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One way is to think of the stock and flow model, wikis have perpetually re-edited pages, whereas blogs have a stream of date-based entries just like newspaper articles.

We have one client working with Ford that is using the wiki to draft requirements. They created a template, use it to start new requirements documents, and then work collaboratively with the clients to fill them out and update them. The permissions are tuned so only the appropriate team members have edit access to the specific wiki pages. The project is very efficient, and the customer is very happy to have full visibility into the process as it unfolds. They are now using wiki pages for other project deliverables like meeting notes, testing plans, and other important documents.

With the wiki, federal agencies compiled a database of 13,496 earmarks in 10 weeks. In the old days, it would have taken six months to get the information to the OMB.

No need for the person in charge to spend time compiling all the emails, deleting the duplicates, and cutting ‘n pasting a list into a document.

The email read something like, “Can everyone please email me a list of issues with [our system] and then [this person] will go through all the emails make a list in a document.”

I took the essence of it and put it on the wiki on their behalf…we need to discipline people out of old habits.

The young guns argued for complete openness – or no locking of pages. The more senior refinery folk liked the command and control way – or “lock ‘em up”. I’m a young gun (so I like to think), thus the latter was a wiki anti-pattern to me. “It’s just not the wiki way,” became my mantra about command and control.

The elephants, I found, tended to be the more senior folk and were weary of new tools.

“Well”, I said, “those other tools didn’t allow you to freely express yourself to share the valuable knowledge you carry around in your head

BluePedia is an encyclopedia of general knowledge about IBM,

This means that solutions will not be published as a blog post, but rather in a wikipage. Instead the blog can be used to publish quick news to notify support staff of a new solution in the wiki.