All Hail to the Wiki

I personally have begun to appreciate the utility that a wiki at work has to offer. It truly has allowed me to be more efficient. One of the benefits is that I don't have to rely on my feable memory anymore. As long as I throw whatever tid-bit of information that I know I will need sometime later on up on to the wiki, and make sure that I keep the wiki organized so that I can easily look it up, then I know that I'm good to go. I can see how it can be a good way to share information as well. If everyone kept up there own wiki, I could default to looking up info from that individuals wiki if they were not available or not have to unnecessarily disturb them to get the information I needed. But not many people are using it or are aware of the tool, as of yet, which is why I'm trying to spread the word.

"wikis excel at collaboration. They are intended to maintain a series of unique documents as their content evolves and to provide an organic means of organizing that information."
- Ezra Goodnoe

I like the idea of a tool that empowers the user to, over time, willfully and organically evolve informational content in a space that is also then openly available to others in the group.

There are more features that can be added to the Twiki, the wiki version used at work. A feed reader/aggregator that can be inserted into a page that can consume feeds from disparate databases in the organization (like what is used on start.com and www.google.com/ig). However, this would involve constructing rss interfaces for these legacy databases. Another feature would be to be able to search within the documents that are uploaded to the site and linked to the site instead of just the textual content on the site. That was the nice thing about desktop search was that the search was able to access the content of the documents. But now that I'm starting to upload these documents to the wiki, I'm loosing that searching capability. But I guess... since the wiki forces me to be more organized, I will be able to find the document by drilling down the hierarchical structure.

The twiki is a tool with potential and plenty of room to grow.