that’s fascinating, I’ve never come across anyone using a wiki to organise family stuff before! How marvellous. The whole area of how feeling good about the people you work with affects the kind of tools you’re willing to use to collaborate is a fascinating one, so the parallels with family life are most pertinent.

I’ve not got into the personal wiki thing yet – I’ve downloaded a wiki app called voodoo pad, but clearly have some more fundamental changes that I need to make to my productivity GTD workflow before it’ll become useful

We really need to get you down to Tuttle some time – there are a lot of people down here you’d get on great with!

There has to be a respect for the people with whom your collaborating and a willingness to invest in that relationship and those personal transactions and if the willingness comes from fandom and mutual gratitude then you’re off to a flying start.

I use wiki’s as a great tool to aide collaboration in two different environments and you can guess what they are work an at home. Starting at work, the take up of the wiki’s has been slow, nobody can see the return or is willing to make the investment in learning how they work, they just don’t care enough about the work to make the investment, which is massively disappointing, but it’s not an environment of fandom for sure.

Using wiki’s at home is a different ball game, the extended family care and invest the time to make them work. We use one to manage the who brings what and when we have family get togethers.

This is fascinating question for me, how good could a business be to work in, how productive it would be, how reactive to it’s market and dynamic it could be, if all the employees worked in a atmosphere of fandom and gratitude.