Wikilicious

Have you ever been to an “unconference”, one of those events where the actual schedule events is created by the attendees at the event itself? Usually, there will be a huge white board or rolls of butcher paper with a grid of time slots and room numbers. Below left is a sample from O’Reilly Media’s Foo Camp (photo thanks to Michael Arrington of TechCrunch). It’s cool, but honestly, it’s a bit of a mess.

That’s one of the reasons we’re so happy to announce that Pathable now has integrated wiki support (below right). A wiki is a web site or page that visitors can edit and collaborate on in-place, without any special software or anything, That means a conference organizer can post a blank schedule, and attendees can fill in their session schedules in advance, deleting, moving, re-arranging as they like, with just a few clicks of the mouse and keyboard.

Of course, wiki’s aren’t just for unconference scheduling. You can use them for pretty much anything you want people to collaborate on writing: session notes, ride share lists, location attraction recommendations, volunteer sign-up sheets, Birds of Feather (BoF) session scheduling, etc.

If you’re a conference organizer, just go to your host tools and click “Enable wiki” under Event Basics to get a wiki on your site.

Huge thanks to WetPaint for making this so easy!