Tracey P. Lauriault
Dept. of Geography, 1125 Colonel By Dr., Ottawa (ON) K1S 5B6
>
> Hello:
>
> Just a brief comment.
>
> As this group is new and in the throngs of developing Mission Statements,
> Goals and Objective, etc, I thought that it might be useful if it adopted a
> Wiki that people could post to. They are great collaborative working tools
> enabling people to jointly create and edit documents. (p.s. I just noticed
> on another post that the Ettiquette for the group is on a Wiki ... so it
> would appear that other issues could be worked on there.)
>
> A Blog could also be developed for the group. It would contain information
> about the goals and objectives, as well as general discussion areas that
> people could post comments to - and maintain the threaded discussion.
> Eventually, it would be a marketing tool that you could point others towards
> when you seek to create public awareness of issues related to access of
> information.
>
> Both blogs and wikis are available in Open Source - so the cost of creating
> on is the cost of time. The benefits are in marketing, collaborative
> undertakings, organizing issues around which debates occur, and archiving
> debates.
>
> I also agree with a previous posting - it is very important that the group
> presents itself as reasonable and not hotheads. Other organizations - like
> Moveon.org - do a great job of creating public awareness of social issues in
> a manner that is presented as very professional and very effective. See
> their site at:
>
> <a href='
http://www.moveon.org/'>
http://www.moveon.org/</a>
>
>
> Carmen Kazakoff-Lane
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