Date / Time: Conference Call Friday 2005-03-11 10:30 am ~ 12:00 noon EST (2OOD)
Call Details: (2OOE)
- Your entry will be toned-in; please announce yourself (2OOH)
- Attendees: (2OOI)
- Invited / Expecting: (2OOJ)
- Regrets: (2OON)
Agenda Ideas and Suggestions (2OOO)
- Newcomers' orientation for first 45 min. (2OOP)
- If you've already been introduced to the space, join us at 11:15 am when we discuss how to comment in the wiki, including creating links (in-wiki: page & paragraph, from forum archives, from document repository, for the web) (2OOQ)
- people with specific tasks they need done on the CWE are encouraged to bring them to the second half of Friday's session -- we can discuss how best to accomplish these tasks. (2OOR)
Agenda & Proceedings (2OOS)
- 1. First 45 minutes - Introduction and New User Orientation - SusanTurnbull and PeterYim ("=ppy") (2OOT)
- number one page for newcomers is the WikiHomePage for solid background (2OOU)
- number two page for newcomers: http://community.cim3.net/wiki/ (2OOV)
- CWE for CWE users and administrators - our place to add content and help us learn together faster (2OOW)
- (2P30)
- Suite of 4 major work spaces: (2OOX)
- DougEngelbart pioneered groupware, hypertext and many of the seminal ideas underpinning this space - beginning ~40 years ago (2OOY)
- a discussion forum (archived email forum) - to hold our conversations and discussions (virtually and asynchronously - not at the same time) (2OOZ)
- a wiki - to help us collaboratively compose our work (2OP2)
- a file repository - to hold documents, work and resources that we can share, and (2OP5)
- like your file space, but remote. Requires one time set-up. Any content is accessible by a browser and the content can be referenced and you can point your audience directly to the link of interest (2OP6)
- File-Sharing Workspace / Document Repository: (2OP7)
- http://colab.cim3.net/file/resource/ (2OP8)
- http://colab.cim3.net/file/work/ (2OP9)
- http://colab.cim3.net/file/community/ (community member password required to access) (2OPA)
- http://colab.cim3.net/file/admin/ (administrator password required to access) (2OPB)
- To access the File Workspace - refer to: http://community.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?FileWorkspaceAccess (2OPC)
- in addition to linking to just the top of the page, linking is more granular (fine-grained accessibility, linking to any bullet point (2OPD)
- a portal - to provide a convenient single point of entry to the environment and the work of the community - public facing facet (2OPE)
- first place people go to: http://colab.cim3.net (2OPF)
- 2. Why do we need this? (2OPG)
- Mission of Company: improve the effectiveness of distributed collaboration for people (2OPH)
- See DougEngelbart - his seminal work is an inspiration for this space (2OPI)
- Tools segmentation: (2ORJ)
- Community segmentation: (2ORN)
- Affinity networks (2ORO)
- Learning communities (2ORP)
- Communities of Practice (see: CommunitiesofPractice) (2ORQ)
- Project teams (2ORR)
- it's all about getting work done effectively, especially when we are not in the same place (2OPJ)
- it takes People, Process and Tools to achieve that (emphasis: People heads the list; and this is definitely not just about technology) (2OPK)
- To be able to wrap the right processes around tools with the right people in place to implement (2OR8)
- It's a participatory workspace (2OPL)
- it's about: (2OPM)
- sharing (2OPN)
- distributing the work (2OPO)
- getting things done without being in the same place, at the same time (2OPP)
- capturing the memory over the entire life-cycle of the community (2OPQ)
- have minimal structure to do work; spur innovation and emergent behavior (2OPR)
- perhaps appears very basic, but that's key to its expressive power and flexibility (2OPS)
- (2P31)
- example of a community to look at: http://ontolog.cim3.net (2OPT)
- testbed global community over the past 3 yr. - over 100 members from 13 countries - you're welcome to visit (join us too if you're interested in ontologies) (2OPU)
- example of a community to look at: http://ontolog.cim3.net (2OPT)
- 3. a mini wiki-tutorial: (2OPV)
- The top two things that makes this wiki site different from an ordinary website are: (2OPW)
- write something onto your namesake page (2OPY)
- click "save" or "preview" - Preview enables you to see what your page will look like on the web after saving - while simultaneously showing the edit box. Its helpful to see how the text formatting rules are rendered on the web by looking at both windows. (2ORC)
- Text formatting rules can be found at the TextFormattingRules page. (2OPZ)
- take a look at the page index (via search) (2OQ0)
- Site map index - place cursor in search box and hit enter (with a _blank_ search term) (2OQ1)
- intro to PurpleNumbers (2LRX)
- Select "Recent Changes" at the top of each page to see which pages are changing (2OQ2)
- 4. How to make comments in the wiki, including creating links (in-wiki: page & paragraph, from forum archives, from document repository, for the web) (2OQ5)
- How to use "in-line" method for succinct commenting within a small group (2OQ6)
- edit by putting your suggested change in parentheses under the relevant section followed by your wiki name and date - e.g. (Suggest revising this definition...--SusanTurnbull / 2005.02.09 12:30pm EST) (2OQ7)
- How to use "forum" method for commenting on the DataReferenceModel_09_2004 (2OQ8)
- large document, large number of contributors representing all interested parties and anticipate contributions that may include large "amounts or chunks of pages") (2OQ9)
- use purplenumber method to anchor your comments to the relevant paragraph (2OQA)
- Right click on the purplenumber following the section identified for comment, like the "2OQB" at the end of this line (2OQB)
- Select copy shortcut (2OQC)
- Paste into your email message with subject line - Comments (2OQD)
- Follow the examples of comments provided below; purplenumber is pasted in after ref: (for reference) (2OQE)
- Add your name, date and time in parentheses (2OQF)
- Send your message to the public site at: drm-public@colab.cim3.net (2OQG)
- How to use "in-line" method for succinct commenting within a small group (2OQ6)
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- ref: http://colab.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?SandBox#nid7VT (2OQK)
- suggest changing from: "You can insert a graphic image too:" (2OQL)
- changing it to read "You can insert a graphic image (jpg, gif and png formats) too:" (2OQM)
- (--SusanTurnbull / 2005.02.09 12:30pm EST) (2OQN)
- ref: http://colab.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?SandBox#nid7VW (2OQO)
- Comments: This is a very important section. (--SusanTurnbull / 2005.02.09 12:45pm EST) (2OQP)
Comments received from the public forum (drm-public@colab.cim3.net) will be added to the bottom of the relevant page with the corresponding "purple number" link. (2OQQ)
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- 5. Observations and Insights from the Week - All (2OQS)
- (2P36)
- the new search box at http://colab.cim3.net/ (2OQV)
- (2P38)
- example: sharing knowledge as a community - see file workspace access issue as posted to: http://community.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?FileWorkspaceAccessIssues#nidAC4 (2OQT)
- (2P39)
- coming soon ... a new face for the wiki: see: http://test.cim3.net/wiki/ (2OQX)
- (password needed for access: to be provided during the tutorial) (2OQY)
- coming soon ... a new face for the wiki: see: http://test.cim3.net/wiki/ (2OQX)
- 6. Date/ Time of next call: Friday, March, 18, 2005, 10:30 am ~ 12:00 noon EST (2OQU)