How About Some Learn & Play? Thing # 15: Wikis

Deadline’s in a week.  So let’s finish this thing.

Wikis.  They’re cool.  I like to use the word as though it’s a verb.  “Let me wiki that.”  I use wikis mostly to satisfy the yearning pop culture trivia bits of my brain.  (yeah, I know, that’s almost the entire thing.)

I gotta agree with Maggie though.  The aesthetic part of wikis is kinda, severely, lacking.  Which is pretty much why I wasn’t that impressed with any of the sample library wikis connected to this exercise.

We do have a staff wiki at the Dublin Branch that ended up being super-useful when we were trying to contact staff and stop them from coming to work during the End of Days/Windstorm/Blackout in September.  We’re so Green & Web 2.0 at Dublin, that we didn’t even have a paper version of the staff roster printed out.  So I used my cell & phoned a friend, giving her access to the our wiki so she could relay every staff member’s phone number to me.  Without the wiki, (and a fully charged cell-phone!) all that information would’ve been unaccessible.

Thus far, I’ve had a less than participative, one way relationship with wikis, just looking up desired info, not contributing anything via writing or editing.  I imagine that will change soon though.  Who Knows?  Maybe even in my next L&P update!