Developing Wikis in SharePoint Hosting Sites with WSS 3.0

In WSS 3.0 you can create a wiki for specific group of people to quickly capture and share ideas by creating simple pages within SharePoint and linking all these pages together. Adding wikis in SharePoint hosting allows team members to follow best practices and group insights.

Creating a wiki within SharePoint 3.0 can act as a great tool for capturing knowledge, as wikis encourage all team members to participate. A wiki within WSS 3.0 can help your team collect ideas, assemble content from numerous sources, and plan together as a team. Use of wikis within SharePoint 3.0 is a first-rate idea for brainstorming. Wikis are well known for “group editing”. Wikis within hosted SharePoint can be used to create designs, manage information, data bases, and create instruction guides.

To add a wiki to your SharePoint WSS team site simply click under the “Site Actions” tab and click on the “Wiki Page Library”. Wikis in hosted SharePoint are very easy to create, annotate and edit, they also have the ability to track changes and team member contributions.

Wikis in SharePoint hosting and SharePoint services are built on the Windows Server 2003, which provides organizations with the ability to build easily scaleable, web-based applications for business. These are specifically designed to meet the growing and changing needs of any organization.

Using wikis within the WSS 3.0 environment will help you stay on top of assignments wherever you may be with a Microsoft Windows Mobile®, WAP, cHTML, or xHTML enabled mobile device. In this way you can review or update your hosted Sharepoint web site, wikis, task lists, post to your blog, and also send photos via e-mail from camera devices.

Adrian Gates (Adrian@apps4rent.com) is a Business Manager with Apps4Rent (http://apps4rent.com/sharepoint.html); which offers premium hosted Exchange, Microsoft SharePoint Hosting Services and Microsoft Exchange Hosted Services.