Wiki Wiki

I have decided to share the steps of creating a Wiki for use in an Academic Advising Center. A wiki can serve many functions. According to Meredith Farkas, author of Social Software in Libraries, Building Collaboration, Communication, and Community Online, wikis "can become true community resources that position a library as an online hub of its local community." I have taken this concept and related it to the position I hold as an Academic Advisor, providing information to hundreds of students. The Advising Center is an information hub for academic advice and a resource to the thousands of students that form a community in a certain college or of a particular major. As a major resource to our students and each other in the profession I have decided to implement the use of a wiki in place of or in addition to a traditional hard copy advising guide/training manual/handbook/policies and procedures statement, etc.