If you're new to Wiki: here are a few notes on how to use it.

Wiki means quick in Hawaiian. It's a collaborative tool for posting, archiving, broadcasting, and collaborating.

By clicking on the "Edit Page" option on any page, you open up a wiki page that you can edit and save, featuring the opportunity to use the formatting and editing tips at the bottom of the pages.

Some suggested wiki courtesies:

• Delete only what you post; if you want to react to something posted, post your own counter ideas and responses
• If you want people to know what you post, indicate it by putting your name somewhere at the beginning or end of a post and the date when helpful
• Raise questions, challenge assumptions, describe ideas, go on a rant, cite facts, make comments, suggest links, offer suggestions, pose problems, give support, tell stories, lighten up an overly-serious tone, bring things back to focus, start a whole new discussion.
• Resist temptations to post personal attacks and expressions that might otherwise shut down rather than promote honest and respectful dialogue -- if you want to let someone have it, do it in an email or voice mail
• Use email and voice mail rather than wikis to conduct personal business

Wikis are excellent tools for starting conversations before and continuing conversations after formal meetings. They are also great ways to include people in the process who can only participate virtually, through wikis.

If you have any questions about wiki, technically or functionally, contact wiki-majordomo, George Nemeth (:divend:)