Emerge Inc. Blog

In a conversation last week with a good friend about how the Internet could be used to increase collaboration in regards to volunteers and volunteer projects, we hit upon the idea of adding a wiki page for each project that would enable the volunteers to share amongst themselves.

We quickly realized that many people probably aren’t familiar with a wiki. They may have used Wikipedia, but not a wiki in general.

From Wikipedia – A wiki ( /ˈwɪki/ WIK-ee) is a website that allows the easy creation and editing of any number of interlinked web pages via a web browser using a simplified markup language or a WYSIWYG text editor.

The excellent people at Common Craft created the following video which explains the power and benefits of a wiki.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, April 6th, 2010 at 9:03 am . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.