http://www.jainnet.com/knowledgeeldorado/ Collaboration, Communities, Peer-to-Peer, Networks, Knowledge Management en-us 2003-07-31T19:41:38+05:00 2003-08-29T03:28:26+05:00 Setting the Stage for Building Usable Information Sites What Are Personas? - Personas are hypothetical archetypes, or "stand-ins" for actual users that drive the decision making for interface design projects. - Personas are not real people, but they represent real people throughout the design process. - Personas are not "made up"; they are discovered as a by-product of the investigative process. - Although personas are imaginary, they are defined with significant rigor and precision. - Names and personal details are made up for personas to make them more realistic. - Personas are defined by their goals. - Interfaces are built... http://www.jainnet.com/knowledgeeldorado/archives/2003/07/31/index.html#personas OpenGroupware.org provides document sharing capabilities for OpenOffice.org documents that will allow users of Microsoft Outlook, Ximian Evolution, Mozilla Calendar, OpenOffice.org's Glow (its Groupware Project's client product), Apple's iCal and other standards-based groupware clients to collaborate. The software will allow users to share calendar, address book and email information, communicate through instant messaging, share folders, exchange documents, track changes, share a whiteboard, and browse the Web -- all at the same time. "Just to be perfectly clear, this is an MS Exchange replacement," said Gary Federick, leader of the OpenOffice.org Groupware Project. "OGo is important because it's the missing link in... http://www.jainnet.com/knowledgeeldorado/archives/2003/07/11/index.html#opengroupware Arnold makes a very important point in The Centrifuge Moves You. By tracing the origin of PCs to Xerox his argument that PCs are Documents-centric becomes more believable. I agree with him that the right way to make sense of this revolution is to get a transaction-centric focus. The personal computer was designed by researchers at Xerox, and its evolution was driven by document production. Word processing, spreadsheets, and graphics software were designed primarily to produce documents, particularly for business meetings and presentations. The "paperless office" turned out to be a cruel joke. In the world of mobile computing and... http://www.jainnet.com/knowledgeeldorado/archives/2003/06/26/index.html#transactions_vs_documents This long article takes a good look at using Communities of Practice to facilitate knowledge sharing between organizations. It concludes that trust remains a road-block but CoP offer an informal mechanism for collaboration between organizations, particularly when learning is the prime motivation. Heard it from: OLDaily... http://www.jainnet.com/knowledgeeldorado/archives/2003/06/26/index.html#interorganizational_communities_of_practice Identity Commons is a chaordic (self forming) organization which hopes to help make sure ALL identity standards are correct. To create the world's premier electronic system for individuals and organization to interact commercially, socially and personally, while providing every entity with control of its information, identity, and relationships consistent with healthy communities.... http://www.jainnet.com/knowledgeeldorado/archives/2003/06/25/index.html#identity_commons James Robertson has written an introduction to Web CMS. Worth reading if you are new to Content Management Systems.... http://www.jainnet.com/knowledgeeldorado/archives/2003/06/05/index.html#so_what_is_a_content_management_system This mail in the cms-list in reply to a user's requirements is a good Q&A type feature list of Zope/Plone. The combination Zope/Plone/Epoz can provide a lot of your requirments. See: - http://www.zope.org/ - http://www.plone.org/ - http://www.zope.org/Members/mjablonski/Epoz/Epoz0.2.2 > * Low in Cost All open source softaware > * User Administration Zope can manage users and roles. Plone 1.1 (scheduled for May/June), will have group-support (using GRUF). Zope/Plone has workflow support. > * No or minimal technical skills to publish Zope/Plone is quite easy to use. Using Epoz WYSIWYG users don't have to know HTML. > * WYSIWYG Editor for End... http://www.jainnet.com/knowledgeeldorado/archives/2003/06/02/index.html#zopeplone CommKit is next generation Social Software. It blends the Web, Email and Database technology into a sophisticated package that enables non technical people to build and run effective and scalable solutions involving groups of hundreds to tens of thousands of people. List servers, Web Boards, Bulletin Boards, Conferences and ChatRooms do not make for effective communities. They are OK for communities where only a few hundred people are actively involved, but tend to break down if traffic is too high. Chatrooms - good for a few people to arrange an online meeting. Not good for tens or hundreds to try... http://www.jainnet.com/knowledgeeldorado/archives/2003/05/30/index.html#commkit David Weinberger on why he thinks that CMS is inherently complex, refuting a remark made by Dave Winer at the OSCOM: CMS Users Panel. They're not looking for a desktop application like word processing. To them, CMS is a system, and it does something complex that will only get more complex. It manages documents and document fragments. It provides versioning. It handles permissions. It moves stuff through workflows. It worries about archiving and records management. It automatically lays out pages. It provides editing tools for content and for styles. It serves up personalized pages. It tracks hits. It enables cash... http://www.jainnet.com/knowledgeeldorado/archives/2003/05/30/index.html#cms_tough_and_complex This report describes what open source communities are and how they work. In particular, it addresses the following questions: What is the open source landscape as a whole? How many projects exist, what kinds of software do these projects develop, and how many people are involved with these projects? What are the demographics of those who participate in these communities? Why do they join, and how long do they stay? How do they interact with each other? How do open source communities work? What are the patterns of collaboration within successful open source communities? It identifies some patterns of collaboration... http://www.jainnet.com/knowledgeeldorado/archives/2003/05/23/index.html#introduction_to_open_source_communities