Comments on: When Wikis Won’t Work: 10 Questions to Ask Before Full Adoption

By: NetDimensions Insight » Checklist for Wiki Adoption at Workplace

NetDimensions Insight » Checklist for Wiki Adoption at Workplace — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:41:21 +0000

[...] Luis Suarez has added five more questions to Lucas Mcdonnell’s five questions that must be asked before applying Wikis to workplace. [...]

By: links for 2007-10-16 « D e j a m e S e r

links for 2007-10-16 « D e j a m e S e r — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 15:18:43 +0000

[...] E L S U A ~ A KM Blog by Luis Suarez » Blog Archive » When Wikis Won’t Work: 10 Questions to Ask Before Full Adoption (tags: wiki enterprise2.0) [...]

By: theroades.com

theroades.com — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 06:27:28 +0000

[...] E L S U A ~ A KM Blog by Luis Suarez » Blog Archive » When Wikis Won’t Work: 10 Questions to Ask Before Full Adoption 10 good questions to ask before implementing any wiki…but many should be able to be worked out. Using a wiki can often be the best solution and gathering the necessary champions through support and training is usually possible with forethought. (tags: wikis success questions implementation strategy enterprise2.0) Posted by Adam on Monday, September 24th, 2007 [...]

By: Wiki wake-up call and use cases at Sims Learning Connections

Wiki wake-up call and use cases at Sims Learning Connections — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 17:27:24 +0000

[...] This reminder on wiki adoption status was then further reinforced over the weekend when I read Luis Suarez’s blog post: When Wikis Won’t Work: 10 Questions to Ask Before Full Adoption, which continued from Lucas McDonnell’s: When Wikis won’t work: 5 questions to ask post earlier in the week, which built from Doug Cornelius’s post, prompted by Chris Taylor’s piece in Business 2.0 in February. Whew. Got that thread? [...]

By: Before you launch that wiki….

Before you launch that wiki…. — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 16:15:38 +0000

[...] Elsua.net has a post today that comments on an article by Lucas McDonnell called “When Wikis Won’t Work: 5 Questions to Ask.” Elsua adds to the 5 questions with 5 more of his own and those are the questions of interest to me since they get to the cultural issue of wiki adoption and use, and I think the cultural and infrastructural issues are key to success. In fact, I think the cultural and infrastructural issues are make-or-break and are the area where consulting could help the most. Elsua’s 5 additional questions: 1. Does my team / community have the necessary resources to support and facilitate the participation on the wiki? 2. Is the team / community capable of maintaining the wiki with a robust enough infrastructure? 3. Do team / community members trust each other enough to be able to update content on top of each other’s content without risking the quality of the knowledge shared? 4. Will the team / community provide the necessary education and training materials on how to effectively make use of the wiki for that specific purpose? 5. And, finally, the killer question: can the team / community perform that task at hand with the same quality and participation using other tools than a wiki? If so, why wouldn’t you use whichever of those tools? [...]

By: Nancy White

Nancy White — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 03:43:24 +0000

Hm, wouldn’t these questions apply to ANY tool?