I work for Atlassian. We are a for-profit business that produces a number of tools, including Confluence, an enterprise wiki that helps organizations to collaborate. This year, a number of Atlassians decided to volunteer at Earth Hour, a non-profit based in Sydney that is raising the world's awareness of climate change, by reconfiguring the Earth Hour wiki. Out of this work came four lessons that can be generalized for other non-profits that use a wiki to help coordinate massive campaigns like the kind Earth Hour is running (they're aiming to have more than 1 billion people in 1,000 countries shut off their lights for 1 hour on March 28).

Hi all,

Looking forward to participating in the event. I'm in the San Francisco office of Atlassian Software Systems, a small Australian company that builds an enterprise wiki called Confluence. Our application is free for non-profits and we've given out hundreds of non-profit licenses to many different types of organisations. Mostly, these folks are using our wiki for internal collaboration and knowledge management. Hoping to share some ideas and learn loads from everyone at the conference. - Jon