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

[Michael Herman]

I just started a new project using wikispaces.com. I find it easy to use,
even for beginners, as it works a lot like Word or other wordprocessing
software. That said, there are a lot of special tools that allow organizers
to do quite a number of tricky advanced things.

The number of members in a single wiki is limited to five in the free
version, but that can be easily worked around in a newsroom setting. And if
many users want to be able to edit on an ongoing basis, there is a
fee-based plan for unlimited users.  The fee is waived for education
applications.

Another important function, to add to those Ben mentioned, is the ability
to export contents. Wikispaces.com does support exporting.

Michael



On Monday, September 30, 2013, Ben Roberts wrote:

> 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.****
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> 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.****
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> Regards,****
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> Ben****
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> breaking news for OS!****
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> Dear fellow OS practitioners,****
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> Good day!****
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> 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...****
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> Looking forward...****
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> Carms****
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-- 
Michael Herman
MichaelHerman.com
(312) 280-7838

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