Take a look at the links over there on the left. These are nonprofit organizations, resources, service providers, and experts. They all have some common attributes:
1. Nonprofits need to get things done – deliver services
2. Getting things done requires hands-on people – clients, staff, volunteers, and stakeholders
3. People need information that is constantly changing
- who’s doing what?
- what has changed?
- when is it needed?
- where’s the info?
- why are we doing this?
- how are we doing it?
4. Information needs to be easily communicated, readily accessible, and regularly updated
5. Communication is typically poor, expensive, or both
Its all about service delivery and wikis facilitate the dynamic information needs for any nonprofit group. The nonprofit arena has a huge benefit to be realized using wikis as a simple, seamless communications platform allowing more people to better serve for faster results.
Once nonprofits start demonstrating this, maybe the light will go on for the enterprise arena.
Good post on nonprofits and wikis! BTW, nice to discover your blog!
Posted by: Beth | 11/02/2006 at 08:34 PM
Thanks for the article. I need some help. Anyone heard about/interested in setting up a Wiki for a (large) labor union? I am just doing preliminary research and finding, well, nothing yet. Would appreciate anything. Thanks.
Posted by: Tim Jenkins | 11/14/2006 at 08:48 PM
Mark Dilley is the person to talk with about Labor Unions and wiki.
Posted by: Lion Kimbro | 01/04/2007 at 05:01 PM
Is there a wiki set up as a directory for nonprofit organizations? I have had some major difficulty locating one this far.
Posted by: James Beitner | 07/07/2009 at 05:34 PM