In the last post, I discussed how we will develop and strengthen the club charter at the 12 Nov. 08 meeting. The method we have chosen is a wiki, which will be installed in the protected area of the club web site. We (the club coordinators) will fill the wiki with the current charter and ask members to help write the missing sections related to what the club will be doing going forward. The wiki software should be installed shortly and an e-mail with more detailed instructions will be sent to the members.
For those non-members reading this post, the results of the group effort will be posted on this blog. If you have any ideas, please add them to the comments.
Now I know you have many questions, the first likely being – What’s a wiki? A wiki is web-based software that allows a group of people to collaboratively write a collection of documents. The best example is wikipedia. Each page in the wiki is a document and each page can be edited quite easily by anyone. It is a great tool for collecting and sharing knowledge in a group.
In Wikis – A Disruptive Innovation, Cindy Gordon writes:
The wiki paradigm is disruptive because it is a low-cost alternative that brings key editing features into the hands of users. The approach increases the collaborative productivity of an organization or its extended ecosystems.
Overall, wikis increase the socialization process, enabling collaboration to generate at warp speed. Socialization underpins the sharing of ideas, and hence innovation capacity increases from wiki infrastructure.
Add to that that a wiki is cheap to implement and it is a powerful tool in the innovation arsenal of any firm. Keep that in mind as you work on the club charter.
