Early in september I blogged about the progress of the international online survey. After that post the amount of participants has almost doubled.

I’m glad that people like Des Walsh, Luis Suarez, Tim Bonnemann, Jon Silvers and some other supported me by blogging about the survey. Thanks!

In June I started an English version of my online survey about the use of Wikis in Enterprises. Until now 212 people participated in the German survey, and 69 people took the English survey (of this 69 participants, 18 are from Germany). Come on – I think the number of international responses has to grow up a little bit…

It’s now time to finish the collection of data and examing the results carefully. So I decided to close down the English survey in three weeks from now on: on 25. September 2006.

I really like to do some country specific comparisons or at least International/USA/Germany comparisons. For this I need more data from Enterprises outside of Germany. Keep in mind, that the survey adresses enterprises of any size and also enterprises not using a wiki. It is held short on purpose and answering it will take only 5-10 minutes at most.

Short time after closing down the survey, I will publish some chosen results at the results page like the ones you can already find at the german result page. After my diploma theses is finished (in november), I will publish more detailed data.

If you still didn’t took the survey: You can do it now. (Thanks!)

One and a half month ago I blogged about the online survey “Wikis in Unternehmen” (Wikis in Enterprises). Since this posting more than 200 people took the German survey and I was often asked to translate it to English to open it up to an international audience.

I needed some time, but here it is: the English online survey “Wikis in Enterprises”.

The survey is part of the study “Wikis in Enterprises” by the Department of Personnel Economics and Human Resource Management of the University of Cologne. I’m writing my diploma thesis about this subject.

The survey adresses enterprises of any size and also enterprises not using a wiki. It is held short on purpose and answering it will take only 5-10 minutes at most.

Motivation

„Gartner predicts that wikis – such as the popular Wikipedia online encyclopedia – should become commonplace in at least 50 percent of enterprises worldwide within the next four years.“ – Aaron Tan: Embrace collaboration tools or fall behind, says expert. ZDNet Asia. June 07 2005

A lot of enterprises use wiki technology today. Scientific research on this subject thus far has only been sporadic. Aim of the survey “Wikis in Enterprises” is the examination of the factors which work in favor or disfavor for the use of wikis in enterprises. These factors can for example be the affiliation to a business sector, the size of an enterprise, the listing or the outsourcing of IT activities. Dependencies between these factors may also lead to interesting conclusions.

Why should you participate?

• The survey is answered in only a few minutes.
• Only with a large group of participants a big data pool can be generated which allows valid results and cognitions and recommendations.
• The participans get noticed about the results.
• You support “Wikimetrics”…

You can digg the survey.