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meeting announcement poster, courtesy of NancyFaget (318U)
Friday 2006-01-20 1:00~3:00 pm EST (3153)
KMWG Wiki champion Training: (318Q)
This is the continuation of the KM Working Group Meeting held (in the morning) and is held conurrently onsite at the at US Government Printing Office, and virtually with remote participants (318R)
- Remote dial-in details: (3154)
Agenda & Proceedings (315V)
- 1. First 45 minutes - Introduction and New User Orientation - SusanTurnbull and PeterYim (3162)
- number one page for newcomers is the WikiHomePage for solid background (3163)
- number two page for newcomers: http://community.cim3.net/wiki/ (3164)
- CWE for CWE users and administrators - our place to add content and help us learn together faster (3165)
- DougEngelbart pioneered groupware, hypertext and many of the seminal ideas underpinning this space - beginning ~40 years ago (3166)
- our Collaborative Work Environment (CWE) is a suite of 4 work spaces for the trusted community: (3167)
- a portal - to provide a convenient single point of entry to the environment and the work of the community - public facing facet (3168)
- a discussion forum (archived email forum) - to hold our conversations and discussions (virtually and asynchronously - not at the same time) (316A)
- enables you to focus on content of conversation and not administration (316B)
- every message becomes an html page that can be sorted by date or conversation thread (linked by replying to an earlier message) (316C)
- a wiki - to help us collaboratively compose our work (316D)
- like a web page; read and write web; one person at a time takes notes (316E)
- platform independent and people can be located anywhere in the world (316F)
- a file repository - to hold documents, work and resources that we can share, and (316G)
- 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 (316H)
- File-Sharing Workspace / Document Repository: (316I)
- in addition to linking to just the top of the page, linking is more granular -- fine-grained accessibility, linking to any paragraph or bullet point (316O)
- 2. Why do we need this? (316P)
- Mission of CIM3: improve the effectiveness of distributed collaboration for people (316Q)
- Ref: DougEngelbart - his seminal work is an inspiration for this space - particularly, his concept on OHS (OpenHyperdocumentSystem) and DKR (DynamicKnowledgeRepository) (316R)
- Tools segmentation: (316T)
- personal productivity vs. group productivity (316U)
- transaction systems vs. groupware (316V)
- thick client vs. thin client ('utility' software) (316W)
- Community segmentation: (316X)
- 3 modess of the CIM3 hosted CWE sites: 'open', 'community only' & 'secured' (318T)
- it's NOT about technology, it's all about getting work done effectively, especially when we are not in the same place (3172)
- it takes People, Process and Tools to achieve that (emphasis: People heads the list; and this is definitely not just about technology) (3173)
- To be able to wrap the right processes around tools with the right people in place to implement (3174)
- It's a participatory workspace (3175)
- it's about: (3176)
- sharing (3177)
- distributing the work (3178)
- getting things done without being in the same place, at the same time (3179)
- capturing the memory and knowledge over the entire life-cycle of the community (317A)
- have minimal structure to do work; spur innovation and emergent behavior (317B)
- perhaps appears very basic, but that's key to its expressive power and flexibility (317C)
- example of a community to look at: http://ontolog.cim3.net (317D)
- 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) (317E)
- 3. a mini wiki-tutorial: (317F)
- The top three things that make this wiki site different from an ordinary website are: (317G)
- (1) anyone who can read from the site, can also write to the site (so, it is a read-and-write web, not just read-only) (317H)
- (2) you get automatic hyperlinking, through the use of the WikiWord. (317I)
- (3) the version history of any page is available, allowing people to see how the content has evolved, and to roll back to an earlier version with a few mouse clicks. (317J)
- "create account" / "login" (near upper-right corner of the page, right below the logo/icon, any page.) (317K)
- suggested using your name in WikiWord format as your UserName, and use some password (to avoid being spoofed too easily) (317L)
- pick a page (your namesake page or SandBox would be a good start) and click on "Edit text of this page" (near the lower-left corner of the page, any page.) (317M)
- write something onto your namesake page (317N)
- 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. (317O)
- Summary box - annotates the nature of the change you made (317P)
- Text formatting rules can be found at the TextFormattingRules page. (317Q)
- take a look at the page index (317R)
- Site map index - click on the "Page Index" at the top (upper left, next to RecentChanges") of each page. (317S)
- Select "Recent Changes" at the top of each page to see which pages are changing (317T)
- also, take a look at "View other revisions" at the bottom left (317U)
- intro to PurpleNumbers (317V)
- 4. How to make comments in the wiki, including creating links (in-wiki: page & paragraph, from forum archives, from document repository, for the web) (317W)
- How to use "discussion forum" method for commenting (319Q)
- 5. Observations, Insights & advanced features (3188)
- 6. Discussion of pertinent issues: (original questions compiled by NancyFaget) (318H)
- How do we make this entryway a friendlier page? (318I)
- What is the entryway for the KM.Gov wiki? (318J)
- Can we explore usability issues? Use of white space, etc. (318K)
- How and when will we train the larger KM.Gov community? (318L)
- Are there technology issues that prevent anyone from posting? (318M)
- Can anyone post? Or is there a registration process? What kind? (318N)
- Are the champions notified of new postings? (318O)
- How shall the champions divide up responsibilities? (318P)
