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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