Wikis

I enjoyed the section on wikis, particularly exploring the recommended wikis listed on the 23-Things page. I found some interesting library information, including but not limited to, free webinars on many different aspects of libraries. I bookmarked a few and will check them out more when I have time.

I am very excited that SBBC just switched our Virtual Library into a wiki format. Granted editing access is limited - I don't even have access, as far as I know. But it looks great, has a very clean feel to it, and has a search option! All very nice improvements.

As I was reading about all of the wonders of Wikis, I was also in the process of helping proofread, compile, and format our campus's IEP. Which sparked a splendid idea - wikify the IEP! As we have our different departments contributing their own parts, and continually editing those, it can become quite a mess to keep track of it, especially bringing it all together into the single, unified document it needs to be. I worked overtime to make that happen, manually. SO a wiki was the obvious answers. Ideally.

I browsed around a little bit though and it may not be that simple, practically. I need to play around with some wikis until I actually find something that would work well; including, preferably, a way to upload a template if not an entire document to work off of, a way for multiple people to be able to edit it and yet have it password-protected, and.. I think there were a few other options which I am not remember right now. But having all of those helpful little additions, which would be what makes the wiki worthwhile, either brings in a dollar amount or complicates the process.

And then there's proposing the idea and getting everybody on board with it...
So we'll see. The immediate need has subsided for now but it will arise again soon. If by then I find a wiki that would work, I'll propose it.

But still, I'm pretty impressed myself at the prospect. ;)