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wiki concierge services“Wiki Concierge Service” means we’ll help you light some candles. Well...OK...not really. In fact, not at all, Except for the metaphorical idea that wikis are providing a revolutionary approach to creating community and facilitating project management online. And sparking the flame of creative ideas that will burn brightly through employees’ and customers’ minds for generations to come… what are wikis?Wikis provide web users with the tools to create their own Web pages. Up until now, unless you could write code or use a design program, you had to hire a web master to create a new site, or even to implement simple changes to an existing web page. This process takes time, and you often get charged by the hour. That all changes with a wiki. Control passes to the user/viewers’ hands. Users create pages, post pictures, and attach documents to unique pages that can be created on a hosted site, or behind a company’s firewall. Pages can be open for anyone to edit, for multiple users or groups to edit, or for just one person to modify, depending on the needs of the organization. There are a number of different wiki programs/engines/services available today. Some provide a very “bare bones” set of functions. Some provide robust, full-text editing features, the ability to send email directly to a page, monitor changes via RSS, add graphics, import Word files, add customized applications and more. All, though, share that one important ingredient -- the ability for users to edit appropriate pages directly on the Web site itself. Emailing wiki pages can save up to 30% of a person’s time every day by eliminating cumbersome email “daisy chains” that run rampant in offices today. How often do you mine your email box for a note someone sent last week? How often do you have to cut and past an email into a Word document to save on your hard drive? How often do you have to ask someone else to mine their email boxes/hard drives to get a document you need? so what’s a wiki “concierge?”Some people are wary of wiki. It only makes sense. We’re used to thinking of Web pages as a relatively static medium. We’re used to being “the audience,” not participants in the Internet. Plus, there’s a learning curve to creating pages on the wiki. Some people say, “I don’t have time to learn this.” However, once they realize they can save 30% of their time every day they’re usually willing to take an hour or so to learn a simple user interface and some of the logistics of wikis. And many companies would like to put some time and resources into designing task management, work group centers and project tracking nodes around wikis in order to save even more of their folks’ time. All they need is some help figuring out exactly how to best utilize this new technology. And how to best get it into the hands of their managers and workers. That’s where we come in. There are three main components to creating a wiki:
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next stepsContact John Havens to chat about your company’s needs. We’ll listen and then get back to you on a conference call with our team and yours to provide you with some ballpark ideas and pricing. Or we can send you a proposal, whichever works for you.
But hey, if you want to do it yourself, go for it. We think you’ll discover that Wikiville is a great and joyous land in which to romp about, and if we can provide any consulting while you build your wiki, give us a shout.
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