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Jeff G

Close to the tipping point? Interview with Jemima Gibbons - 0 views

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shared by Jeff G on 30 Oct 08 - Cached
  • Jeff G on 30 Oct 08
     
    Rank and file employees are often afraid that if they put all their knowledge into a wiki, they won't be needed any more but the opposite is true. If you hold onto your knowledge, all you are is an overpaid security guard. Once you start sharing your knowledge and collaborating with other people you become more valuable to your company. You're more likely to have your job outsourced when you're not contributing knowledge.
Jeff G

Creating Mozart: Enterprise Wikis at Chevron Richmond - 0 views

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shared by Jeff G on 23 Aug 08 - Cached
  • 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
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  • They inherently understood that it was the wisdom of the crowd that would turn their original scores into masterpieces. 
  • Jeff G on 23 Aug 08
     
    Wiki adoption story involving Chevron.
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