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Grow Your Wiki

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Showing the example of how to work agendas through a wiki vs. email! Stewart Mader compares organizational and public wikis (Wikipedia vs. enterprise wiki), offers several examples of organizations actively using wikis today, and outlines the main business drivers and use cases inside organizations. White House. wiki pilot.

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TruthForce! | How Wiki Software is Changing Communication

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Its debatable whether encouraging public input is a good way to increase efficiency, but the move is the latest example of a quickly growing trend. As Wikipedia has demonstrated, Web sites that are open to the public are vulnerable to vandalism, bias, inconsistency and other problems.

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Cognitive Flexibilty Theory, Hypertext, and the Post-Gutenberg Mind: Rand Spiro's Home Page

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For example, his lengthy contention that because the origin of Googles search algorithm is mechanistic in ways that resemble Fredierick Taylors old time-motion studies and the mechanization of work, Google therefore needs to be used in a mechanistic way is an out and out non sequitur. The "Wikipedia as Old-Gutenberg Trojan Horse" column.

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Effective collaboration with wikis | DavePress

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MediaWiki - the platform that Wikipedia, amongst many other wikis, runs on - is probably the best of the free self-hosted options. People will accidentally delete entire pages of content, for example, and panic about what to do about it. Here’s a suggestion for a tenth point: Don’t try to re-create Wikipedia.

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50 of the Most Dependable Web Resources for University Students | Educhoices.org

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The site looks almost exactly like Wikipedia, but there is a difference between the two: Scholarpedia can be cited in research papers. Examples include style guidelines, writing instruction, editing tutorials and grammar guidelines. The site is a great place to find citation examples and double-check your work.

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What makes an effective knowledge worker? (Gurteen Knowledge)

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Books Amazon.com Books Wikipedia Collegiate Dictionary Collegiate Thesaurus Daypop Google Google Images Gurteen Hotbot HyperDictionary Translate to French Translate to German Translate to Italian Translate to Portuguese Translate to Spanish Yahoo. How does someone learn not to need praise for example and just how important an attribute is it?

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Information Literacy and Big6

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Student example of a formative evaluation. Surviving Wikipedia". Example: Motion Blindness - Auto summarize in Word. Making Powerpoint Note Cards - Example (from Information Literacy Instruction and Fair Use). Essential Question: How do formative evaluations guide the information problem-solving process? 163-167 and p.188

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