Wiki as Management Tool

Thanks to the Free Range Librarian for the idea of using a wiki as a project management space. She's using it for her creative writing projects, but there's really not a lot of difference in managing writing projects and managing any other kind of project, is there? It's all content and deadlines.

It meets a lot of my needs: available anywhere, including from my wireless-enabled PDA; easily available to others; I can include meeting minutes, notes, and files; it's indexable with titles and tags; and I should be able to add the site to my search file search them with Google Desktop if I want to do so. We'll see how it works.

My main concern is that it's publicly available, so I'll have to keep an eye on what I'm putting out there. I personally believe that information wants to be free and so am tempted to do a total download to the space, but I have to remember that in some cases (especially with the School of Medicine projects), I am working with other people's intellectual property and they may not have such liberal ideas.

Oh, would you like to see the madness unfold? Send me comments if you have thoughts.