I was already vaguely familiar with wikis, I've used a couple in the past but viewing the Wikis in Plain English video got me thinking of ways to use them here. Most immediately, a wiki might be a good way to carry on a discussion that we're having about redesigning the college website, what we've been doing is flinging around a lot of email and it's getting hard to keep track of the ideas.
I had a mixed reaction to the suggested sites. The usefulness of wikis is often more apparent to the people using them internally than it is to someone just viewing them. To a viewer they really don't appear much different than a web page. However, I was impressed with the page at Antioch that has what was basically the library operations manual turned into a wiki. We've been struggling here to keep our operations manual up to date and turning it into a wiki might be the way to go.
The challenge would be getting everyone involved to adapt to a new format, and to use in rather than reverting to tried and true methods (like flinging email). I started a library blog last fall and so far have had very little success getting anyone else to post to it, or even to comment.
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