Wikis

I've had a bit of experience with wikis before. My department (C&RD) has had one for some time and although I haven't been particularly involved in it, I've been able to follow developments in the department, which was useful given the amount of change happening. However, its main use now seems to be as a room booking calendar which, while useful, rather lacks the interest of the initial set up. I get a weekly email summary of activity so I can see if anything more exciting is going on, which is a helpful reminder that it's there and keeps me up to date with it.

The nice thing about the Web 2 blog is that it uses WetPaint so I don't need to come up with yet another username/password combo to forget since I can use my C&RD blog sign-in. I had issues at the start because of using Internet Explorer 6 but since I prefer Firefox anyway for its tabs of usefulness, it was a good excuse to download it :) Then the Easy Edit button duly appeared and things became much simpler. The wiki was easy to use (I updated an OULS related link) and has a lot of information, mostly well presented and structured. It's a neat way of collating information that can be readily accessed by staff.