Thread Subject: Re: default tab on the wiki

From: terry.weaver@gsa.gov
Date: Tue, Oct 17 2006 8:05 PM

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I think that all of these communication modes having an inherent adoption
lag for those of us who are not wiki / forum/ blog users. I am a big fan
of listservs - I prefer to have messages pushed to me and, since I don't
have the ability to respond immediately, I can usually trace the
conversation thread to get to the current state of dialogue.

I am trying to understand the wiki and right now, my favorite page is the
one that lists all pages. It is interesting to me that most of the
dialogue is happening on the listservs - very little of what I see in the
emails is making its way to the wiki.





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I'm getting such a headache over this that I'm about to propose something
else. To wit: although the wiki is great for co-editing a document, it's
not great for stimulating and managing discussion among tentative or
inexperienced users. The tool for that is a blog or forum. Either would
be
fine with me. In the interest of simplicity, I think we should
auto-enroll
via the listservs, so people don't have to complete yet another cycle of
signup-get email -log in. Go ahead, tell me to soak my head.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jessica M. Brodey [mailto: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = ]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 9:30 AM
> To: 'TEITAC Communications Task Force'
> Subject: Re: [teitac-tools] default tab on the wiki
>
> The problem is the users would not see the content when they
> first arrived, and that would be quite confusing - they would
> just see the big discuss box and would not understand what to
> do or what to discuss.
>
> Jessica
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED =
> [mailto: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = ] On Behalf Of Jim Tobias
> Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 7:11 AM
> To: 'TEITAC Communications Task Force'
> Subject: [teitac-tools] default tab on the wiki
>
> Hi Jared,
>
> For all pages in the wiki, is it possible to default to the
> Discuss tab rather than the Edit tab? This might encourage new users.
>
> ***********
> Jim Tobias
> Inclusive Technologies
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> +1.732.441.0831 v/tty
> skype jimtobias
> www.inclusive.com
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