Wiki Wednesday at PwC

Good turn-out - 20 or so - great buffet, beer and wine - thanks go to PwC and Guy Yeomans

We took a slightly different approach to this event and invited speakers to "show and tell" - we initially planned 5 minutes per speaker and most of us managed only to overrun by 100%!

Interesting bunch of information on the following topics:

Me on Communities of Practice

ActiveMedia - Podcasting and two-way podcasting (in some ways a reversion to copy-typing!)

Jigsaw - a UK based site for gathering together Web2.0 and other Internet businesses by and for the UK

Lars Plougmann on the development of documents and why we can stop producing lots of versions of documents and use wikis to not just as the development mechanism but also as the delivery tool

David Terrar on using SocialText to build a small business support wiki

Jeremy Rustin on his open source TiddlyWiki and some of its applications including an innovative linking idea between wikis and podcasting!

Andy Roberts on his passion for cider and also his action research projects - particularly his exhibition and his "barn rasining" event this weekend including a request to visit distributedresearch.net for feedback

Robert Schumann on Ubuntu and a wiki for managing lab sapce and workshop tooling in universities

Guy Yeomans from PwC on the adoption of wikis for internal and soon external uses and a request for case studies

Dan Dixon of headshift on the approach to using wikis in collaboration and the social structure required to support Communities of Practice and his support for Contactivity 2006

David Dunkley Gyimah from viewmagazine.tv on uses of video in blogging and xcasting

Nick Swan on SharePoint 2007

Next time we'll do more of the same or something different - ideas??

Comments

[David Terrar]

If any of your readers are interested in contributing to StartMEup, which aims to be the best, free, open, independent, wiki based information resource for SMEs and start ups in the UK (and Europe), then please drop me a line. We aim to have practical, pragmatic advice, war stories, and the benefit of people's expediences. You can mail me at dt at d2c dot org dot uk or through the link back to my blog. Cheers!

[Nick Swan]

thanks for organising a great evening. First one I've attended so wasn't sure what to expect but had a thoroughly enjoyable time.

[Colin Donald]

Hi John,

Very interesting evening and a great opportunity to receive early and informed feedback on Jigsaw before its official launch. Looking forward to the next one!

[David Terrar]

Bad manners to compound the crap job I did last night. Thanks for organising it. I learned a lot!