ISYS2441 Information and Knowledge Environments 2

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Featured Wiki: TechMaker

Kim Grady started the TechMaker wiki in July, 2009.

1. Briefly describe your group, your wiki, and what you use it to do:

We are a group of scientific, industry, and education professionals who are seeking to overcome barriers to bringing new technology to market. Our project is one of many under the Workforce Innovation in Regional Economic Development (WIRED) initiative of the Department of Labor. We used tech transfer concepts to develop the wiki's organization and framework, and wiki templates to pre-populate pages with standard reoccurring content that guides pedagogy specific to our audiences. We initially gathered about 200 existing resources in the wiki, cataloged them, and then began shaping them for classroom/training room delivery. Educators are participating in pilot programs to use the wiki delivered content in their existing business and technology courses. Specific entrepreneur groups are starting to add their blog content to the wiki for development of new curriculum and ideas. The wiki format allows us to bring together dynamic curriculum and processes for teaching tech transfer concepts.

2. Besides the Edit button, which wiki feature is your favorite?

The tag cloud because it affords a great way to manage and navigate the content, the tags were developed from the mapped tech transfer concepts, the concepts are kind of the backbone of the wiki delivered content and its organization.

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Even though I've been working with Wikispaces for three years now — and was into wikis and collaborative technology before that — wikis continue to surprise me with their wonderful "Aha" moments.

My most recent one came when my fiancé and I decided to plan our wedding on a wiki. We used our wiki for everything — researching and linking to vendors, embedding a spreadsheet with our guest list, and editing the text for our invitations and programs.

My "Aha" moment came one Saturday when my fiancé and I sat down to a to-do list that seemed longer than the number of hours available — contact officiant, send in text for invitations, etc., etc. But, to our delight, we breezed through the list.

The beauty of the wiki was in its ability to store all the tiny details involved in planning a wedding. We didn't have to search around for small pieces of paper or email threads and we didn't have to redo lost work. The wiki was so easy to edit that if we thought of something while on the run, we could edit it, quickly add a note, and come back to it later. If we were traveling and needed to do something related to the wedding, all our information was there waiting for us. And as the wedding day approached, the wiki made delegation a cinch. We just invited people to the wiki and they instantly had access to all the information about the day.

The wiki simplified our lives a lot and made the whole process of wedding planning a lot of fun. If I ever need to plan a large event again, I'm definitely going with a wiki.

Sarah

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Good Idea: Set up a wiki to plan your family reunion.

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Outline for my communication channel Analysis: Notes on my Library Marketing Blog

Worth: 30% (comprising Written Report – 90%; Oral Presentation – 10% < spent an hour doing this. = work 3Marks of overall grade.)

Objective: To monitor a communication, the M Word http://themword.blogspot.com and report on the activity that has taken place over the semester

The Oral Presentation: Copy of the presentation is available at... https://prezi.com/secure/07c5cfad3c51b7198a186063032bf81e3a9a09da/


Reminiscing About My Presentation: 

  • Demonstrate reading throughout the task, update the graph with the section.  In reality, only about 400 posts, pretty easy to skim through the content topics and read the ones i was interested.  The video embed slowed down so skipped these ones.  Highlighted the donkey on in my presentation I was able to guess the purpose of this content in the overall 
  • Note on the process, 1 abandoned blog, 2nd abandoned blog, 3rd distracted to create my own communication channel.
  • 2nd one abandoned as more about promoting the book (eg book signings etc), felt it was a bit boring.
  • The purpose of this blog was to promote their speaking events, the book was 2ndary.
  • Book was not written until midway through the blog, so i think that they realised that there is probably a market for the this type of book as they went through.
  • Can this idea be adapted to Australia.
  • My presentation looked at marketing topics:
  • facility design
  • industry occurrences (library closures in america)
  • conference
  • new resources < proquest...didn't realise they
  • Ideas, priority queues
  • Impressed at applied knowledge, buzz around social media, also implications of this, how to use sm in business card design, handle the comments on blogs, not an issue on everyone else's in the class' blog mind you.
  • Not giving my professional marketing advice, reviewed the contents of each of these links, that tasks could be part of a much larger project.
  • Good intro into the business of libraries, justifying its existence etc.  Have been craving for some of these kinds of tools.
    • References:
    Title The accidental library marketer
    Author Kathy Dempsey
    Edition illustrated
    Publisher Information Today, 2009
    ISBN1573873683, 9781573873680
    Length 294 pages

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    Notes on yesterday's individual presentations )

    Yesterday we had a privacy lecture.  It touched on Sonar CRM http://www.trampolinesystems.com/products/sonar-crm

    Individual information sources that people covered was:
    Hope those links all worked :)

    #ISYS2441 Group Wiki Assignment < Individual Reflection

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    Wiki assignment individual reflection.pdf (320 KB)
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    Hi Peter,

    I hope you had a good trip back, I just heard Alberto Contador just got done with drugs in this years tour.  Now that's a big story (petty it is coming out in the media this weekend though)

    Attached is my individual reflection, I hope it makes sense (too many hours in front of the pc today I am afraid)

    Catch you later

    Copy of the report | Feedback

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    Here is a copy of the report for you.  I have checked the permissions and you have access for both your @student.rmit.edu.au and @yahoo.com accounts.

    The version download is at 8:25 am, I'm not sure if the others will be working . 

    I understand you preference to have it emailed around, having worked with you last semester.  Perhaps you could add your personal comment to the feedback section of the wikispaces site under google docs section?

    I think for this "older style / traditional email a document around methodology" to work, it requires:
    • group members willing to loose the flexibility of been able able to manage their own workload and add to the master document when it suits them
    • group members willing to forfeit the ability to see everyones work and the collective momentum on the project
    • group willing to forfeit some efficiency (ie having to wait for others to do their bit before you can move on).  This could be overcome by someone leading stronger and establishing the work requirements and map out a project plan much earlier
    • additional skill level of been able to manage document version in their email inbox (happy for you to share your secrets here)
    • willingness to have more stress across the group???
    I was just thinking to myself yesterday with how well this whole process had gone, and we we had as a collective been able to achieve.

    The purpose of this email is really to document some of the issues that I can see from my end.  With that said I think the situation is further complicated by the fact that we are not given the google suite (docs, email calender) by RMIT for our @student.rmit.edu.au accounts (see http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/edu/index.html).  I think if we were using this in an official capacity, it would make a difference, by using it a little more and not having to learn 2 systems of working (ie the MS office way and the google docs way.

    With that said, I'm not ot saying that google solution is perfect, I got caught out in another subject as google docs doesn't support page numbers.  On the plus side another massive win for me is the autosave, no lost work, in itself this allows for much less loss of work days over the source of a degree.

    Perhaps a work around for you is to download local copies from google docs to have your own local word version.   You'll need to think about you will reintegrate your changes with the 'master' version.  This approach will also require someone willing to put their hand up with the collate and edit job (which can end up as double the work) at the end.  

    Not sure how to resolve all this, worth having the discussion, I would love to hear your perspectives....

    Cam

    On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 5:26 AM, <snip> wrote:
    Guys

    I can't find the report on the Google docs - went through it all but only saw guidelines for the assignment and Camerons postings. Have no idea why this is, which is why I prefer it to be emailed around than use Google Docs. In anycase, can one of you do the proof reading for this? Then please email me a copy of the report. If I have a copy and there's time, I'll proof read whatever I can.

    Thanks!

    -----Original Message-----
    Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 10:16:49 +1000
    Subject: NO ACTION REQUIRED - Wiki Pages renamed

    Hi everyone,

    I have updated these page names.

    Cameron

    On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 5:25 PM, Cameron Stewart wrote:

    > THE WIKI
    > ORDER SHOULD BE: & PAGES RENAMED
    >
    >    1. Week1. Delicious <http://../Information+Sharing+with+Delicious>
    >    2. Week2. Twitter <http://../Social+Networking+Approaches+with+Twitter>
    >    3. Week3. Google Docs <http://Collaborating+With+Google+Docs>
    >    4. Week 4. Stixy<http://../Collaborating+through+Online+Bulletin+Boards+with+Stixy>
    >    5. Week 5. Evernote <http://Information+Sharing+with+Evernote>
    >
    > LOGO PLACEMENT:
    > Ok where is, delete blank lines underneath.
    >
    > 6TH MODULE:
    > Dont worry about, wiki not worth any marks.  Update homepage to reflect
    > only five.
    >
    > LARGE INLINE IMAGES:
    > Look fine.  Group consensus is to leave as is.
    >
    > WELLDONE!
    > Pretty much done, need to focus writing the report.
    >
    > PRESENTATION:
    > Final tidy up, remove extra dot points, heading consistency.  1 person to
    > do, Cam volunteers for this one (small job, maybe 1 hour max.)
    >
    > REPORT
    >
    > SOURCING MORE ARTICLES:
    > 9 Articles Down, <snip> will find 1 more.
    > We have added all the literature reviews into the google doc.
    > There is a bit of a job here to reduce that down to a more manageable
    > size.  Need to get it down to 1000 words ish.
    >
    > TO DOs -
    > * Marked up and coloured in google document.
    >
    > Cheers
    >
    > Cam
    >
    >
    >
    >
    >
    >
    > On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Cameron Stewart  wrote:
    >
    >> I've been through and pulled out the main outstanding points from the
    >> wiki.
    >>
    >>    - Logo placement
    >>    - Order of training modules.
    >>    - 6th module?
    >>    - Treatment of large inline images (eg stixy)
    >>    - Consistency of link presentation (eg Anchors on evernote page /
    >>    bigger display of H3 sites.)
    >>    -
    >>
    >> Articles:
    >>
    >>    - Not yet 10.
    >>
    >>
    >>