General Business

This is a starting point for the General Business section.

Here’s what you need to know to add your own topic to this Wiki.

1) Look at the URL for this page

http://www.opensourceentrepreneur.com/doku.php/general_business:start

The key parts are at the end: general_business:start

general_business is what a Wiki calls a namespace. I think of it as a category. start is the page name i.e. this page is called “Start”

2) To add your own topic, browse to the right category and look for this “Start” page. If your topic doesn’t fit in one of the existing categories (it should) see step (3) below.

Then look at the web address in your browser, replace “start” with the name of your page and hit enter. Try and pick something descriptive e.g. “Managing Employees” or “Problem Employees”. Also, it’s best to avoid spaces in your name, so use underscores “_” or make it all one word with capitals: Managing_Employees or ManagingEmployees.

Using the previous example, the web address would be:

http://www.opensourceentrepreneur.com/doku.php/general_business:ManagingEmployees

You will see a message saying that the topic does not exist. Click the “Create this Page” button and away you go.

3) If your subject category doesn’t exist, you can create it the same way. You just change general_business in the web address to whatever category you need. Please try to put your topic in an existing category so things don’t get hard to find!

You can also create sub-categories. Just add a “:” and the subcategory e.g. general_business:phoneSystems:myNewTopic would create a sub-category of PhoneSystems and a new document called myNewTopic.