When in Doubt Wiki.

I recently read the fourth chapter in the book Wikis for School Leaders by Stephanie Sandifer.  This chapter was all about when and where to use a wiki in the context of leadership and specifically in a school setting.  One of the first things that she said was that Wikis should never contain personal information or important data about the teachers or students.  It is important to realize that wikis like other things on the internet can never really be 100 percent secure especially when you  have a large amount of people who have access to various wikis that you may be using.  They also suggested that wikis be used as a sort of memo instead of using meetings to get information out to certain people, they said that wikis would be better used for instead of meeting time when people could be getting work or other things done.  Following suit with using wikis as a form of memos they also suggested simply embedding a link to the wiki with daily updates instead of attaching word documents or pdf files that get bulky and can clog up a person's email.  This is a more simple solution to keeping computers running more efficiently and it makes it more likely that everyone will look at the information trying to be conveyed.
 
They also used this chapter to talk about how wikis can be used as a form of professional development.  They not only allow the users to create personal profiles where their employers can look and use the information displayed on that page to create teams to work on certain projects or see who is more involved in the workplace and who may not be as involved.  Along with that they mentioned using wikis for PLCs (Professional Learning Communities).  Wikis can be used as a way for professionals to communicate with one another especially when their may not be another teacher who works in their speciality area at that school, it allows teachers to communicate with in a district.  They also can be used for storing lesson plans and sharing curriculum mapping ideas with other teachers.  Basically wikis allow educators to share information more effectively and efficiently than something like email would do.