Sunday, May 18, 2008

Thing 17: le Sandbox

I was on a workgroup who used PBWiki, and it was just great for sharing minutes, tasks, and discussions of common readings. With that kind of power to do group edits on content, PBWiki makes lots of online task-achievement possible with a lot less meeting time in person. It is incredibly useful - it becomes more critical to have broad online access for staff, but makes for a lot of savings on gas and travel time as bodies of a workgroup travel to a physical location. Also, the resulting work is there for all to see - less time going back trying to remember where work left off or what decision was made.

I think there is a lot of content on OceanNet that would work well in a PBWiki setting. For instance, I happen to be working a Sunday while considering this challege. A PBWiki would be a great way to share things like computer logins, building issues, etc. - info that can change periodically but needs to be in a central place that can be updated immediately for staff to reference.

PBWikis might also be nice environments for weeding projects. If staff in one location weeds an area and discards titles that are outdated and have been updated, or are outdated and inaccurate, they could post those titles to a PBWiki so other locations could look for the same titles - system weeding made faster and more consistent!

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