Scoble points to a good example of a wiki. dotNetInfluencers.org is “a Wiki devoted to allowing influencial .NET developers to document their activities and present it to the world. A CoreGroup of people are working to drive the goals of this wiki along the lines discussed below. If you would like to contribute and become one of the core members, please contact MikeSchinkel. (President and Founder of Xtras.Net).”
The site goes on to add: “Mike saw the need for years to provide the .NET community with a registry of influencers to help them market themselves and to help those who could use their services locate them. However, running Xtras.Net has always required too much of his time and such a project was too big to tackle on his own. Recently Mike realized he could leverage the entire community of .NET influencers using a Wiki to build just such a registry because it would benefit everyone in the community, especially the influencers themselves. “
To avoid the chaos that might result form a wiki, the site has a purpose, goals, rules, and a profile of who might be accepted to contribute. A part of the objective, helping a group better understand its individual members, is somewhat similar to the use of wiki by the Gennova Group that I discussed earlier. In both cases, the evolving nature of the content lends itself well to a wiki.
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