Way back in May 2007, I opined that a Wiki for help documentation would be a good idea. Many of you liked the idea. Senior Product Manager for Customer Learning, Victor Solano, let me know that the Autodesk Wiki Help beta now offers a collaborative community learning experience to users of the following 2011 Manufacturing products:

• Autodesk Inventor // more
• AutoCAD Electrical // more
• Autodesk Inventor Fusion Technology Preview // more
• Autodesk Inventor Publisher // more

This means you can:

• Directly edit Help pages
• Contribute and Share Videos
• Add New Help pages and articles
• Add comments to content pages
• Rate content and influence the search rankings
• Tag content to make information easier to find
• Browse and Search content across multiple products
• Email forward tool for topics
• Subscribe to RSS feeds

The features of the Wiki include:

• WYSIWYG Editor: Users can easily contribute content with a familiar rich text editor.
• Rich Media and Web Extension Integration: Video streaming from YouTube and Web extension integration with Web widgets such as Twitter, Flickr, digg, LinkedIn, and Dapper.
• Share Video from and stream to popular social media sites like iGoogle and MetaCafe.
• Editable video: Users can share videos and can optionally make these editable, allowing others to create a video storyboard with the integrated editing studio.
• Security and Permissions: Autodesk can create and manage user groups and users with different permissions to view, edit, and share content.
• Subscribe to content via feeds and email notifications
• Moderation: Moderators insure compliance with Wiki Guidelines and publish content only after review.
• Autodesk.com look and feel for easy integration with Autodesk Community sites like the MFG Community site.
• User Profile Reuse: Users can use their profile information and autodesk.com login through single sign-on.

This release represents an exciting step toward greater learning collaboration between Autodesk and its product end users. So get involved. Participate and Co-create!

Allowing the voice of many to be heard by many is alive in the lab.