Tidbits
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Boosting teamwork with wikis
from Fortune Small Business, February 12,2008
"FORTUNE Small Business) -- Egged on by his colleagues, Ben Sutton snatched $1,000 from his company's safe late last year. It was no heist, but the culmination of a fierce competition at Rosen Law, a firm that specializes in divorce cases in Raleigh. In an effort to get his employees to collaborate more effectively, owner and chief executive Lee Rosen had decided to put his entire operation on a wiki - with a $1,000 cash prize as an incentive to use it.
At its simplest, a wiki is software that lets users work together to create and edit a collection of linked web pages. The online encyclopedia Wikipedia is the best-known example - its 85,000 contributors have written, edited, and policed the content of more than nine million entries. Like Wikipedia, all wikis benefit from the network effect: The more people who use it, the theory goes, the better the quality of the information." Read more...
It Was a Dark and Stormy Night – the game for people who love to read!
From www.bulwer-lytton.com
It Was a Dark and Stormy Night covers everything from novels to poetry, from mysteries to children’s books, from science fiction to books made into movies, and six other categories. You’ll know more than you think, and you’ll get introduced to some great new reads along the way!
Whether you loved Pride and Prejudice or not, you and your friends will have fun revisiting the world of the classic—and not-so-classic—books that you first met in school, at the library, or on the beach. (Say, wasn’t that the title of a book…?) http://www.goodreadgames.com/.