[OSList] Please recommend a good website to post daily breaking news for OS!

[Ben Roberts]

At the recent WOSonOS gathering in St. Petersburg FL, we had excellent
success with the use of Google docs as the main newsroom platform.
Participants could choose to take notes directly onto Google doc templates
during a session (sometimes collaboratively in real time), or to take notes
in some other way and then transfer them (with tech assistance from the
newsroom "staff" if needed) to a Google doc. All notes were placed into a
general folder with sharing settings granting access to anyone with the
link.  It contained sub-folders for each of the days of the engagement so
that it was easy to find the notes online as soon as they were posted. I
believe this approach has been used at some other OS engagements since then
as well.

 

Another platform to which I am partial is called "Hackpad" ( www.hackpad.com
).  This tool makes it easy to create a linked set of "pads" that I have
found particularly valuable for virtual OST experiments such as this one:
https://hackpad.com/NDN-June-Open-Space-Home-Base-X0sVLLcTGtF.  I have also
used it successfully for in-person gatherings. It is much simpler to create
links between various documents that belong to a given set using this
platform. It also displays authorship, which is very nice for collaborative
note-taking. And it has a very easy to use table of contents feature to help
people move around a given document. Formatting and commenting options are
more limited than Google Docs, however.

 

Regards,

Ben

 

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Dear fellow OS practitioners,

 

Good day!

 

Would you have websites you can recommend to me for the daily uploading of
the documentation of the OS sessions? Kindly share from your experience the
advantages and disadvantages of using this site...was it easy to access, did
the documents open easily, etc...

 

Looking forward...

 

Carms

 

 

 

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