Failing Enterprise Blog 2004-11

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The Admin talks about our online community

Saturday, November 6th, 2004

Wikipedia is the free, collaborative Internet encyclopedia.  Anyone can contribute and edit pages.  It sounds like it wouldn't work, but with the efforts of over 100,000 contributors and a strong sense of community, it's a smashing success.  This sort of collaborative, we're-here-to-help-each-other-out sensibility is also part of the inspiration for Failing Enterprise.  In the spirit of linking two of the world's great online communities (tee hee hee), I've created the initial Wikipedia page on Enterprise Rent-A-Car.

Wikipedia places great emphasis on writing with a neutral point of view, and I'm confident I followed the guidelines.  I did, of course, mention Failing Enterprise, much in the same way Newsweek did in a recent article about Enterprise.  I encourage others to update and improve the Wikipedia page going forward.  You can always look at a list of the page's recent changes.

I've also changed the format of the Enterprise Customer Rental Checklist.  Posting a Microsoft Word document on the web is generally considered bad manners, especially now that it's easy to read files created in the Adobe Acrobat format.  I've started using Win2PDF from Dane Prairie Systems LLC.  It's inexpensive and it creates a new "printer" to print to.  The output is a PDF file.

With this nifty new tool, I've converted the checklist to PDF format.

Lastly, I've posted a link on the home page to the Missouri Secretary of State web page showing some information about the Enterprise Rent-A-Car.  There's a link to images of documents filed with the Secretary of State.

More on Enterprise car rental at the Failing Enterprise home page.