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Community-based Interactive Tools

Community-based Interactive Tools. Alison Connor Elizabeth Koerber Carrie Snesko. Project 6 - Assignment. Develop an IORP for presenting community-based interactive communication and information-sharing interactive tools on the DiscoverET.org website.

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Community-based Interactive Tools

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  1. Community-based Interactive Tools Alison Connor Elizabeth Koerber Carrie Snesko

  2. Project 6 - Assignment • Develop an IORP for presenting community-based interactive communication and information-sharing interactive tools on the DiscoverET.org website. • Perform a Case-study of the existing interactive communication and information-sharing tools used on the DiscoverET.org website. • Suggest forms of emerging tools that should be incorporated in the future. • Provide examples of websites using the various community-based interactive communication and information-sharing tools and evaluate the forms of interaction taking place via the different tools in the different settings. • Present the pros and cons based upon your analysis while you make recommendations for the DiscoverET.org website.

  3. Relationship to 520 Coursework • Information System Development • “An interconnected set of information resources under the same direct management control that shares common functionality. Includes hardware, software, information, data, applications, communications, and people.” • Develop structure/framework • Unite the various interactive tools • Interface between the system and people • User-centered design

  4. Relationship to 520, continued • Subject-Access/Cross-Referencing • Determining “aboutness” • Organizing topics in a meaningful way that allows users to easily access their desired information • Classification of Topics • Establishing a hierarchical and associative structure

  5. Philosophical Basis – The “Public Sphere” (Jurgen Habermas) • Presents communication opportunities in a broad sense, where people can interact • Allows people to enter “spaces” without undue hindrance (i.e., race, ethnicity, economic status); spaces are visible; discussions are open • Mediates between people and institutions, between the powerless and powerful

  6. Community Networks • “…free online environment[s] designed to promote and favor communication, cooperation, and the exchange of services among citizens and all the public and private members of a local community (nonprofit organization, government institutions, and companies)…”(Shaping the Network Society, p. 199)

  7. Interactive Tools • Wikis • Blogs • Listservs/Emails • Interactive Calendars • Discussion Boards

  8. Wikis • A wiki is a group of Web pages that allows users to add content, as on an internet forum, but also permits others (often completely unrestricted) to edit the content. The term wiki also refers to the collaborative software (wiki engine) used to create such a website. • Wikis are a true hypertext medium, with non-linear navigational structures. Each page typically contains a large number of links to other pages. Hierarchical navigation pages often exist in larger wikis, often a consequence of the original page creation process, but they do not have to be used.

  9. Blogs • Abbreviated form of “weblog” • A blog is a website for which an individual or a group generates text, photographs, video, audio files, and/or links, typically but not always on a daily or otherwise regular basis.

  10. Listservs/Emails • Electronic mailing lists are a special usage of email that allows for widespread distribution of information to many internet users. Software is installed on a server which processes incoming email messages, and, depending on their content, either acts on them internally or distributes the message to all users subscribed to the mailing list. • Today, mailing lists are most often used for collaboration on various projects and as a way of distributing current news and other such information. • Sometimes these take the form of what is termed a "discussion list": a subscriber uses the mailing list to send messages to all the other subscribers, who may answer in similar fashion. Thus actual discussion and information exchanges can happen. Mailing lists of this type are usually topic-oriented

  11. Interactive Calendars • While interactive calendars vary widely in format, they all provide an opportunity for users to enter and view upcoming events.

  12. Discussion Boards • A discussion board is a general term for any online "bulletin board" where you can leave and expect to see responses to messages you have left.

  13. DiscoverET.org Case Study

  14. Existing DiscoverET.org Resources • Calendar • Blog Links • Discussion Group Links • Mailing Lists

  15. DiscoverET.org Calendar

  16. DiscoverET.org Calendar • Begins on current day • Lists events chronologically • Each event has a title and short description • “Details” link • Search Features • Date, county, organization, list of categories • Keyword search • Add an Event / Submit an Event • Help Features

  17. DiscoverET.org Blogs

  18. DiscoverET.org Blogs • Rocky Top Brigade • Blog Station • Brian’s Blog • Camp4u • Instapundit.com • Keep Knoxville Beautiful • We’re Screwed

  19. DiscoverET.org Discussion Groups

  20. DiscoverET.org Discussion Groups • Open Discussion for the Town of Jellico, TN • Digital Divide Discussion Group • Civil Liberties Alliance • K2k • Knoxnet • knoxville Based Yahoo Groups • Oak Ridge Based Yahoo Groups • KORRnet.org Hosted Listservs

  21. DiscoverET.org Mailing Lists

  22. DiscoverET.org Mailing Lists • 41 Lists available • Click list name • Description of the list • How to subscribe/unsubscribe • List archives

  23. Case Studies of Similar Sites

  24. Example Sites • Wiki = SeattleWiki • www.seattlewiki.org/wiki/Main_Page • Blog = Gothamist • www.gothamist.com • Listserv/Email = Vancouver Community Network • www2.vcn.bc.ca • Calendar = Littleton Community Network • www.littleton.org • Discussion Board = Davis Community Network • forums.dcn.org/goals

  25. SeattleWiki.org

  26. Gothamist.com

  27. Vancouver Community Network

  28. Littleton.org Calendar

  29. DCN - Davis Community Network

  30. Group Recommendations • Wikis • Open Source Software: TWiki, Kwiki, MediaWiki, PmWiki, MoinMoin… • Blogs • Listservs/Emails • Calendars • CalendarScript - $85 for typical license ownership; $50 for not-for-profits; free trial • Discussion Boards • Ezboard.com – “free” • vBulletin – one year lease $85; license ownership $160

  31. Group Recommendations • Overall design for community-interaction and information-sharing pages • More fully integrated, under a single header • Header = “Communication & Media”

  32. References • CalendarScript 3.2. [http://www.calendarscript.com] • Davis Community Network [http://forums.dcn.org/goals] • DiscoverET.org. [www.discoveret.org] • ezboard. [www.ezboard.com] • Fish, Shlomi. “Which open source wiki works for you?” ONLamp.com. [http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2004/11/04/which_wiki.html] • Gothamist. [www.gothamist.com] • Habermas, Jurgen. The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgois Society. Boston: MIT Press, 1991. • Littleton Community Network [www.littleton.org] • SeattleWiki. [www.seattlewiki.org/wiki/Main_Page] • Schuler, Douglas and Peter Day. Shaping the Network Society. Boston: MIT Press, 2004. • Vancouver Community Network [www2.vcn.bc.ca] • vBulletin. [www.vbulletin.com]

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