Dear Tom,
The Wiki sounds really interesting Tom, congratulations. I'll sign up
for it sometime - I just had a quick look and think it may not be open
yet?
Regards,
Ann
PS Good luck with the presentation, pity I'm missing it.
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From: Tom Wolff [mailto:tom_at_wolffinfo.com]
Sent: 14 October 2008 01:06
To: PIUG Discussion List @ Listbox
Subject: [PIUG List] Announcing the new PIUG Wiki and a
Workshop-Tutorial-Open Discussion at Northeast Conference on Wednesday,
October 15 at 11:00 am - 12:30 pm
The new PIUG wiki (http://wiki.piug.org) is now available. Background
and description of the PIUG wiki is the subject of my presentation, "The
PIUG Wiki - A New Medium for PIUG Collaboration and Discussion," at the
PIUG 2008 Conference in New Brunswick, NJ, on Tuesday October 14.
The ABSTRACT and the PRESENTATION document are loaded in the PIUG wiki
in the Electronics Communications Committee forum at
http://wiki.piug.org/x/EIA7 <http://wiki.piug.org/x/EIA7> . No login to
the wiki is required to view content. Registration and login offers
additional access and functions; see "Access and Signup" hints and the
presentation abstract below.
The WORKSHOP on "PIUG Wiki: Tutorial and Open Discussion on Usage and
Issues" will be offered at the Northeast Conference on Wednesday,
October 15 from 11:00 am to 12:30 pm. No registration is needed and
walkins are encouraged. Also look for webcast tutorials on using the
wiki in late October and in November--announcements will be via PIUG-L.
Wiki ACCESS and SIGNUP is explained in the PIUG Northeast Conference
presentation referenced above. The wiki is viewable by anonymous access,
but users should sign up for edit and collaborative access. Three issues
for new signup:
1. USERNAME --Do not use your email address as your username. Use
your name or recognizable alias as your username.
2. EMAIL ADDRESS -- PIUG members should use the same email address
for the wiki as they do for their membership via 123SignUp in order to
access members-only functionality and content on the wiki. Either can be
changed at a later date.
3. PASSWORDS must be at least 6 characters and include at least one
numeral and one letter.
The PIUG Board and leadership look forward to active collaboration and
communication with the PIUG wiki. Please address questions and feedback
to the wiki Electronics Communications Committee forum at
http://wiki.piug.org/x/fQAa <http://wiki.piug.org/x/fQAa> .
Best regards,
Tom
Thomas E. Wolff, Ph. D.
Patent Information Specialist
Wolff Information Consulting LLC
email: tom_at_wolffinfo.com - web: www.wolffinfo.com
<mailto:piugwebmaster_at_gmail.com>
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"The PIUG Wiki - A New Medium for PIUG Collaboration and Discussion"
Tom Wolff (Wolff Information Consulting LLC)
The new PIUG wiki is designed to further the PIUG mission "to support,
assist, improve and enhance the success of patent information
professionals through leadership, education, communication, advocacy and
networking."
It is also a Web 2.0 development. According to the Wikipedia entry, "Web
2.0 is a living term describing changing trends in the use of World Wide
Web technology and web design that aims to enhance creativity,
information sharing, collaboration and functionality of the web. Web 2.0
concepts have led to the development and evolution of web-based
communities and hosted services, such as social-networking sites, video
sharing sites, wikis, blogs, and folksonomies."
The PIUG wiki has information sharing, social networking, and discussion
forum functionality. It is designed to complement the current PIUG
website, which will be reserved for generally static and official
content, and the current PIUG Discussion List. The primary PIUG wiki
space is open to all patent information professionals worldwide, either
in view-only access without logging in or with create and edit access
through a simple signup procedure. Some content and features are limited
to current PIUG members. For example, only PIUG members are able to
create and maintain "Personal Spaces" that allow members to share
information about themselves. These personal spaces are accessible to
all wiki registrants and are analogous to profiles posted on LinkedIn
and other social networking sites. The PIUG Board of Directors and PIUG
committees, task forces, and teams have wiki spaces open to their
members only. Each wiki space has one or more discussion forums to
eliminate the need for sending mass email to participants.
Wiki spaces and forums have many powerful features including easy
content creation and editing, easy application of links to other wiki
and web content, submission of collaborative comments to any entry,
optional attachment of documents with checkout/check-in control, and
complete user control over whether the user is notified by email of new
contributions ("watches"). Forums are fully integrated within the wiki
and are open or closed in parallel with the wiki space in which they are
hosted. Forum entries have clear topic thread format, full email push of
new or edited content to all who are "watching" the forum, and no of
out-of-office messages. The wiki discussion forum may be viewed in time
as superior to the email discussion list due to these advantageous
features.
This presentation introduces the wiki and cover basic usage, including
viewing,creating, editing and watching wiki content. The presentation is
designed to stimulate discussion at the PIUG Wiki workshop, "PIUG Wiki:
Tutorial and Open Discussion on Usage and Issues," on the following day,
to encourage active community usage and participation, and promote
providing input towards further wiki features improvement.
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