Try it Yourself! Install a Wiki in 10 minutes

Wiki is a powerful web 2.0 tool when used for communication and collaboration. There are many online Wiki pages where you can play around to get a hang of the tool. But having your own setup will help you chose the right kind of Wiki for you project and also add customization to suit your teams.

We now install simple and fast Wiki - WikkaWiki

Step 1: Install XAMPP software on your PC or Linux server. XAMPP is an implementation of LAMP (Linux, Apache Server, MySQL Database and PHP/Perl). This software will allow you to host it as a webservice.

Download XAMPP from: http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html

At the end of installation, XAMPP will ask you if you want to start Control Panel.

Start "Apache" web server and "MySQL" database.

By default the software gets 

Step 2: Download WikkaWiki software

Download from: http://wikkawiki.org/HomePage

Step 3: Unzip the WikkaWiki to directory. Rename the folder to 'wikka'

   C:\xampp\htdocs\ if it is Windows

   After unzip, your directory will be C:\xampp\htdocs\wikka

   If it is Linux, copy the unzipped files where your 'htdocs' directory is.

Step 4: Open browser and point to

   http://localhost/phpmyadmin

   Click on 'Databases' Tab

   Create Database: wikka

   Click 'Go'

Step 5: Go to http://localhost/wikka

    Database: wikka

    Username: root

    Password: <empty>

Follow the instruction on screen. Wikka might ask you to copy a file to another directory.

WikkaWiki is up and running!

PMI Bangalore Chapter - Presentation on Project Management 2.0

Slides used for presentation in PMI Bangalore chapter on Dec 1st 2011.

Click here: PPT Share
(1 or 2 slides have issue. I will upload in another location, where the PPT is intact)

Abstract:

Communication and coordination is the most time consuming task for a project manager. The interaction with stakeholders is within and outside enterprise in different geographies. Any improvement in this area can increase the effectiveness multifold.
Web 2.0 technologies have been admired for the job of collaboration between people and systems. Web 2.0 applications are the most popular for social networking, Wikipedia, blogs, microblogs, RSS and Podcasts to name a few.
In this session we talk about practical ways to use these technologies for Project Management.
Key take-aways
1. Familiarize with different Web 2.0 technologies 
2. Understanding which set of tools are useful in which phase of the Project life cycle 
3. Benefits of using these tools 
4. Phased approach to introducing Web 2.0 tools in your project

Andrew Filey article on Top down and Bottom up Project Management

Top down and Bottom up Project Management

Purpose of the Blog

Web 2.0 is for all on Internet. Enterprise 2.0 is for the corporates. Project Management 2.0 is for community of Project Managers who can benefit from "web as a platform". I post in this site the articles, experiments using web 2.0 tools and invite thoughts from others.

SlideShare: evolution of web 2.0

Web 2.0 evolution, services