Media & Collaboration Tools Amanda Hickman OSI Information Program Copyright 2006, Amanda B Hickman. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 License. If you find it helpful, feel free to use it, build from it, pass it on: just make sure you give me some credit and share your own work.

What kind of service: Free Services Fee Based Services Self-hosted Services and a reminder... People are intelligent. Machines are tools.

Concepts: Tagging, tags: “tag” is just a fancy word for category. RSS: Really Simple Syndication Wiki: a made up word for any website that can be edited easily by readers. Blog: a ghastly truncation of “weblog”-- intended for personal or professional journals, blogs can be very versatile.

Collaborative Media Cheat Sheet blog software  the end result doesn't have to be a “blog”: anything that divides nicely into chunks works well. Good for:  Quick websites, websites with multiple contributors  news briefs  posting questions and getting help or suggestions  Report backs (public or private)  Quick petitions (using the comments field)

Blogs WordPress Movable Type blogger.com, blogspot.com

need another good blog screenshot

Collaborative Media Cheat Sheet Wiki: Collaboratively edited website  agenda planning  shared document editing  compiling fact sheets  tracking changes

Wikis PB Wiki Media Wiki

Collaborative Media Cheat Sheet lists  good for information sharing, updates, conversations  archives get overwhelmed, information isn't stored very well  most people know how to use  designate a moderator and back them up

Collaborative Media Cheat Sheet calendar software  good for sharing dates and scheduling  subscribe to a calendar and add it to your own desktop calendar.  Quick schedulers Meet with Approval, Meet-o-Matic  Real Calendars: Web based: 30 Boxes, Google Calendar Hosted: Brown Bear Calcium

Collaborative Media Cheat Sheet: Video Sharing  you tube, Photo sharing sites  (alternatives include or Uses  sharing videos and images that aren't private  Creating and distributing intentionally public video and images.

Collaborative Media Cheat Sheet: How to make videos? 

Collaborative Media Cheat Sheet Mapping  Yahoo and Googlemaps offer "openAPIs" to their services which allow you to write programs that use their maps or overlay data sets on their maps. 

Collaborative Media Cheat Sheet More Content Mangement Systems (CMS) Drupal, Plone, Joomla (Mambo)  More complex  More robust  Usually require dedicated technical support Other InterestingBits: Lighting Bug, Base Builder, CiviCRM

Things to think about: Do you need multilingual software? How multilingual? How private is this information? (or, will people be responsible with passwords)

Privacy, Confidentiality, Security Electronic communications are fundamentally insecure. Will someone find your data? Subpoena your data? ALWAYS read the terms of service. Never assume that data is confidential.

Martus Screenshot

What do you need to do? Share files or distribute final documents Share editing, collaborate on unfinished documents Coordinate dates, share calendars Track to-do lists and assignments, follow through Report back, progress reports Manage and respond to requests for help

interesting opportunities: How could this network create a centralized website that would allow people to search content that is published on other sites? Rapid response petitions? Share training materials and fact sheets internally? Pull syndicated content onto individual websites.

Now what? What of these tools would you like to know more about? Think back to Question 3 from this morning: What material/assistance would be helpful to have? What could be aggregated or created using a wiki? A blog? Would it be public or private? Amanda