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Your competitors are using wikis. Your customers are using wikis. So are other employees in your organization. You need to use wikis too. It's where your future is. And I'll show you how.

I handle wikivandalism under our school vandalism policy. In this case, I didn't know how to lock pages and a student edited the assignment. By the next period, they were in the principles office dealt with on vandalism charges in the way we handle that -- like writing on the bathroom walls level of vandalism. So, expect wiki vandalism to happen early but catch it early.

Extensive article about what wikis are good for with lots of links to examples.

In higher ed, there are really three ways I think a wiki can be useful: teaching, research, and administration.

Examples of wiki etiquette in Higher Ed

These days, just as blogs are, wikis are on their way to winning a reputation as serious publishing platforms.

Across campus, buzz has been steadily spreading about a new service provided by the university called Sakai. From a link on the university homepage to a Web address listed in various course syllabi, Sakai has surely entered the university's consciousness.

It was not long ago that producing multimedia digital content required expensive equipment and technical expertise; we are at the point now where we can do some very compelling content creation with nothing more complex than a web browser. In this workshop you will: * Design a basic story concept that can be created in a web 2.0 tool using images, audio, and/or video. * And then create it quickly using one of 50+ different web tools that are free to use. * Plus, you will share in this wiki site your example and observations on the value of the tool

We are using the word "story" in a general sense; it may be a deeply personal one of the digital storytelling variety, or it may be a tale of a travel trip, or a simple multimedia presentation.

An RSS file is basically a list of headlines encoded so that it can be easily read or displayed by another program or website.

Metadata makes the difference between a shoebox full of unsorted photos and a nicely-organized album that lets you browse photos of your Paris vacation.