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 === Encouraging wiki use in organizations ===
+* Introduce progressively, encouraging the idea of progressive learning
+** start with why wikis, wikipedia, the culture of wikis
+** good uses
+*** sketch out idea with links
+*** page management
+** show a few good sites - wikipedia
+** create account
+** edit home page, add headings, lists, a link
+** demonstration of formatting/layout, common.css
+** emphasize looking at markup examples
+** introduce idea of semantic, distinct content, resuse
+** few good sites - placeography, discoursedb
+** simple example of semantic use - birthday, show on timeline
+** simple example of a class - todo
+** facet search, narrowing down, copy and paste
+* Find out what their real problems are
 * find champions
 * break wikis into sites "owned" by different people/communities
+* Ease of hosting
+* Don't pretend wiki can do everything, don't oversell
+* Alternative to uploading document - good summary, link to original
+==== Key concepts ====
+* play-doh - for wikis
+* structured
+* wikipedia - well known
+* built on mediawiki, millions of sites, thousands of extensions
+* emphasize control - no database management, open source, users can create data or can lock it down, import and export data
+* good opportunity to introduce and encourage adoption of creative commons
+==== Challenges ====
+* Working with conservative top level management
+** "this is already happening" - examples
+* gaining critical mass