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Somewhat related to your last paragraph, I recently saw (on a mailing list) a diagram touting the increased productivity of using a wiki as a knowledge-base rat
by ojbyrne 18y ago
Somewhat related to your last paragraph, I recently saw (on a mailing list) a diagram touting the increased productivity of using a wiki as a knowledge-base rather than informal emails with documents attached, and the way it had the workflow diagrammed, the entire productivity increase was due to not having to open Word attachments.
- tptacek 18y agoAnd? Of course Word attachments suck. Pick your battle: do you want to convert your company from Office to wikis, or do you want to influence and complete the pricing model for your product? Caution: while you will almost certainly succeed at the latter, your odds on convincing businesspeople to stop using Office, or to respect Wiki pages (which I tried) or email messages are not good.
- ojbyrne 18y agoI didn't really have a point, but if I did, it wasn't in support of the wiki idea (or at least not using "productivity" as a way to sell it).
- run4yourlives 18y agoIt's all about audience. Wiki's work for techy people. Most CEO's and other management types don't even know what a wiki is, let alone use them for anything meaningful. Besides, you can read a word report on the plane, or over dinner, or while waiting for your next meeting. This is upper management's environment. Cater to that.