If there ever could be a Cliff’s Notes for the wiki chapter of my book, I think I’m writing it now. I’ve been working on a great project with MindTouch. I visited them for a focus group with other technical communicators and technical support pros back in February in San Diego. We had open source […]
Wikis, copyright, and licensing
A question about wikis and copyright came through my email inbox this week, and I thought I’d share it with my readers. It’s a good question and a common misconception of wikis is that all content is always liberated once it’s put on a wiki. Not so, and here is additional explanation. Q: A colleague […]
Collaboration thoughts
Some of my favorite quotes that make me chuckle are the ones about collaborative authoring and the difficulty being people, not tools. For example, Alan Porter recently wrote an article Wikis in the workplace: a practical introduction for Ars Technica. My favorite line from the comments was “Remember that the people contributing to it are […]