[html4all] Articles: New Organizations and Wiki Collaboration

[Laura Carlson]

For your information, a couple of articles on new organizations and
Wiki collaboration:

In a recent post regarding a new web standards Facegroup group,
Jeffery Zeldman made the following observation, "I am curious whether
the new group will become a passive affinity group or something more.
By passive affinity group, I mean the kind of group people join to
show they belong - and then don't do much, if anything, once they've
joined. For instance, hundreds of thousands of people joined a
Facebook group in support of the monks' protest in Burma. Everyone who
joined supports free speech and democracy, but only a tiny handful of
group members create content or begin initiatives. For the few who are
active, membership in the Burmese monk support group is an act of
political and spiritual engagement. But for most members, it's
passive. This is true of all social groups (online and off) and nearly
all human activities..."
http://www.zeldman.com/2007/11/02/dwws-facebook-group/

Also an article by Maish Nichani, Planning and Sustaining Wiki-based
Collaboration:
"Many organizations are experimenting with wiki-based collaboration
projects. But only a small percentage of these projects make it past
the initial excitement or pilot phase. One of the reasons for the
drop-off is that there's not enough thought given to them other than
deciding which wiki product to install. This article presents a
framework that can help groups wanting to use wikis for internal
projects better plan and sustain their collaboration efforts..."
http://tinyurl.com/yt7yor

-- 
Laura L. Carlson