5 Effective Wiki Uses and How Companies Benefit From Them

Wikipedia came onto the scene in 2001 and quickly demonstrated how powerful and far-reaching collaborative content can be. Since then wikis have proven to be valuable tools for websites. Yet, few companies are using them to their full potential.

Here are five examples of how your business can benefit from using wikis:

Project Management

A wiki is ideal for project management because it provides a central hub to:

• Organize everything in one place so people can see an entire project.
• Streamline workflow and reduce reliance on email and documents that can easily get lost and confused with old versions.
• Inform everyone about the progress of the project, so people don’t have to worry about whether it is on schedule.
• Involve everyone. This speeds up the overall process because it’s easier to incorporate feedback in-the-flow instead of after the fact.

Carbon Five, a company that develops enterprise Web applications, uses a wiki for project management. According to Founder and CEO Don Thompson, “Each client gets their own