Internal Wikis software recommendations

errlloyd

Hi all, I am on a small start up team of around 4, expected to grow to around 15 within 24 months or so.

I am trying to decide on some internal documentation software where we can share links, articles and notes in a sort of living document. An internal wiki is perfect, but I'd also like some sort of newsfeed so people can log on and comment on posts and changes. Anyone got any suggestions that have helped your teams?

verycool

SharePoint? Sounds like it'd be a decent centralized platform.

Failing that you could try MS Teams. They just released that for "free".

https://products.office.com/en-us/microsoft-teams/free

https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/12/microsoft-teams-gets-a-free-version/

errlloyd

verycool wrote: »

SharePoint? Sounds like it'd be a decent centralized platform.

Failing that you could try MS Teams. They just released that for "free".

https://products.office.com/en-us/microsoft-teams/free

https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/12/microsoft-teams-gets-a-free-version/

Wow, teams looks perfect.

Thanks so much!

verycool

errlloyd wrote: »

Wow, teams looks perfect.

Thanks so much!

You're welcome.

Slack would be the main competitor, but I've used Teams in the past and it sounded like it fit your needs.

https://alternativeto.net/software/microsoft-teams/

StupidLikeAFox

errlloyd wrote: »

An internal wiki is perfect, but I'd also like some sort of newsfeed so people can log on and comment on posts and changes. Anyone got any suggestions that have helped your teams?

You can download wikipedias software for free and use that as a wiki - everyone would at least be familiar with how it works.

But, and you can take or leave this advice, I've worked in a couple of companies where managers tried to set up a kind of internal social network. The expectation was that people would write status updates/blog posts/comment/like/share etc but it never really worked. People just don't use it naturally, in a work environment people just want to get the job done, collaboration tools can help but and you cant really force people to "socialise" with a work focus if you get me

errlloyd

I think you're right tbh. At the moment there is only a handful of us, we have a WhatsApp group that is super handy and constructive. But the conversation is unstructured and not easily searchable. We just want to migrate that to somewhere permenant. But I agree it's unlikely to catch on as easily.

errlloyd

@verycool teams is great, but do you find it quite laggy? It takes between 45 seconds and a minute to load files.

Everything about it is perfect, just it's so slow.

verycool

errlloyd wrote: »

@verycool teams is great, but do you find it quite laggy? It takes between 45 seconds and a minute to load files.

Everything about it is perfect, just it's so slow.

I think it depends if you're using the web app or the installed application, but it works fine for me in the office (Windows 7 desktop, 8 GB RAM).


Internet speeds and the PC details (RAM, CPU, etc.) might impact how fast it loads. Unfortunately I can't find the system requirements for it.

siblers

I've used Confluence which is part of Atlassian.net. It's great for wiki pages and you can see when someone has made a new comment, article, edited a page etc

mneylon

Internally we use Slack for communication, but we also have a couple of internal Wordpress sites that are for sharing docs etc.,

ironclaw

We've started using GSuite. The upshot is we are all familiar with it and you have the benefit of all the tools that Google gives you as well e.g Calendar, Drive, Docs etc. You can even load your own domain onto it and use GMail.

For tasks / stickies, we use Asana.