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Technology for the rest of us: Easy to use wikis

Technology is getting more and more complex, but at the same time, amazing technological benefits are available to us average Joes without too much fiddling around. That is what this column will be covering. Every Monday, right here at BloggingStocks.com, I'll feature an easy-to-use hack, gadget or service that really can make your life better. Geeks, technophiles and early adopters have plenty of other places to look for hot new technologies to try. Here you'll find technology for the rest of us.

A wiki is a web page that anyone can edit. You can set up a wiki so that anyone coming across can see or edit it. Or you can set up a wiki so that anyone who logs in to see it can edit it, or you can set up a wiki so anyone can see it, and make changes, but only a moderator can accept those changes. There are a lot of ways to set up a wiki, and it makes for an incredible tool. Businesses can use it to let their own customers create help documentation, or keep their website up to date. People can use it to plan projects or run a team.

Wikis are starting to hit the attention of the mainstream. This is in large part thanks to Wikipedia, an encyclopedia that anyone can edit, but wikis are also being used for a variety of other things, as people think about how they could use a web page anyone can update and thus use the wisdom of their team, or the crowds around them.

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