Week 6: Collaborative Content Creation

One of the most successful trends in current social computing, particularly on the enterprise level, is in the area of content creation. This week we'll talk about blogs, wikis, shared document management, and collaborative software development.

Week 6 Readings: Collaborative Content Creation

Readings are in the Content section of myCourses.

• Adler, A., Nash, J. C., & Noël, S. (2006). Evaluating and implementing a collaborative office document system. Interact. Comput., 18(4), 665-682.
• Hasan, H., & Pfaff, C. C. (2006). The wiki: An environment to revolutionise employees' interaction with corporate knowledge. Paper presented at the Proceedings of the 20th conference of the computer-human interaction special interest group (CHISIG) of Australia on Computer-human interaction: design: activities, artefacts and environments, Sydney, Australia.
• Majchrzak, A., Wagner, C., & Yates, D. (2006). Corporate wiki users: Results of a survey. Paper presented at the Proceedings of the 2006 international symposium on Wikis, Odense, Denmark.

Week 6 Lab Assignment: Using a Wiki

You have received (or will be receiving) an email invitation into a Socialtext workspace. Socialtext is the major provider of wiki software in enterprise settings.

When you log into the workspace, you'll see a section in the top left corner for News and Announcements. Take the introductory tour to the workspace.

In a wiki, creating a link to a new page and then clicking on the link automatically creates the page. So what you'll be doing is adding your name to the Students page, making your name into a link, then saving the page and clicking on the link. You'll be presented with a new editable page that has your name as a title.