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Article: Wiki: the new way to collaborate: never heard of wiki? If you're choking on e-mail in your rich-media, real-time, time-strapped work environment, it may be just what you're looking for.(tech talk)
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- Communication World
- Article date:
- May 1, 2005
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A wiki is the ultimate collaborative tool for a group of users, even on a global scale, especially if they want to create and edit content on the fly as a project moves forward.
Why should anyone in their right mind pay attention to an oddly roamed phenomenon called wiki? As a communicator, you probably have the same feeling as when you first heard about "that h-t-t-p-colon-forward-slash-forward-slash thing," extranets or hypertext, or, more recently, Bluetooth or even blogs.
Wiki is not described with the same passion as blogs, but it appears to have inhaled the same oxygen. It's as if the people on the fringes, sick and tired of corporate ...