Collaborating with others for show notes

[gozar]

For the Bitsmack Podcast (http://bitsmack.com/), me and the other co-host live 70 miles apart. To help us work on the notes for each show I've set up a wiki for us to use. I use Mediawiki (http://wikipedia.sourceforge.net/), the same wiki that Wikipedia uses. It requires PHP and MySQL, but it's a piece of cake to setup and it allows us to contribute notes and edit throughout the week before we broadcast.

For those that aren't familiar with a wiki, here's the related Wikipedia article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki).

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[thumper369]

To help us work on the notes for each show I've set up a wiki for us to use.

This is something that only you and your co-host use? Or do your listeners view it also?

Can you edit the notes at the same time?
Can you use a template? Or do you have to copy from a previous show if you want to just edit it for the current show?



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[gozar]

To help us work on the notes for each show I've set up a wiki for us to use.

This is something that only you and your co-host use? Or do your listeners view it also?

Can you edit the notes at the same time?
Can you use a template? Or do you have to copy from a previous show if you want to just edit it for the current show?


We just use it as an outline for the show and then we copy the relevant parts into the show notes for the listeners. We don't set it up so anybody can see our evil plans for our upcoming show. :-)

As for editing at the same time, Media wiki does a good job of making sure we don't trample on each other's stuff, and it keeps a complete history of all the changes ever made. It makes it easy to recover stuff accidently deleted or to see what's changed.

We've been just copying a general outline into each shows notes, and then filling it in. I think it might be able to do some template stuff, but I haven't looked into it.

The nicest thing about the wiki is that we can add to the show at anytime as long as we have Internet access, and can see what each of us has put into it.