Hyperviews Online

If you’re responsible for building an online community in a company or organization, you may find Online Community Report a useful resource: http://www.onlinecommunityreport.com/ as well as this page by Amy Jo Kim: http://www.naima.com/community/

Additional resources include Nancy White’s site: http://www.fullcirc.com and Howard Rheingold’s Cooperation Commons: http://www.cooperationcommons.org/

There is also an email list: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/onlinefacilitation/

We Are Smarter than Me (http://www.wearesmarter.org/) invites authors to participate in writing the first networked book on business, to be published in the fall of 2007 by Pearson Publishing.  The group says “Together we will write the book on how the emergence of community and social networks will change the future rules of business.”

Books:

Game Design Workshop: Designing, Prototyping, & Playtesting Games.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1578202221/

Chris Crawford on Game Design
http://www.amazon.com/Chris-Crawford-Game-Design/dp/0131460994/

Web site, collection of information on game design patterns:
http://www.gamedesignpatterns.org/

Library and Information Technology Association (LITA), a division of the American Library Association. 2007 LITA National Forum: Technology with Altitude: 10 Years of the LITA National Forum. Denver, Colorado, USA. October 4-7, 2007.

Presentations will have a technological focus and pertain to libraries and/or be of interest to librarians. The scope of the conference call for papers included:

1. Social Computing: social tools, collaborative software, gaming technologies…

2. New Media: wireless connectivity, iPods, handhelds… (more…)

Find information on many aspects of email and email clients at http://mailformat.dan.info/ Topics include Headers, Body, Trailers, Quoting, Attachments, and Configuration of clients.

In the August 2006 issue of EContent, Bob Doyle’s article “Community Portals and Plaforms” examines how websites support collaboration in virtual communities through multiple tools integrated by web services. (more…)

Scoop is a content management application used by journalists to produce major newspapers and magazines. The main editing tool is Scoop Edit for print or Scoop Headline for web. All edited material is stored in a central database, on a file server, a SQL server, or both. Scoop eLibrary provides archival searching for old articles. This system is described fully in an article on the Swedish producer’s site.

Scoop is also the name of a blogging application used by many popular sites. This application allows site users to make posts and comments, and has special ranking features to support discussion by a community. Thus topics stay on the main page because they are important to users of the site. There are also categories, created by site administrators, which allow for retrieving posts by topic, and navigational lists of posts made recently or by frequent posters.

Adobe JamJar is an interactive, attractive, and scalable internet application based on Flex 2 technologies. JamJar provides a private, persistent work area for small groups to easily exchange digital content in order to plan events, exchange ideas, manage projects, centralize information, and share files including images.

Recent news includes “Web 2.0 and the enterprise,” reporting on uses of wikis and blogs for collaboration in business and on trends in marketing software to businesses. In particular IBM recently announced QED wiki, quick and easily done wiki, to allow people to aggregate information from the web for use in analysis of business situations. The concept is building custom web applications very quickly.

There are many Wikis on the web. A few examples of particular interest to technical communicators are listed here, along with tools identified as potentially useful for technical documentation. (more…)

Knowledge Management is an area of focus for the Online SIG. We have listed resources and compiled a list of websites on that topic. That list follows. (more…)

We published an article in February, “Email Lists and Forums,” and we continually update this list of discussion forums in the field. You are invited to add to this list by leaving a comment. (more…)

The Online SIG of STC is an online or virtual community, and part of our charter is developing and showcasing ways for virtual communities to collaborate. We continually gather resources on the subject and list them here. (more…)