A wiki deployed in a business definitely needs various design customizations, such as adapting it to match the company’s corporate design. Nowadays, even more customization tasks have become standard. The objectives: user acceptance and employee engagement.
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Better wikis: the most popular design adjustments – marketing the wiki
In addition to purely graphic customization of the basic layout to match the corporate design, many more factors have become standard. The objectives: user acceptance and employee engagement. A customized professional design in this context is often worth its weight in gold.
Wiki design: how Confluence should and must be customized
A company wiki needs an custom design. And not as a nice optional extra, but as an absolutely essential component of a successful wiki project. There are sound reasons and convincing arguments for this.
Content design for wikis: Customization options for ease of use
A fundamental factor for the success of an enterprise wiki’s introduction is design optimization. This includes fine-tuning of the wiki’s online appearance, usability and navigation controls. In addition to this, guidelines (or templates) must be created for the actual wiki content to support productive and efficient work. This post covers the content design aspects most important to a company’s new wiki.
Launch campaigns drive the success of company wikis
An enterprise wiki, intranet or knowledge base is most successful when many employees actively use it, driving a good return on your investment. Employees will rarely immediately or actively use their new wiki if their company only runs an automated introduction. A targeted wiki launch campaign can help to advertise the wiki, and create the best conditions for successfully establishing it throughout the company.