Event Description

• Announcements
• Highlights from WikiSym2008
• 10 minute talks

Main Speaker: Martin Cleaver

This month's speaker will be Toronto Wiki Tuesday's founder, Martin Cleaver. Martin is principal of Blended Perspectives Inc., where he provides collaboration strategy and solutions based on leading wiki platforms such as TWiki and Confluence to the insurance, transportation and healthcare industries. Martin holds an M.Sc. Computing Science degree from Newcastle University in the UK, and an MBA from Melbourne Business School in Australia. He holds the position of Chair for Demos and Posters at WikiSym 2008.

Highlights from WikiSym 2008

WikiSym is the annual conference on Wikis, and ran two weeks ago in Porto, Portugal. The Conference brought together a mad blend of corporate managers, with wiki-centric researchers, and cutting edge consultants into a fest of cross-disciplinary insight. Learn the joint research efforts centered on Wikipedia, Distributed and Semantic Wikis.

http://www.wikisym.org/ws2008/index.php/Program

10 min talks

Got something wiki-related to share? Got a question? Made a discovery? We want to hear from you!

Announcements

• http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AUG/Toronto+Atlassian+User+Group+-+October+14,+2008

Note another new Location! Duke Of Gloucester Pub
Date: Wednesday 24 Sep 2008*Time: 6:30 for 7pm

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When and Where:

6:30pm, Wednesday 24th September

At the Duke of Gloucester, 2 blocks south of Yonge at Bloor.

http://www.dukeofgloucester.net/ (website unavailable as of 17 Sep 2008)

Please sign up at

Who should come and why:
Interested in the topic? Got an opinion? Or just interested to network? Come join our community.

• Managers and leaders responsible for applying such questions to the use of wikis in organisations
• Entrepreneurs wanting to use a wiki as the backbone to their site
• Change transformation agents using wikis to instigate organisational transparency using a wiki
• Consultants and designers who build integration, navigation, visuals and plugins
• Wiki contributors, users and wiki gardeners

About Toronto Wiki Tuesdays and Blended Perspectives:

Toronto Wiki Tuesdays has been running since 2005 and has a mandate to spread the word about how a wiki can transform communication in organisations and the nature of business. Toronto Wiki Tuesdays was founded and is run by Martin Cleaver M.Sc. MBA, Head Blender of Blended Perspectives and a Chair of WikiSym, 2008, 2009 the International Symposium on the use of Wikis.

Comments about July's meetup:

• Connie Crosby - “Excellent presentation and Q&A. I didn't miss the overhead projector since the discussion was excellent. ”
• Mary Wilson - “ I was a first-timer, and the session exceeded my expectations. The speaker was very informative and entertaining, and audience members were knowledgeable and asked great questions. ”

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