These four friends are going out for a camping trip. They need to bring the right supplies because they are backpacking. The group is to plan and plan well so coordination is the key. They are all computer users to start planning with an email. Starts with one, but then becomes a barraged. Email is not good at coordinating and organizing a groups input. This is the old way, boo! The important information is scattered across everyone inbox. This is not coordination.
Let us start over, there is a better way. They require you to using a website called the WIKI. Using a WIKI, the group can coordinate there trip better. This is the new way, yeah!. Most WIKI is working the same. They make easy for everyone to change what appears on the webpage with the click of a button. It is easy as erasing a word and rewriting it.
The buttons are really important, there are two that are essential. There Edit and Save, and they are always use together. Let us see them in action. Here are camping friends and this is a WIKI website. Like all WIKI’s it has an edit button. Clicking this button will transform to webpage into a document. All you have to do is click it and the webpage becomes a document, ready for editing.
Editing the page means you can add or move words or change how they look just like writing a letter. Once you finished editing you click save and the document becomes a webpage once again and it is ready for the next person to edit it. Easy, edit, write and save. Using this process a group can coordinate more easily. Let us apply this to our camping friends, who need to bring the right supplies.
Mary signs up for a WIKI site and then see the new sites for the first time. She clicks the edit button to get started. She creates two lists for camping. What we have and what we need. Under we have she lists the things she will bring a cooler, stove, and flashlight. Under we need she lists items that others need to bring, compass, lighter, water and food. She finishes the process by clicking save and the website now has lists for the camping trip.
Now, it is John’s turn. John visits the WIKI website, clicks edit and the page becomes a document ready for him to make changes. John volunteers to bring food and water. So, he moves those to the half column. He also realizes the groups only the knife and rope once his finish he can save the WIKI is ready for the next person.
Henry this is the WIKI, clicks edit and he can add the page. He remembers that they need a tent, Henry’s save the page and the WIKI is ready for Frank. Frank has a page and agrees to bring the remaining items complete in the process. Frank’s save and realized that something awesome the group has created the perfect camping lists without the email.
But wait, one thing is missing; they need a location for the camp site. The WIKI can help with this too, but another pages needed. John’s visit the WIKI and clicks edit, to edit the page and tried on the words locations and highlights it. He did not click the links button this changes the word locations into a link to a new page. John click save.
And next, Frank’s visit the WIKI and sees the lists and a link to new page. He clicks on the locations link and arrive at the new page. This new page and able to group the group to use the same edit right say process to coordinate locations. This process can be repeated over and over.
This three buttons edit, save and link make it possible to organize a great camping trip or create the worlds biggest encyclopedia. You can sign up for your own WIKI at this websites, pbwiki, wetpaint, or wikispaces. I am Lee LeFever and this is WIKI’s in Plain English on a Commoncraft Show.
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