Adoption: Co-Founder, Ramit

How do we get wiki adopted into education? We need a core team, adding things, getting people involved. Make it sustainable. Put yourself in users shoes. Weave it into others work flow.

1. Get it to work across organization horizontally. Build support through champions. Top-down, bottom-up, and sideways. Go from every direction. Get it to work by building core team.

2. Put things for people to on pages, they will edit, be successful.

3. Wiki success is the number of edits. Number of edits higher, wiki more successful. Get users to edit more. Make logging in really easy. Put the URL everywhere. Office door, classrooms, teacher mailbox, newspaper, above urinals, book shops, wherever we need so that people will remember what and where pbwiki is because if they can't find it, that's the end of the ball game.

4. Point people to the wiki frequently. Collaboration is longitudnal. Say, "We are putting the meeting notes everywhere if we're going to upload them to the wiki." Send an email with the link to the meeting notes, on wiki. If they want to see them, must log onto the wiki. We can put RSVP's for a party. Drag people on in many ways, people might ignore it the first five times, but the sixth time, they won't.

5. Do a couple of these gentle on-boarding things: have big text link that says new users click here. Take them to a page, ask them to put their name, email address, and responsibilities: do something gentle, even if make a mistake, not end of the world.

6. When we do meetings, take notes live during the meeting. Wiki is central to our work, important to our work. Have questions? Leave comments, edit and update.

7. Create team member pages. Put name, add the wiki to your work signature, put big projects you are working on (big rocks), put small tactics you are working on, put recurring projects you are working on, that way if you go on vacation someone can pick up your slack.

"It's on the wiki."

This should be on out Pbwiki:

Excel sheets, documents, observations, thoughts, ideas, notes, testimonies, personal stories, memoirs, questions, answers,

People will stop asking one to one information, put it on the wiki and let them self serve, and it let's you scale your knowledge much more than you having to respond and spend all day just responding to one off emails. We like to create user loops, we don't ever like to have someone end up at a brick wall, we like to keep them engaged. Use these tools or cash, reward participation.

Create editing cycles, no brick walls here: agenda, meeting notes, project plans in rotation.

Resources for beginner users or masters: pbwiki.com/content/PBwiki+University

Public editing on PBwiki:

1. Automatically import our users. Everyone has accounts with email addresses and passwords, that makes it easier to share monitor who changed what.

2. Public editing means that anyone can edit a page.

3. Send people to wiki and ask them to click edit, create an account or log in with existing account information, immediately gaining access to wiki.