Wikis are the ultimate collaborative workspace - whether created by the worldwide online community for mass collaboration or whether utilised by workplace colleagues to develop and share corporate knowledge behind a firewall. I believe that "wikinomics" is the new work paradigm of the future. In our own particular environment, the valuable content we rely on contained in Libnet could easily be migrated to a workplace wiki accessibile by LIS staff. Information can be very easily searched, quickly updated and seamlessly maintained by all in the network.
All versions of documents are available via the 'History' functionality of the wiki, so an authoritative archive of content is ensured. Discussion of issues relating to a particular wiki article can be carried out on the wiki itself without the necessity for circulating numerous emails containing documents which need to be saved to be viewed by recipients. Once consensus is reached on the wiki 'Discussion' section, updates are made to the wiki article which is now available for all in the group to see.
Wikis are the ultimate collaborative workspace - whether created by the worldwide online community for mass collaboration or whether utilised by workplace colleagues to develop and share corporate knowledge behind a firewall. I believe that "wikinomics" is the new work paradigm of the future. In our own particular environment, the valuable content we rely on contained in Libnet could easily be migrated to a workplace wiki accessibile by LIS staff. Information can be very easily searched, quickly updated and seamlessly maintained by all in the network. 
All versions of documents are available via the 'History' functionality of the wiki, so an authoritative archive of content is ensured. Discussion of issues relating to a particular wiki article can be carried out on the wiki itself without the necessity for circulating numerous emails containing documents which need to be saved to be viewed by recipients. Once consensus is reached on the wiki 'Discussion' section, updates are made to the wiki article which is now available for all in the group to see.
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