What Happened Today?
http://stevenmcohen.pbwiki.com/WhatHappened
- Our wiki and blog didn't work. Why?
- Is there a need?
- ITI Blog and what makes it different
- Flickr and Technorati worked
Other wikis that work
Advantage: blog
- Easy to post information
- Chronological order
- Automatic RSS feed
- Comments can be attached to each post
- Only blog authors can edit the content of a post
- Why might the blog work? Because it gives non-bloggers a place to post thoughts and it could be easy to audioblog.
- Why might the blog not work? Because bloggers already have a place to blog, and non-bloggers don’t want to blog.
Advantage: wiki
- Anyone anywhere can contribute
- True equalized collaboration (when accounts aren’t required)
- Can create any order/flow to the information (sometimes chronological order doesn’t work well for the type of content)
- Why might the wiki work? Because anyone at the conference or offsite could add content.
- Why might the wiki not work? Because no one is sure what to put there (versus somewhere else) and wikis are still a little difficult to use (see Meredith Farkas’ advice?). Plus, they need a password to edit it, which might be too much of a barrier at this point.
- Personally, I think the tool that ended up working the best in this situation was Technorati. It was the one spot everything was pulled together.
Advantage: Technorati (view the IL05 tag)
- Automatically brought together all pieces that were posted anywhere (as long as they were tagged and the sites pinged Technorati)
- Made it easy to find things; one-stop shopping
I would also argue that we’ve had a lot of fun and socialness with Flickr. Of course, you had to know about Flickr, have an account, and know what you could do. I wish we could have done a whole session just on Flickr. :-P
Advantage: Flickr (view IL05 photostream)