Check Out the Web’s Hidden Treasures

TOOL FOR CORPORATE KNOWLEDGE SHARING

Wiki, http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?wikiwikiweb

“Wiki” means “fast” in Hawaiian. Ward Cunningham chose this appropriate adjective for his Web-based, open editing collaboration software. Open editing means any visitor can change Web page content and site organization. While this sounds like a recipe for chaos, wikis are getting favorable coverage in the business press as low-cost, flexible tools for corporate knowledge sharing. My firm recently installed kwiki, (http://kwiki.org/) a simple, free, Perl-based wiki on our Intranet. Installation took less than 10 minutes, and we find it a useful tool.