They say a picture is worth a thousand words and I think this one sums up the power of wiki collaboration better than any 1,000 word essay ever could. The model is courtesy of Chris Rasmussen at US National Geospatial Intelligence Agency. I presented this slide during a talk I gave at Nokia today and someone pointed out that the happy faces on the left probably ought to be frowning — he had a good point.
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Pingback by Wiki Collaboration - Visualized! - March 27, 2008 10:29 am
We recently upgraded to the frowning on the email side version. I’ll send you a copy.
Comment by Chris Rasmussen - March 27, 2008 10:17 pm
It’s a matter of perspective.
We’re the ones that frown at e-mail compared to wikis.
The e-mailerers ARE happy to be e-mailing - their reality is completely different than ours.
Comment by steve gutenburg - March 27, 2008 10:27 pm
Really Steve? I hear people moan about e-mail more than any other aspect of corporate life.
Comment by Euan W Semple - March 28, 2008 12:15 pm
An advantage of email is that it comes to you. You don’t have to go out looking to see if updates have been done.
Comment by Beth Hynes - March 28, 2008 4:57 pm
While I agree that email does come to you; there are alternatives.
RSS feeds for example are a great way of having revisions sent to you in an unobtrusive manner.
Alternatively, you can subscribe to certain pages and get updates via email when any changes have been made. This way you get an email (that you’re use to) but you no longer have to worry if the file you have is the latest.
Comment by David Cameron - March 28, 2008 5:35 pm
The great thing about RSS is you can ‘pull” what you want “pushed.” It’s not blasted in the mix with other blasted (newsletters, reply all, etc.) email.
I turned off email pings for wiki updates because checking my watch list is a standard practice. However, the great thing about wiki update email pings is that it’s an email you can throw away.
Email is good for notification but not so great when it comes to collaboration as the graphic indicates. Email is not bad, it’s simply over-used. It’s a “when you only know how to use a hammer, all problems are nail” type thing.
Comment by Chris Rasmussen - March 28, 2008 7:56 pm
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[...] some reason it seems hard for most people to take them up. Thanks to Euan I found this graphic at wikinomics, and it says it all to me. For best results, take it with this video. Now can we use wikis? [...]
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[...] to form, the post generated an interesting debate about whether the emailers on the left side of Chris’s diagram should be frowning, or whether [...]
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[...] to form, my cross-post on wikinomics.com generated an interesting debate about whether the emailers on the left side of Chris’s diagram should be frowning, or whether [...]
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[...] Wikinomics » Blog Archive » Wiki collaboration leads to happiness A workflow comparison between email and wikis. Email is good for a few select communications tasks. Wikis are good for other tasks that are non-private. Wikis are a great way to avoid reinventing the wheel. (tags: technology wiki web2.0 collaboration productivity) [...]
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Email 與 Wiki 的比較
經由 Roger’s Blog 看到 Wikinomics blog 上貼出了一張圖，試圖描繪透過 Email 或 Wiki 來達到協同作業 (collaboration) 的差異。
點擊上圖放大，圖片來源：Wikinomics blog
針對上圖左側 Email 的部分…
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Great visualization which I’ll try in my ongoing efforts to promote wiki use in my work place. However I think that “different” continues to cancel out “easier” in too many cases. I wonder if ball point pens had such a hard time getting accepted?
Comment by tom - March 30, 2008 9:20 am
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[...] Which reminds me. I quite liked the diagram at the beginning of this post. [...]
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Pingback by links for 2008-03-31 | DiscomBLOGulated! - March 30, 2008 9:33 pm
Wiki makes Happy
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Apart from “Simplify your life” by reducing the communication steps, wiki collaboration appears to make happy, because it appears to be in accordance with the “Great Spirit”, that drives humanity to build a “GlobalBrain” in the most enjoyable and efficient way. You can find my credo by Googling “WikiWayOfLive”, where all happy-making components are collected.
– fridemar
Comment by fridemar - April 4, 2008 9:44 am
Sorry typo: WikiWayOfLive->WikiWayOfLife
http://google.com/search?q=WikiWayOfLife
– fridemar
Comment by fridemar - April 4, 2008 10:26 am
[...] speak 1,000 words Filed under: wiki — cfigallo @ 3:56 pm Anthony Williams on the Wikinomics blog posted this illustration of the efficiency offered by a wiki as compared to email in [...]
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Pingback by L1BRAR1AN › Graphic: Wiki collaboration leads to happiness - April 8, 2008 10:16 pm
This is a great analysis.
I am just starting to develop a wiki to accompany a dinosaur Web 1.0 site. With your permission, we would like to cite this feature and include the graphic online
http://planeta.wikispaces.com/wiki
Comment by Ron Mader - April 13, 2008 4:17 pm
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[...] required is migration away from email to a web-based collaboration platform. We are told that wiki collaboration leads to happiness, and that Enterprise 2.0 is about building a collaboration platform that is better than e-mail. Not [...]
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In fact the email collaboration diagram can be even MORE complicated that that. You also have to consider the case where people have to merge different versions of a document together.
Comment by James Matheson - June 2, 2008 11:29 pm
What I want is a way to write an email, the recepient reads it and edits it as if it was a wiki page (creating new linked pages while doing it, if necessary) and replies. Of course, he would never really ‘own’ the email/wiki page he received. The underlying wiki page is simply rendered in the email reader application and would be located in a ‘real’ wiki somewhere. That way both emailers and wikippl would be happy (and me). No more ‘email vs. wiki’. Rather ‘email as wiki as email’.
Comment by Magnus - June 6, 2008 5:44 am
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