Well we are all talking about wiki's for business but what happens when those business people aren't in their office... they need it on the move. What device do most business people have with them. That would be their mobile phone. So the question now is how do we manage to get wiki's on mobiles and get them to be mobile enabled?
Once again when looking at this we get into all the same sort of issues that arise from the likes of Mobile Mondays on data accessing across different platforms and with different data formats, languages etc. Until we solve these disparities then we will constantly have the same issues. We need to come up with a standard data presentation protocol supported by all operators, phone manufacturers and developers. It is becoming blindingly obvious that without this many mobile data interactions will fail to be used because this in turn leads to a lack of usability in the systems.
On the other hand wiki's themselves need to evolve to be more user friendly in terms of data input and layouts on the pages. The other side of this is that the implementation of wiki's into businesses need to be easy to install. A self install process for different servers would make a world of difference. On top of this well documented methods of how to adapt and enhance wiki's is needed as well. There really isn't a lot out there at the moment about how to use a wiki and how to implement a system in a business environment, let alone linking wiki's, blogs and RSS feeds to streamline businesses and improve workflow and communications internally within businesses or even externally with customers.
posted @ Thursday, February 02, 2006 10:42 AM