WikiPatterns:MyPersonalInfo
My Personal Info (aka. My Space) is a pattern in which people are encouraged to post personal profile pages, MySpace-style. It's a good way for people to get started contributing to the wiki by posting contact information, a picture, a short biography, website URL, etc.
Contact information
Blog and personal website
Biography
etc.
an invitation to use the wiki is a great precursor to the MySpace pattern, because it formally offers people the opportunity to learn to to use the wiki and start participating.
the Poker pattern is a good next step after MySpace.
Once individual content is posted, putting social content like the weekly poker schedule gets people regularly looking at the wiki.
the scaffold pattern is especially useful for creating a standard general organization and set of content on profile pages.
since profile pages contain crucial information like employee contact details, pictures, and biographies, this contributes to the wiki becoming a magnet for an organization.
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