Why did Johns Hopkins University decide to use a wiki?
It had nothing to do with Confluence. It really had to with the involvement and commitment of those involved: we were not interacting very much outside of the system. Having a tool that would allow us to interact would have been great had we interacted. So I sat here on this really great tool that I was anxious to use and said, “Hey, why don’t we start using Confluence internally?” One of my managers and I turned from creating Word documents and Excel spreadsheets into creating the almost living, breathing pages within Confluence. I found it to be ridiculous to write a lengthy specification document when all I am going to do is to send that document to a number of people as an e-mail attachment and they are all going to redline it and then send it back to me. Half of them are all going to say the same thing anyway. Instead I thought, ‘why don’t I go into Confluence, create a page and fill in the details. This way, when we go to write a specification document, anyone who wants to collab
