Friday 2006-09-15 10:00~11:00 am EDT (38RV)
- Remote dial-in details: (38RW)
- Call-in Number: 800-857-9370 (38WJ)
Agenda & Proceedings (38SP)
- 1. A Brief "Walking" Tour of the Collaborative Work Environment and How it is used by GSA's Intergovernmental Solutions Division (ISD)- Susan Turnbull (38VG)
- 2. Introduction to CWE and New User Orientation - SusanTurnbull and PeterYim (38SW)
- number one page for newcomers is the WikiHomePage for solid background (38SX)
- number two page for newcomers: http://community.cim3.net/wiki/ (38SY)
- DougEngelbart invented the mouse and pioneered personal computing, hypertext, network computing, groupware, and many of his seminal ideas underpinning this collaborative community workspace - beginning ~40 years ago (38T1)
- our Collaborative Work Environment (CWE) is a suite of 4 work spaces for the trusted community: (38T2)
- a portal - to provide a convenient single point of entry to the environment and the work of the community - public facing facet (38T3)
- a wiki - to help us collaboratively compose our work (38T9)
- like a web page; read and write web; one person at a time takes notes (38TA)
- platform independent and people can be located anywhere in the world (38TB)
- a discussion forum (archived email forum) - to hold our conversations and discussions (virtually and asynchronously - not at the same time) (38T6)
- enables you to focus on content of conversation and not administration (38T7)
- every message becomes an html page that can be sorted by date or conversation thread (linked by replying to an earlier message) (38T8)
- see Forum archives at - http://colab.cim3.net/forum/ (38XD)
- a file repository - to hold documents, work and resources that we can share, and (38TC)
- 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 (38TD)
- File-Sharing Workspace / Document Repository: (38TE)
- in addition, (38XE)
- Full-text Search capability is available to all content within the collaborative work environment, and (38XF)
- rather than just being able to point to the top of a page, Fine-Grained Accessibility through the use of PurpleNumbers is featured, allowing users to link to a particular paragraph or bullet point in a document. (38TK)
- 3. Why do we need this? (38TL)
- Mission of Intergovernmental Solutions Division: improve the delivery of government services to citizens by fostering a collaborative environment among federal, state, local and foreign governments and intergovernmental organizations. (38W7)
- Mission of CIM3: improve the effectiveness of distributed collaboration for people (38TM)
- Ref: DougEngelbart - his seminal work is an inspiration for this space - particularly, his concept on OHS (OpenHyperdocumentSystem) and DKR (DynamicKnowledgeRepository) (38TN)
- Tools segmentation: (38TP)
- personal productivity vs. group productivity (38TQ)
- transaction systems vs. groupware (38TR)
- thick client vs. thin client ('utility' software) (38TS)
- Community segmentation: (38TT)
- 3 modes of the CIM3 hosted CWE sites: 'open', 'community only' & 'secured' (38TY)
- it's NOT about technology, it's all about getting work done effectively, especially when we are not in the same place (38TZ)
- it takes People, Process and Tools to achieve that (emphasis: People heads the list; and this is definitely not just about technology) (38U0)
- To be able to wrap the right processes around tools with the right people in place to implement (38U1)
- It's a participatory workspace (38U2)
- it's about: (38U3)
- sharing (38U4)
- distributing the work (38U5)
- getting things done without being in the same place, at the same time (38U6)
- capturing the memory and knowledge over the entire life-cycle of the community (38U7)
- have minimal structure to do work; spur innovation and emergent behavior (38U8)
- perhaps appears very basic, but that's key to its expressive power and flexibility (38U9)
- example of a community to look at: http://ontolog.cim3.net (38UA)
- testbed global community, in operation for over 4 yr., ~200 members from 20 countries - you're welcome to visit (join us too if you're interested in ontologies) (38UB)
- 4. a mini wiki-tutorial: (38UC)
- The top four things that make this wiki site different from an ordinary website are: (38UD)
- (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) (38UE)
- (2) you get automatic hyperlinking, through the use of the WikiWord. (38UF)
- (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. (38UG)
- (4) wiki's have traditionally been associated with 'openness' -- open content, open technology, open knowledge ... where community collaboration has been regarded as a core value. (38UH)
- "create account" / "login" (near upper-right corner of the page, right below the logo/icon, any page.) (38UI)
- suggested using your name in WikiWord format as your UserName, and use some password (to avoid being spoofed too easily) (38UJ)
- 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.) (38UK)
- write something onto your namesake page (38UL)
- 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. (38UM)
- Summary box - annotates the nature of the change you made (38UN)
- Text formatting rules can be found at the TextFormattingRules page. (38UO)
- take a look at the page index (38UP)
- Site map index - click on the "Page Index" at the top (upper left, next to RecentChanges") of each page. (38UQ)
- Select "Recent Changes" at the top of each page to see which pages are changing (38UR)
- also, take a look at "View other revisions" at the bottom left (38US)
- intro to PurpleNumbers (38UT)
- 5. How to make comments in the wiki, including creating links (in-wiki: page & paragraph, from forum archives, from document repository, for the web) (38UU)
- How to use "discussion forum" method for commenting (38UV)
- How to use "in-line" method for commenting (38UZ)
- used to put annotated edits with name and date directly into the wiki document that is being developed within a small group (38V0)
- 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) (38V1)
- 6. Observations, Insights & advanced features (38V2)
- 7. Q & A and Discussion. (38VE)
- 8. Additional Resources (38WA)
