Today I met up with the students who have been managing a research report for me on the adoption of social media in Ireland to review the returns and plan the next steps of the report so that we can provide valuable feedback and input to those companies who participated.

As I anticipated, one of the last used tools were Wiki’s. Very often people wonder how best to use them.

Here are four ways I’ve personally experienced wiki’s being used:

1. Project management – enabling the team members to come together to share information online and contribute to the project
2. Online documentation – holding major documents in a central place, for example staff handbooks, which then eliminates the need for hard copies and allowing for real time updates no matter where your team is located across the globe
3. Authoring a book – whether authoring a book on your own or with others, a wiki allows you to keep all your thoughts in one place
4. Registrations for conferences – for example, you can register to attend the forthcoming PodCamp Ireland and indicate if you would like to speak at our wiki.

This week I was delighted that Dan Schawbel asked me to contribute and collaborate on a global project through a wiki. The purpose of this specific project is to create the definitive definition of personal branding. You can read what William Arruda, Penelope Trunk and a host of other personal branding experts have developed thus far over at the Personal Branding Wiki and add your comment.

Remember wiki’s, like many social media tools are free or low cost to put in place. So what projects are you working on that could be enhanced, how could you collaborate with others or how could you enhance your productivity with a wiki?

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