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By: Dorothy Webster

Dorothy Webster — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 22:37:23 +0000

The Tech. Pubs. managers who we help find a good Tech Writer have told me about your blog. I think it’s terrific.

I’d like to add a link to http://justwriteclick.com to the links page on our site, http://www.TECHwriters.com.

I wonder if you’d consider adding a link to our site on your links page.

Let me know.

Thank you.

Dorothy Webster

By: adam

adam — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 22:08:35 +0000

Thanks for the pointer to the book. Very interesting. I’m going to go through the site more thoroughly.

Also of interest is the site by Peter Thoeny (I am sure you already know it):
http://www.structuredwikis.com/

By: annegentle

annegentle — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 19:15:03 +0000

Ah, thanks Michele. Wordpress was adding that extra period at the end somehow so I just added words to the sentence, ha ha. We writers know all the workarounds! Glad it was helpful and know you’re not the only one!

By: Michele Marques

Michele Marques — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 18:57:19 +0000

Thanks for the info about “teh”…. I’ve seen it used, but wasn’t 100% sure of intentionality or meaning. BTW, you accidentally included the “.” at the end of the link.

By: annegentle

annegentle — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 13:09:00 +0000

Hi Maria – the book is available on Amazon now, and you can click that first link to find it in Amazon. I think that the newest version of Sharepoint has wiki features built in, but you’re right, Sharepoint is not a wiki itself. Sharepoint has so many integration points with Outlook, though, that it becomes a “sticky” integration. In other words, once it’s in, people like for it to stay. And that’s not a bad thing. I believe you could use the Wiki Patterns for some of the business goals you accomplish with Sharepoint, like the open, editable meeting agendas for example.

I too got a kick out of the Wikiphobic description! There’s a great collective voice and style on that wiki and it’s often a fun read.

And one other note – thanks to the reader who sent me an email saying “there’s a typo in the title.” Well, not really. The “teh” in the title is something “teh kids” do, Internet slang. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teh for more detail. I mean for it to be translated as “the awesomest.”

By: M. Hunsberger

M. Hunsberger — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:59:17 +0000

I visited the Web site and got a good laugh out of the following solution for curing “Wikiphobia.”

“Wikiphobic people typically are ignorant. Just create the wiki secretly on a server and don’t tell them it’s a wiki. Tell them it’s an informational web site and only trusted editors can modify it. Then add everybody as an editor except the Wikiphobic people. They’ll think that the site is static and can’t be modified, which will suit them very well. You will pass as the owner of the contents, and thus they will ask you to modify the site via emails. Just cut and paste the emails into the wiki. By the time they figure out it’s a wiki, your wiki will likely be very large and they won’t have the guts to delete all that information. They may ask you to disable editing. Answer “yes, I’ll do it” but then just ignore the order. Repeat as necessary, typically every six months.”

Thanks for the link and the review.

By: Maria

Maria — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:34:32 +0000

I don’t know a lot about wikis; only used one once at a small software company long ago and very “litely” at that. Sounds like wikis have come a long way. But the last few companies I’ve contracted at, no one uses a wiki…Everyone uses SharePoint. What’s the greatest advantage would you say to using both? Or what does one do that the other doesn’t? You (or the book) make it sound like the two were made for each other. I love wikis but they are a hard sell for people that use SharePoint and think it delivers everything they need.

Nice review by the way. Do you know when the book will be available?