Tuesday, November 16, 2004
Example of a Collaboration Blog
Christina Pikas, Garrett Eastman, Kris Liberman, and Jessica Baumgart have been using this neat group blog on Knowledge Management to prepare for their presentation "Blogs for Information Dissemination and Knowledge Management" at the ASIST Annual Meeting.
Certainly one of the great advantages of a weblog approach over e-mail when collaborating with several geographically dispersed individuals is that all the communication resides in one central repository. As one of the posts on this blog mentions, however, keeping track of threads of ideas (at least within Blogger) is not trivial.
Radio.Userland allows you to keep track of messages by classifying/cataloging the posts into user-defined categories, which will help for blogs covering a wide range of topics. However, how well will such a system work when a blog deals only with a specific type of issue in population genetics?
Tobin Cataldo plans to discuss the creation of blogs from scratch as part of his presentation. This involves setting up your own web server, creating a database and using some PHP scripts to facilitate communication. According to Tobin, you don't have to be a super-tech to do this, and building from scratch will give you the ultimate flexibility in the organization and appearance of your weblog.
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Certainly one of the great advantages of a weblog approach over e-mail when collaborating with several geographically dispersed individuals is that all the communication resides in one central repository. As one of the posts on this blog mentions, however, keeping track of threads of ideas (at least within Blogger) is not trivial.
Radio.Userland allows you to keep track of messages by classifying/cataloging the posts into user-defined categories, which will help for blogs covering a wide range of topics. However, how well will such a system work when a blog deals only with a specific type of issue in population genetics?
Tobin Cataldo plans to discuss the creation of blogs from scratch as part of his presentation. This involves setting up your own web server, creating a database and using some PHP scripts to facilitate communication. According to Tobin, you don't have to be a super-tech to do this, and building from scratch will give you the ultimate flexibility in the organization and appearance of your weblog.
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