There's no particular formula - it could hit critical mass with just a few active users, or just a few super-useful pages of information added. It also depends on the type of organisation, eg. if you're a very top-down organisation where management demands absolute control, it'll be harder to get adoption purely due to management not wanting to give up that control. However, with so many organisations changing their management style these days it's a do-or-die scenario - if staff aren't given the ability to collaborate and get things done the company will soon turn in to a relic of the past.
Guys, given that you hit the target so well. I have another questions...: Big discussion at the office about Dashboard vs. SharepPoint, for Wiki. What is your favorite link to a discussion around that subject?
Confluence is integrating more and more with SharePoint, however there are some major drawbacks with SP when you have a choice between using it or not:
SharePoint is built in a rigid manner which you have to open up ... wiki's are generally built the other way around
SharePoint is very expensive (at least any time I've done the TCO comparision)
SharePoint perpetuates the Microsoft style way of working, forging a heavy reliance on MS products (i.e. it's a step into further dependency, not a step away)
I don't know much about Blackboard, but I've never heard anyone whose used it for a large amount of time rave about it; but I have heard lots of people complain about it's implementation methodology and limitations.
We built our company around Confluence (and other Atlassian products), so we're bound to be biased - however we did that for a very good reason
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what is the critical mass you need to start seeing a wiki grow?
are there any stats? i.e. number of users vs number of pages added , ..., ??
There's no particular formula - it could hit critical mass with just a few active users, or just a few super-useful pages of information added. It also depends on the type of organisation, eg. if you're a very top-down organisation where management demands absolute control, it'll be harder to get adoption purely due to management not wanting to give up that control. However, with so many organisations changing their management style these days it's a do-or-die scenario - if staff aren't given the ability to collaborate and get things done the company will soon turn in to a relic of the past.
You probably want to have a look at:
Dan: your links are VERY useful !! specially #2.
Appreciate your reply very much.
Guys, given that you hit the target so well. I have another questions...: Big discussion at the office about Dashboard vs. SharepPoint, for Wiki. What is your favorite link to a discussion around that subject?
Thank you.
Guillermo
Confluence is integrating more and more with SharePoint, however there are some major drawbacks with SP when you have a choice between using it or not:
I don't know much about Blackboard, but I've never heard anyone whose used it for a large amount of time rave about it; but I have heard lots of people complain about it's implementation methodology and limitations.
We built our company around Confluence (and other Atlassian products), so we're bound to be biased - however we did that for a very good reason