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January 25, 2005
Wiki simplicity
A group of us meet regularly to organize each others 40th birthday "surprise". Up to now the group had been exchanging emails or Word documents with the details of what we had planned. The group is made up of mostly non-techies (i.e. people who use their computers for just - well - work). And of course most of them have not heard of weblogs or wikis. Anyway, tonight I suggested we use my wiki to plan the next birthday as it would allow us to collaboratively work on what we have planned without the need to exchange countless documents and emails.
Immediately, I could see my friends "get it". They realized straight away how much easier it would be to use the wiki instead. The nice thing about a wiki is that not only is it easy to use - but you can easily explain the concept to people who don't spend every hour of the day online. Simplicity.
On a side-note I upgraded my Wikka Wiki installation to the newest version as well. Although I haven't done that much with it yet I really like the concept and the way additional functionality (calendar anyone?) is provided through actions you can include in your pages.
Posted by Matthew at January 25, 2005 11:43 PM