Over the past several years technology has increased in the workplace allowing employees to be able to share their work more easily. Employees often work with other coworkers and have to share information relevant to their assigned tasks, wikis is a great source to help multiple people share information and be able to all edit the information in a practical manner. Wiki is an online tool that helps groups of people collaborate in one place; wikis allow people to share attachments and links also.
Several companies are bringing wikis into the workplace to share information with not only the employees but also the clients, some of the companies that are amongst these are Pixar, Carbon Five, and Red Ant. Other companies use wikis for collaboration within the companies for internal discussions, blogs and RSS feeds; companies that use wikis this way include: Disney, Motorola, Yahoo, New York Times, and DrKW. Many technology companies like IBM, SAP, and Sony Ericsson use wikis to share development idea networks, which is quite convenient. More and more companies are using technology in the workplace and they will continue to grow in the online world with sites like wikis that are easy to navigate and practical for working with groups.
The article used as a reference for this blog:
Using Wikis for Collaboration and Enhancing Organizational Knowledge
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