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24 Feb
I downloaded Wordpress 2.7.1 today at work with the intention of using it as a collaborative tool for my team to track development plan items for discussion. We have our own renegade web server with a LAMP stack installed, so it only took me about 5 minutes to put the whole thing together. Wordpress is so stinking simple to install as long as you have easy access to your database.
So by the end of the day, I had a running copy working on our production portal and had user accounts assigned to the 5 of my team members along with a welcome post to kick off the conversation. I’ll update you later as to the success of this experiment. I have a feeling it will go over pretty well since the team is pretty tech savvy and really strive to get more Web 2.0 tools into the company.
We are also toying around with the notion of building a wiki to store all of our documents and processes. TWiki and MediaWiki are the two that we’re working with at the moment. Are there any others that we should be considering? Since we’re a small group, just about any tool will be easy for us to install. I’m interested in your feedback, so let me know your results from testing both blogs and wikis in the enterprise.
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Update: I got some very good feedback from my team regarding the use of a blog tool for sparking discussions. However, we can across an almost immediate technical stumbling block with the installation. It seems that Wordpress uses some very specific directory locations for media and htaccess files which makes a multi-server installation difficult.
I have a production portal site that consists of 2 servers. Originally, I turned on permalinks to use “Day and Name” entry types, but then I could not open the individual post pages to view or comment on them, so I turned that off to get the site working again.
Next, I realized that it won’t be simple for us to share files along with our posted articles because depending on the server that you log into, the uploaded files will be stored on that server and not the other. It’s a crap shoot as to whether the viewer will get to download the attached file. Perhaps if there was a module to allow media to be stored in the database instead, this would be a non-issue.
More to come as we continue to delve into blogs at work…
I REALLY liked your post and blog! It took me a little bit to find your site…but I book marked it. Would you mind if I but a link back to my site?
Great stuff. I have looked at using wp for a group collaboration and info sharing tool, but ran into another issue (than yours) with file sharing: I could find no good plugins for managing files.
I did not want my users to have to learn the dashboard for files, and I could not find much else out there.
ON WIKI:
I have used media wiki on another site, and its pretty good stuff…however, unless you are planning on a LOT of content, I would just go with using WP.
Use pages for more static content (or turn on comments for updates) and create separate categories for informational (as opposed to blog posts) updates.
I find this works well, unless you NEED a wiki.
~ Dpak
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