1. CitiWiki Summer Workshop W2 Day 2: Wiki Management, RSS and GoogleGroup Li Xu CS, UMass Lowell

2. 2 Day 2 Agenda Wikispaces site management GoogleGroup as mailing list and discussion forum RSS feed on wikispaces 2

3. 3 Day 2 Goals Understand wikispaces management Manage your space Create your GoogleGroup Use RSS feed on your Wiki Project time 3

4. 4 Math101 Example See source code Math101 page Schedule page Side panel

5. 5 Wikispaces Management Site organization Site backup User access control Look and feel Use the left panel: “Manage Space”

6. 6 Wikispaces Management List pages Backup as.zip files Space name, info

7. 7 Wikispaces Management User access control Members and permissions Public, protected, private Private will mandate user login to view page Invite members by sending email Member can request to join (left panel)

8. 8 Wikispaces Management Look and feel Theme: bubble Colors: background, #ffcc66 web color: http://html-color-codes.com/http://html-color-codes.com/ Edit CSS directly Logo: upload an image

9. 9 Wikispaces Examples School Examples Westwood.wikispaces.com

10. 10 Wikispaces Exercise: List your page, login name on CitiWiki Change permission to private Find others spaces: Invite others to join your space Request to join other’s space

11. 11 Wikispaces Exercise: Change look and feel Change your theme, bubble, etc CSS styling sheet

12. 12 GoogleGroup Mailing list and discussion forum Groups.google.com, sign in use your email If not registered, need to register first Choose Create a group

13. 13 GoogleGroup In the setup page Set group name, email, web page, group discription Access level (public, private-member only) Add members Invite members through email Member management Edit membership

14. 14 GoogleGroup Exercise List your Email on your CitiWiki page Find others email and invite them to your group

15. 15 RSS Feed Use RSS to monitor page update RSS Reader Desktop: thunderbird Web-based: bloglines

16. 16 RSS Feed Sign in on bloglines (http://www.bloglines.com/register) use your email to register Choose “notify me” tab on your space Copy&paste RSS link, add link to blogline feeds->add

17. 17 RSS Feed Exercise Add your main page RSS to your bloglines feed

18. 18 Day 2 Assignment Refine your space setting, look and feel Add GoogleGroup link to your main page Use RSS feed to view page update