week10-Reflection: Guest speaker-Eugene Lee

Reflection: Guest speaker-Eugene Lee

According to the classmate’s discussing guest speaker-Eugene Lee. I know that Engene’s background. He is Korea-American. His parents like most of Asian parents have high expectation to study in super universities and have a good career.

Eugene has a great speaking on Wiki. General knowledge about Wiki , Wiki is an online resource which users to add and edit content collectively. Wiki is a Website that allows users to add content or edit existing content, typically without the need for registration. It allows users to link any number of pages together, either other Wiki pages or external pages. The ease of interaction and operation makes a Wiki a very effective tool for collaborative authoring for either small groups or large masses of people. Wiki is used in different careers which is able to used in education, business, and so on.

Eugene states that:

1.collaborative intelligence

-people communicate and share information in the company.

- It can extend to great for field sales & marketing teams comprised of employees & external partners.

2. Participatory knowledgebase

- Great for technical support & customer service.

- Capture & organize together content from customers & internal

3. Flexible client collaboration

- managing complex projects with geographically dispersed teams, great for extranets where connecting with partners and suppliers is crucial

4. Business social networks

- discover the experts and tap the innovations of employees.

WiKi has its characteristics:
Open / Public
-Any user can edit any entry. This includes adding content, turning existing content into links, or changing content altogether.

Ease
-A defining characteristic of wiki technology is the ease with which pages can be created and updated.
Incremental
-Entries can cite other entries, including pages that have not been written yet.

Organic
-The structure and content of the site evolves as long as it's used

Precise
Entry titles encourage focus, highlighting of crucial terms & concepts.

Observable
-Activity within the site can be watched and reviewed by any visitor to the site.

Mundane
-Easily learned coding conventions, for activities like building inside & outside links, formatting text, uploading images

Wiki is a good tool in business or education. It creates a good environment to connect for employee and employer. It also creates a great Network.