WIKI software

[Havens,Andy]

I love wikis for lots of uses, but I've ended up making the following
recommendation a couple times for smaller/internal projects, and it's
been well received:

 

Start with a shared Google Docs account and use the word processor and
spreadsheet apps to create and collaborate on docs. The main Google Docs
page works well as a TOC, and you can tag pages with multiple key-words.
If/when you get to having 10 pages, then think about making the move to
a wiki.

 

What a couple of my buddies discovered is that their initial
requirements in terms of pages/topics ended up being, well... their only
requirements. After a year, one of them was doing fine with just two
shared docs that they updated quite frequently. Much easier than a wiki
if you don't need lots of cross-references and many different pages.

 

 

- A

 

Andy Havens

Manager of Branding and Creative Services, OCLC

Email: havensa at oclc.org

Phone: 614.764.4326

Mobile: 614.395.4134

 

From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On
Behalf Of Kristi Bryant
Sent: Friday, December 30, 2011 1:11 PM
To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: [WEB4LIB] WIKI software

 

Hoping to receive suggestions for  free wiki software that could be used
by our small public library (10 employees) to communicate with each
other about internal matters, websites, training resources, etc.

 

Thanks and Happy New Year!

 

Kristi Bryant

Reference and Technology Librarian

Wells Public Library

Wells, Maine  04090

207-646-8181 ext. 205

e-mail:  kbryant at wellstown.org

web:  www.wellstown.org <http://www.wellstown.org/> 

 

"Google can bring you back 100,000 answers, a librarian can bring you
back the right one."  Neil Gaiman

 

============================ 

To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib 

Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 

2011-12-30 


============================

To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib

Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/

2012-01-06
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://listserv.nd.edu/pipermail/web4lib/attachments/20120106/8533209d/attachment.htm>