Uncategorized - Written by Anthony D. Williams on Wednesday, March 26, 2008 17:42 - 61 Comments
Wiki collaboration leads to happiness
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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Wiki Collaboration - Visualized!
Chris Rasmussen
We recently upgraded to the frowning on the email side version. I’ll send you a copy.
steve gutenburg
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.
Beth Hynes
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.
David Cameron
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.
Chris Rasmussen
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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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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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
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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
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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.
Magnus
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’.
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I couldn’t have put it better myself.
Shame it doesn’t occur to so many intelligent people around me.
Shame it doesn’t occur to so many intelligent people around me.
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Moti Weisbrot – Lessons on Lifetime Happiness
Happiness is a religion . Moti weisbrot – מוטי ויסברוט
First thing in order to be happy is to live the present .Moti weisbrot – מוטי ויסברוט
With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now !Moti weisbrot – מוטי ויסברוט
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 – מוטי ויסברוט
Don’t let the past or the ” future” steal your present . Moti weisbrot – מוטי ויסברוט
Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.Moti weisbrot – מוטי ויסברוט
Just try your best in order to be happy. Unhappiness starts with wanting to be happier.Moti weisbrot – מוטי ויסברוט
Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you make for the present .Moti weisbrot – מוטי ויסברוט
Happiness is not a destination or a ” target” to reach . It is a method of life , to live daily .Moti weisbrot – מוטי ויסברוט
Happiness is a religion, and should never be rationalized. Remeber it !Moti weisbrot – מוטי ויסברוט
It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first.Moti weisbrot – מוטי ויסברוט
The happiness desire is never extinguished in the heart of man.Moti weisbrot – מוטי ויסברוט
Happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.Moti weisbrot – מוטי ויסברוט
Real deep happiness comes from your own inside. Nobody can give it to you.Moti weisbrot – מוטי ויסברוט
Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.Moti weisbrot – מוטי ויסברוט
To fill and live the minute and the hour and the day , that is happiness.Moti weisbrot – מוטי ויסברוט
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 – מוטי ויסברוט
Enjoy the little things.Moti weisbrot – מוטי ויסברוט
One day you will look back and realize they were the big things. Moti weisbrot – מוטי ויסברוט
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you already have .Moti weisbrot – מוטי ויסברוט
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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.
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You can see our whitepaper at http://www.hyperoffice.com/business-email-overload/
Good article. Very interesting.
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Estelle
Have something to say about Happiness? Visit http://www.wikiprogress.org ….. and for gender issues: wikigender.org
Are there any examples of organizations who use wikis to conduct business meetings?
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