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They say a picture is worth a thousand words and I think this one sums up the power of wiki collaboration better than any 1,000 word essay ever could. The model was developed by Manny Wilson of U.S. Central Command and was shared with me by Chris Rasmussen at US National Geospatial Intelligence Agency. I presented this slide during a talk I gave at Nokia today and someone pointed out that the happy faces on the left probably ought to be frowning — he had a good point.
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We recently upgraded to the frowning on the email side version. Iโll send you a copy.
It’s a matter of perspective.
We’re the ones that frown at e-mail compared to wikis.
The e-mailerers ARE happy to be e-mailing - their reality is completely different than ours.
Really Steve? I hear people moan about e-mail more than any other aspect of corporate life.
An advantage of email is that it comes to you. You don’t have to go out looking to see if updates have been done.
While I agree that email does come to you; there are alternatives.
RSS feeds for example are a great way of having revisions sent to you in an unobtrusive manner.
Alternatively, you can subscribe to certain pages and get updates via email when any changes have been made. This way you get an email (that you’re use to) but you no longer have to worry if the file you have is the latest.
The great thing about RSS is you can ‘pull” what you want “pushed.” It’s not blasted in the mix with other blasted (newsletters, reply all, etc.) email.
I turned off email pings for wiki updates because checking my watch list is a standard practice. However, the great thing about wiki update email pings is that it’s an email you can throw away.
Email is good for notification but not so great when it comes to collaboration as the graphic indicates. Email is not bad, it’s simply over-used. It’s a “when you only know how to use a hammer, all problems are nail” type thing.
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[...] some reason it seems hard for most people to take them up.ย Thanks to Euan I found this graphic at wikinomics, and it says it all to me.ย For best results, take it with this video.ย Now can we use wikis?ย [...]
[...] to form, the post generated an interesting debate about whether the emailers on the left side of Chris’s diagram should be frowning, or whether [...]
[...] to form, my cross-post on wikinomics.com generated an interesting debate about whether the emailers on the left side of Chris’s diagram should be frowning, or whether [...]
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[...] Wikinomics ยป Blog Archive ยป Wiki collaboration leads to happiness A workflow comparison between email and wikis. Email is good for a few select communications tasks. Wikis are good for other tasks that are non-private. Wikis are a great way to avoid reinventing the wheel. (tags: technology wiki web2.0 collaboration productivity) [...]
Email ่ Wiki ็ๆฏ่ผ
็ถ็ฑ Roger’s Blog ็ๅฐ Wikinomics blog ไธ่ฒผๅบไบไธๅผตๅ๏ผ่ฉฆๅๆ็นช้้ Email ๆ Wiki ไพ้ๅฐๅๅไฝๆฅญ (collaboration) ็ๅทฎ็ฐใ
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Great visualization which I’ll try in my ongoing efforts to promote wiki use in my work place. However I think that “different” continues to cancel out “easier” in too many cases. I wonder if ball point pens had such a hard time getting accepted?
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[...] Which reminds me. I quite liked the diagram at the beginning of this post. [...]
[...] out the fantastic (And must read!!) blog post put together by Wikinomics under the title "Wiki collaboration leads to happiness" (Courtesy from Chris Rasmussen) where you will find this wonderful graphic that clearly [...]
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Wiki makes Happy
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Apart from “Simplify your life” by reducing the communication steps, wiki collaboration appears to make happy, because it appears to be in accordance with the “Great Spirit”, that drives humanity to build a “GlobalBrain” in the most enjoyable and efficient way. You can find my credo by Googling “WikiWayOfLive”, where all happy-making components are collected.
– fridemar
Sorry typo: WikiWayOfLive->WikiWayOfLife
http://google.com/search?q=WikiWayOfLife
– fridemar
[...] speak 1,000 words Filed under: wiki — cfigallo @ 3:56 pm Anthony Williams on the Wikinomics blog posted this illustration of the efficiency offered by a wiki as compared to email in [...]
[...] for the US National Geospatial Intelligence Agency by Chris Rasmussen, then displayed in a post on the Wikinomics blog by Anthony Williams makes it all so [...]
[...] A great graphic from Wikinomics of why wiki collaboration beats email collaboration. A picture says a 1,000 words. [...]
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[...] Versus Wiki Collaboration Graphic a Big Hit Pretty cool, the Wikinomics blog posted a blog about a graphic we (Intellipedians) have been using in the government to represent the comparative difference and [...]
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This is a great analysis.
I am just starting to develop a wiki to accompany a dinosaur Web 1.0 site. With your permission, we would like to cite this feature and include the graphic online
http://planeta.wikispaces.com/wiki
[...] http://www.wikinomics.com/blog/index.php/2008/03/26/wiki-collaboration-leads-to-happiness/ [...]
[...] required is migration away from email to a web-based collaboration platform. We are told that wiki collaboration leads to happiness, and that Enterprise 2.0 is about building a collaboration platform that is better than e-mail. Not [...]
[...] 27, 2008 · No Comments And a visual that is worth a thousand [...]
In fact the email collaboration diagram can be even MORE complicated that that. You also have to consider the case where people have to merge different versions of a document together.
What I want is a way to write an email, the recepient reads it and edits it as if it was a wiki page (creating new linked pages while doing it, if necessary) and replies. Of course, he would never really ‘own’ the email/wiki page he received. The underlying wiki page is simply rendered in the email reader application and would be located in a ‘real’ wiki somewhere. That way both emailers and wikippl would be happy (and me). No more ‘email vs. wiki’. Rather ‘email as wiki as email’.
[...] by Wikis? Rather just use e-mail? Check out this graph and see if your opinion changes. (via Tantek รelik on [...]
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[...] 21, 2008 My friend, John, pointed out this interesting image of how a wiki can simplify collaboration. It really hit home for me. Perhaps it can help you in [...]
[...] A great graphic from Wikinomics of why wiki collaboration beats email collaboration. A picture says a 1,000 words. [...]
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[...] Wikinomics graphic, originally created by Chris Rasmussen at US National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, shows the [...]
I couldn’t have put it better myself.
Shame it doesn’t occur to so many intelligent people around me.
Shame it doesnโt occur to so many intelligent people around me.
lol
[...] reading through that second item Scoble mentions, I just couldn’t help thinking about this particular graphic (By Chris Rasmussen and courtesy from the Wikinomics blog) which I have used already several dozens [...]
Moti Weisbrot - Lessons on Lifetime Happiness
Happiness is a religion . Moti weisbrot - ืืืื ืืืกืืจืื
First thing in order to be happy is to live the present .Moti weisbrot - ืืืื ืืืกืืจืื
With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now !Moti weisbrot - ืืืื ืืืกืืจืื
The main problem with looking too frequently into the past is that we may turn around one day and find out the future has run out on us .Moti weisbrot - ืืืื ืืืกืืจืื
Don’t let the past or the ” future” steal your present . Moti weisbrot - ืืืื ืืืกืืจืื
Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.Moti weisbrot - ืืืื ืืืกืืจืื
Just try your best in order to be happy. Unhappiness starts with wanting to be happier.Moti weisbrot - ืืืื ืืืกืืจืื
Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you make for the present .Moti weisbrot - ืืืื ืืืกืืจืื
Happiness is not a destination or a ” target” to reach . It is a method of life , to live daily .Moti weisbrot - ืืืื ืืืกืืจืื
Happiness is a religion, and should never be rationalized. Remeber it !Moti weisbrot - ืืืื ืืืกืืจืื
It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first.Moti weisbrot - ืืืื ืืืกืืจืื
The happiness desire is never extinguished in the heart of man.Moti weisbrot - ืืืื ืืืกืืจืื
Happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.Moti weisbrot - ืืืื ืืืกืืจืื
Real deep happiness comes from your own inside. Nobody can give it to you.Moti weisbrot - ืืืื ืืืกืืจืื
Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.Moti weisbrot - ืืืื ืืืกืืจืื
To fill and live the minute and the hour and the day , that is happiness.Moti weisbrot - ืืืื ืืืกืืจืื
Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales … The state of your Happiness is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind . Moti weisbrot - ืืืื ืืืกืืจืื
Enjoy the little things.Moti weisbrot - ืืืื ืืืกืืจืื
One day you will look back and realize they were the big things. Moti weisbrot - ืืืื ืืืกืืจืื
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you already have .Moti weisbrot - ืืืื ืืืกืืจืื
[...] : Wikinomics Blog Written by admin in: Reinventing the enterprise | Tags: enterprise 2.0, [...]
[...] speaking to the โwiki happinessโ diagram that Anthony Williams pointed us to in one of his previous posts. Clearspace’s blogging capability lets employees express their interests, opinions and talk [...]
[...] to describe the collaborative process using e-mail you come up with a very realistic example, which Wikinomics picked up not long ago, of how poor it actually is and Chris Rasmussen’s graphic speaks for itself, as I am sure you [...]
[...] Over at the Wikinomics, the Blog, Anthony Williams published this picture of the process comparing email collaboration versus wiki collaboration: Wiki collaboration leads to happiness. [...]
[...] is perhaps one of my favourite blog posts of all times over at the super fine Wikinomics blog: Wiki collaboration leads to happiness. In it you will find a graphic put together originally by Chris Rasmussen that explains what [...]
Happiness cannot come from without.
It must come from within.
It is not what we see and touch or that which
Others do for us which makes us happy;
It is that which we think and feel and do, first for
The other fellow and then for ourselves.
a very insightful graphic which captures the difference between pull collaboration (wikis) and push collaboration (wikis). We had recently done a whitepaper on email vs online collaboration, and the potential benefits which can flow from using online collaboration tools for some of the tasks emails are used for (task management, file collaboration, schedule coordination).
You can see our whitepaper at http://www.hyperoffice.com/business-email-overload/
I don’t know what Chris Rassmussen is talking about. All the problems I see are nails.