Communication 2.0 with Blogs and Wikis Nicole C. Engard October 30, 2007 EMA 2007
Jenkins Intranet Timeline Nicole C. Engard – EMA 2007
Problems to Solve 1 Communication Between Staff, Managers and Staff, and Between Departments 2 Too many Places to look For information Jenkins Site Staff Schedule Room Rentals 3 Organization: No navigation On Intranet & No logical way To find info 4 Cluttered Inboxes Communication Was all via Nicole C. Engard – EMA 2007
Typical Project Procedure Set up a meeting with everyone involved Start a list of tasks on your calendar Create a document assigning specific people to tasks Share the document via with committee members Nicole C. Engard – EMA 2007
Communication During a Project Nicole C. Engard – EMA 2007
Communication During a Project Nicole C. Engard – EMA 2007
Communication During a Project Nicole C. Engard – EMA 2007
Communication During a Project Nicole C. Engard – EMA 2007
Communication During a Project Nicole C. Engard – EMA 2007
Communication During a Project And now,everyone knows little bits and pieces and no one knows everything. Nicole C. Engard – EMA 2007
Why not use a blog? Nicole C. Engard – EMA 2007
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 … Nicole C. Engard – EMA 2007
Intranet 2.0 Solution - Blogs Web-based & full-text searchable Archived & backed up Visible to all staff – no one is left out Fewer s in our inboxes Conversational ( -like) format Date and time stamps Ability to link to relevant pages & comments Nicole C. Engard – EMA 2007
What did the staff think? Nicole C. Engard – EMA 2007
Kathy Coon – Deputy Director It has cut down on some of the clutter in my inbox. Now that the important facts are on the project pages, I no longer save everything! It's great having everything related to a project in one place. When I worked on my annual report last year, it helped put the year in perspective. Nicole C. Engard – EMA 2007
Project’s Complete: Now What? Nicole C. Engard – EMA 2007
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 to your intranet? Store them in your ? Print them out? Nicole C. Engard – EMA 2007
Why not use a wiki? Nicole C. Engard – EMA 2007
Intranet 2.0 Solution - Wikis Web-based & full-text searchable Archived & backed up Visible to all staff – no one is left out History of edits with date and time stamps Ability to link to relevant pages & comments Sound familiar? Nicole C. Engard – EMA 2007
What did the staff think? Nicole C. Engard – EMA 2007
It's a darn nuisance, making documentation, but ya gotta or you won't remember what ya did last tuesday. These wiki thangs are better than tha old way. - Ken Snyder, Network Admin Jenkins Law Library Nicole C. Engard – EMA 2007
The Wikis being used for indexing projects make updating much smoother. No more lost files! -Nancy Garner, Head of Info & Research Services Jenkins Law Library Nicole C. Engard – EMA 2007
Let’s See It In Action! Nicole C. Engard – EMA 2007
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