Seeking the Wiki Way

Saturday, I asked on the NMRTWriter email list server if anyone had used a personal wiki for organizing writing projects. I received encouragement and leads, but no stories from actual experience. I started looking around at various wiki softwares on Sunday night, but halted after an hour or so in complete confusion. I'll try again soon and update my progress on my blog and NMRTWriter.

Meanwhile, wikis have been in the air this week in the library blogosphere. Several blogs commented on the article "Making the Case for a Wiki" by Emma Tonkin in the on-line magazine Ariadne.

Yesterday, Information Wants To Be Free had a wonderful long piece about wikis. I particularly appreciated that she linked back to a September post about wikis on The Digital Librarian with an idea about using wikis as interactive finding aids at archives. Cool! It might work for subject guides in academic libraries as well. And the Searcher article (Quickiwiki, Swiki, Twiki, Zwiki and the Plone Wars Wiki as a PIM and Collaborative Content Tool) looks like a good starting point when I next plunge into an attempt to find wiki software.     #

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