Today I created a wiki for my MBA program. I've been thinking that there are so few people in the MBA program, that it's foolish for us not to work together. We have study groups and team projects, but all that knowledge is lost after class is over. Why not preserve some of it? The wiki format seems ideal.
Also, I'm tired of bookstores getting rich off of college kids with federally-backed loan money to burn. Instead of selling your books back to Follet at the end of the semester for $8 and then having some poor schmuck buy it at the beginning of next semester for $80, why not trade them at the end of the semester? Swap them or sell them for a decent price. Even if you sell it for $20, you made $12 more than what you would've with the bookstore, and the other guy saved $60. Seller win. Buyer win. Bookstore lose.
These things are easily done with a wiki, and there's not much maintenance involved. Everything is organic. Editing, revising, appending. I chose Wikispaces because it's free and fast, but I know that there are shareware wiki packages out there, like TikiWiki. I've played with them too, but they're more for if you want to take ownership of what you're doing. For a hobby wiki like this one, Wikispaces should work great.
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
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