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We just launched our new structured wiki Intranet at NESTA, and I can’t wait to see how this new approach works for the staff in a small/med public sector organisation such as ours. Here’s a post I wrote on the NESTA blogs about it:

I think the structured wiki approach is a great way of introducing organisations to the concepts of the social web - in theory, providing the best of both worlds: the empowerment and collaborative elements of wikis, with the order and familiarity of traditional content-managed systems. In my mind, this caters for both types of users: the freeform searchers & the more traditional navigators. It reduces the fear of chaos, while still providing a great deal of the flexibility and tools common in other ’social web’ environments…

Read the full post & comment here on the Making Innovation Flourish blog >>

My personal favourite moments from NMK’s Goodness 2.0 event, written for the NESTA blogs. Goodness 2.0 was all about how charities, non-profits and NGOs can make use of 2.0 tools and techniques. My main take-away from the event was about the power of the social web to share with the world some truly amazing stories, like the one about a violinist who wanted to give directly to the people who needed it most, rather than giving indirectly through a charity (links below). It moved me to tears.

… there was one big takeaway for me: Steven Buckley’s intro with the water buffalo story. Check the NMK blog for details, or watch the video yourself…

I love stories like the water buffalo story. It’s things like this and the Free Hugs movie that make all this social web stuff worthwhile.

Read the full post & comment here on the Making Innovation Flourish blog >>