If you would like the paper in a different location, let me know. I think you've already read most of what I have so far. The link to the wiki should work. If there are any problems, I'll do what I can tonight to fix them.

Slideshow

Ok, sorry all. I forgot to make that slideshow public. I'll do that tonight!

Update

The wiki is updated. The paper is attached, for the time being, at the bottom of the home page. Find it here.

Be gentle...it's not finished

Well, I know we're supposed to have a rough sketch of our project by tomorrow. Though I haven't seen anything about where to turn it in, it was a good bench mark. I have proceeded with my original plan for the project. There will be a video PowerPoint added to the home page of my Wiki course. Let me know what you think.

Ben's 593 Project

Wiki's

I'd never known what Wiki actually meant. Hawaiian for quick...interesting. I guess quickie was already taken (man that was bad.) Actually with Wiki's, I have found that wetpaint is probably the most user-friendly that I have found. It can't do a whole lot, but it has done everything I've needed it for.

I think that wikis are going to come up in the world of business. A peer-edited, company-relevant encyclopedia of whatever would definitely come in handy for training. This would be especially useful if one could integrate this kind of technology at a company's inception. It would make training for the staff of that company tremendously easier to develop. It would also provide a pretty solid training aid.

Keep in mind, there are weaknesses to a wiki. If all your peers are idiots overconfident in their knowledge of a certain topic, it can really make that peer-edited feature a pitfall. However, despite this, I think we'll see them popping up more and more.

RSS and Aggregators

Here are a couple of interesting and basic links that list and/or rate aggregators.

wikipedia list
about.com ratings

This is interesting from this week's entry: "Some organizations are using this to let people know about changes to documents or procedures, etc."

This would be a great boon to training and to the workers here at LANL if we could use something like this to guarantee that everyone gets copied on procedural updates. Right now, we're working with a great doc control coordinator, but he's still human. If the employee could register/sign up for a feed, the responsibility would fall on the worker to ensure that they check the feed. I believe it would create less work for all parties involved. More to come...