So you’ve done a presentation or you have an idea that you would like to expand…wouldn’t you like to allow your audience to contribute to your vision?

You have procedures that you would like to share with your staff…let your staff collaborate with you!

If you would like to create a collaborative website, or a just place for your own notes, try creating a wiki.  Here is a practical introduction to Wikis in the workplace.

• Some OPLIN staff members use these free wiki packages:  TiddlyWiki and dokuwiki.
• Or here is a wiki comparing available wiki software:  Wiki farm

Two examples of a wiki in use:

• Wikis 101 Home – from Special Libraries Association
• Open Thinking Wiki - Digital Literacies & Emerging Technologies

Cool fact from this 4Cast:
“Wiki” has been backronymed by some to “What I Know Is” (Wikipedia)

Your private data will be collected and stored if you go online.  Here is one way for you to control at least one aspect of it.

• Google Dashboard [video] contains a summary of Dashboard in under three minutes.
• Dashboard shows what Google knows about you: Critics say Google makes some privacy progress, but call for more transparency
• Google Dashboard Changes Our Thinking About Privacy Do we protect or do we manage our digital information?

• Two resources for people who think their online rights or privacy have been violated:
  Electronic Privacy Information Center  was established in 1994 draw attention to online emerging “civil liberties issues and to protect privacy, the First Amendment, and constitutional values.”  EPIC also publishes an online newsletter on civil liberties in the information age – the EPIC Alert. They also publish reports and even books about privacy, open government, free speech, and other important topics related to civil liberties.
  The Electronic Frontier Foundation protects freedom in the online world.  The EFF defends “free speech, privacy, innovation, and consumer rights.”

Cool fact from this 4Cast:
Google said the tool monitors more than 20 commonly used products, including Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Web History, YouTube, Picasa, Talk, Reader, Alerts and Google Latitude.