Like all of you, I’ve made many New Year’s resolutions, long lists of ideas and tasks that I intend to pursue and complete. So far, I have already accomplished one of them. Ever since, BlawgThink, I’ve been smitten by the concept of possibility of the wiki. Seems like they offer a cheap and efficient way for solo and small firm lawyers to collaborate on projects with each other and with clients.
But the first wiki that I set up is for a trade association that I helped found this past year. There’s an important rulemaking that issued a couple of days ago that can potentially make or break this particular industry. As a result, our nascent association must mobilize and file comments. Ordinarily, filing comments in rulemakings involves numerous meetings, phone calls and hundreds of billable hours – which require time and resources that our group simply doesn’t have. So, I created this wiki here , using the free and incredibly easy PB Wiki application. Members can post their responses to the questions posed in the rulemaking right online – which will help eliminate repetitive topics and allow us to collaboratively refine our approach. We’ll have a teleconference for members next week and introduce them to the wiki and see where it goes.
Next on my to-do list is podcasting. Like Sherry, I feel as if I’m losing my technological edge and I don’t want to be left behind.
Wiki, wiki good blawging
J’accuse myself of being one of the Web’s biggest wiki whiners. I have tried to use wikis a couple of times with large groups. The result has consistently been (a) a mess, (b) tumbleweeds, or (c) a mess, followed by