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A wiki is software that allows users to easily create, edit, and link pages together. Wikis are often used to create collaborative websites and to power community websites. These wiki websites are often also referred to as wikis; for example, Wikipedia is one of the best known wikis. Wikis are used in many businesses to provide affordable and effective Intranets and for Knowledge Management. Ward Cunningham, developer of the first wiki, WikiWikiWeb, originally described it as "the simplest online database that could possibly work".

>==Chances for corporate wikis==

Contents 1 Retrieving valuable Knowledge 2 Integration and Community 3 Rethinking the Company 4 Under Construction! Please Visit Reserve Page. Page Will Be Available Shortly 5 CLICK HERE 5.1 Literature

Retrieving valuable Knowledge

The know-how and competence of the employees of a company is often buried and even unreachable in databases and the minds of staff members. Often one department does not know that the same problem is already being worked on in another.

• With wikis you collect mutual information about customers, cooperative partners, employees, applicants, documented procedures and work flows.
• Wikis from Hallo Welt! also include knowledge from the databases of your corporations.

Create your own Wikipedia and set off your own knowledge avalanche.

Integration and Community

Knowledge information is not only a question of technology but also of business culture.

• As open systems, wikis require mutual trust and promote it.
• Through the development of conventions and categories, participants gain a mutual understanding of matters. In their own words, they must “hit the nail on the head” and discuss content.
• Wikis offer a unique change to overcome communication barriers and to build new bridges between departments and headquarters.

Hallo Welt! will support you in building your community.

Rethinking the Company

Standard software restricts the design possibilities of the user. It is not designed to incorporate dynamic change.

• The open structure of wikis is inspiring: processes and meanings must be newly conceptualized, arranged and explained. A learning process is at work.
• Wikis facilitate brainstorming in projects and in team meetings.

Get to know your business from another perspective with wikis.

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Literature

• Ebersbach, Anja, Glaser, Markus and Heigl, Richard (2008): Wiki. Web Collaboration, 2. Ed, Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg.
• Leuf, Bo und Cunningham, Ward (2001): The Wiki Way. Quick Collaboration on the Web, Addison Wesley: Boston u. a.