Tomorrow afternoon I’ll be interviewing Ross Mayfield, co-founder and CEO of Socialtext for a podcast on PodLeaders.com.
Socialtext makes enterprise social software for collaboration - i.e. Wikis, for corporate customers mostly.
If you have any questions you’d like me to put to Ross, please feel free to leave them in the comments of this post.
I wonder if Ross has an opinion about Twitter. If so, does he think it’s enjoying a nice bounce because Americans don’t normally have text as often as Europeans?
One of the issues with wiki’s is that they tend to focus attention on the knowledge captured not the role contributors played in entering it.
The result is the motivations for contribution tend to personal not social which may make limit contribution. For instance much of Wikipedia’s content is contributed by a relatively few ‘power’ contributors.
I’d be interested Ross’s opinion on how adding recognition and reputation systems would change wiki’s and whether it would increase either the incidence of contribution or the diversity of opinion or information captures.
If reputation would influnce wiki participation how would it be implimented?