My partner Jilian and I switched to using a wiki to finish writing our project. At first we used Google docs, but found their approach limiting, and trying to format a document exported from Google docs is burdensome. The wicki allowed us to post documents and to edit both the report and project documents easily. And with the change notification enabled, I received messages showing the changes that Jilian made to the document each time she edited and saved her changes. I didn't need to visit the wiki to see what she was doing.
Here is our wiki if you'd like to see how we've chose to use this wiki - 611wiki.wikispaces.com
This link will take you to the the Project page of our wiki. To visit the Report page of the wiki, click the Report link on the right. You'll have to scroll past the advertising to see the page listing in the right most column. [you have to pay money to make the advertising disappear]
I've also set up a wiki for work, but I have yet to get my colleagues to consider using it. There is one person in the office who sees the benefit, but I haven't convinced her to use it just yet. One of the challenges we face in our office is that we sometimes work collaboratively on tasks, and we don't know what has (or hasn't) been done. I think the wiki will work well when have to plan another event or project with people who are not in the office.
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Hey Stacey,
ReplyDeleteI really hope you get your co-workers to use the wiki. I remember sending a million e-mails when I worked at Lifetime of documents that I would edit then someone else would edit and it was enough to make your head spin trying to find the most updated document. I hope it works out for you!