Most of us use the internet primarily for email, research, and some basic shopping, but we don’t really have the time for much else because we are so busy with all the groups and activities that we are involved with. It is a bit ironic that, given the amount of time consumed by our involvement with various groups that we don’t have more tools to facilitate that (beyond email, anyway).
I think I am pretty representative of an audience that is fairly non-technical – cell phones and email are the tools of choice, but we’d like to use more without having to have the technical support staff (or our kids) hold our hands every time we need to do something.
This blog is about GROUPS – everything from professional associations and enterprise collaboration to purely social and civic endeavors like the PTA, scouting, church groups, and youth organizations – and how those groups can use wikis to improve their efforts, communications.
Instead of ME telling YOU what you ought to know about all the tools and techniques out there to streamline your life and various affiliations, I like to ‘tee up’ various scenarios that I know cause ad-hoc groups frustration. Those of you who have some answers can tell the rest of us what YOU are doing to facilitate and streamline group and organizational activities. Let’s let the audience help the audience.
In other words, we need lots of comments to these posts.
How many ad-hoc civic and volunteer groups do you belong to?
How many ad-hoc groups do you belong to at work?
Do you have an easy to use collaborative space to use? (Hint - Lotus Notes is not the right answer.)
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