Office Communication The 2.0 Way Nicole C. Engard September 20, 2007
It's time to start a new project. What do you do? Set up a meeting with everyone involved? Start a list of tasks on your personal calendar? Create and a document assigning specific people to tasks?
Why not use a blog?
Typical Project Procedures
Communication During a Project
And now,everyone knows little bits and pieces and no one knows everything.
How many of you can say that one year down the line you’ll be able to find that regarding policy changes? Then there’s the issue of finding information years down the road …
Blogs as an office communication tool Web-based & full-text searchable Archived & backed up Visible to all staff (depending on permissions) – no one is left out Fewer s to store/search through Conversational ( -like) format Date and time stamps Ability to link to relevant pages & comments
Project’s Complete: Now What?
Once your project is done, what do you do with all of those documents you were passing back & forth? Store them on a shared drive? Add links to them on your intranet? Store them in your ? Print them out?
Why not try a wiki?
Wikis as an office collaboration tool Web-based & full-text searchable Archived & backed up Visible to and editable by all staff (if permissions allow) – no one is left out History of edits with date and time stamps Ability to link to relevant pages & comments
Possible Intranet Tools Content management systems (CMS) usually include blogs, wikis and other office communication and collaboration tools − Microsoft Sharepoint − Joomla − Drupal − Demo freely available CMSs:
Let’s See A Working Example in Action!
Thank You Nicole C. Engard Metadata Librarian Princeton Theological Seminary Library & Learn more: