Rex Hammock's Wiki 101
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This is an 'annotated' version of slides I presented at the 2009 Barcamp Nashville, October 17. (Typically, I don't have many words on slides, but I added some before posting this online version.)
Rex Hammock's Wiki 101
- 3. Hypercard You installed this on this to do this.
- 4. Hypercard Basically, this was just this
- 5. Hypercard ...with hyperlinks. Abraham Lincoln 16th President of the United States served from March 1861 until April 1865. Born in Kentucky Had a beard, but no mustache. Kentucky Originally a part of Virginia, in 1792 it became the 15th state 37th largest state in terms of total area 36th largest in land area ranks 26th in population
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- 17. That ledto this
- 24. Anykindof information I consider IMDB.com a wiki.
- 25. Anykindof information But when it comes to searching for movie information, Google seems to like Wikipedia better.
- 26. Anykindof information Google "Starwars"and you'll get 2 wikis on the 鍖rst SERP.
- 28. Anykindof information For breaking news and complex topics, I believe a wiki provides a more 'native' model of using the web than traditional narrative news reporting.
- 29. Anykindof information NYTimes.com has recognized this, but Times Topics has not yet 鍖gured out the 'breaking' part.
- 30. Business ModelEveryone asks this, so I thought I'd throw some samples in. This company owns... and lots more wikis. (InternetBrands.com.)
- 31. Business Model Developing and managing enterprise (behind-the-鍖rewall) wikis for knowledge- managent and colloaborative work 鍖ow.
- 32. Business Model Providing customer or "supply chain" support for companies with mystery business models.
- 33. Business Model Intuit's TaxAlmanac.org serves "tax professionals," (i.e., the entire market for these products: http://proseries. intuit.com/).
- 34. Business Model Our company (http://hammock.com) maintains this wiki. Our business is helping companies and associations create and manage all types of customer and member media. (Note not-to-subtle product placement.)
- 35. SeeAlso:
- 36. SeeAlso: For the more technically inclined who want to host their own wiki.
- 37. SeeAlso: Play around on Google sites. Check out Wetpaint & Wikia.
- 38. SeeAlso: I believe any CMS that allows you to create "pages" is a potential wiki platform. http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages
- 40. Seed Feed Weed Twomorethings: 2SecretsofWikis The only metaphor you'll ever need for wiki success.
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- 42. ExternalLinks: http://RexBlog.com rexhammock@gmail.com @r Creative Commons license for this: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/