki to be the perfect electronic notebook, and a great way of showing people the benefits of wiki working. For exponents of Getting Things Done, there’s a special customised version available.