Week 2 covered creating a wiki.  I am used to adding info to the IRD wiki which uses Confluence.  Now I am trying out WetPaint.

I created a couple of pages, added a photo, added a youtube clip, added some links and made comments on other people’s pages.

I find Confluence easier to use – probably because I am used to it!  I like using wiki’s.  It’s much easier to find information/related information (you can add links between documents etc) and keep it up-do-date.  Also you can set up alerts for pages that have been updated by others.  The information is also easily accessable rather than being buried in email folders which helps when new people need access to the information.  I am quite happy to reduce the amount of emails in my overfilled mailbox so the less information I have to store by email, the better.  It works well for collaborative working too - for example in IRD we may have 2 or 3 people working on the same set of procedures.