• Extending Google Wave with Gravity

    Confused by what Google Wave might be useful for?  Here is a nicely demonstrated scenario going through a business process modeling project.    I like the example of new members re-playing the Wave to catch up on the team’s progress — very efficient.  It seems to me that a workplace effort to encourage this type of Google Wave use would need some type of kick-off/introduction workshop.  Get a big group together, have some scripted collaborative tasks, and have them use wave to accomplish those tasks.  You’d teach the tool and also work on the general topic of effective collaboration/team work.

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  • WP – collecting user feedback

    Just yesterday I had a request to create a tool to collect some follow-up responses from our staff regarding a recent university-wide workplace survey.   So we need something simple, easy to maintain, quick to launch AND that collects the responses in a format that permits easy and flexible reporting.  As I recently demonstrated our WordPress MU installation makes it easy to launch a project-specific site which includes user-login tied to the school’s central user authentication system.  So simple-easy-quick — doing this through WordPress gets me at least half-way there.  And I remembered a recent suggestion in my Twitter feed to look at the WordPress Surveys plugin.

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  • Screencasts with Screenr

    Screenr offers a new service to make screen recordings and share them via twitter and other web sites.  It looks easy enough, so I decided to give it a spin with a quick WordPress MU demonstration.  When you launch the recording tool, it lets you set which area of the screen to record.  You push play and you’re off and running, up to 5 minutes in length.  When done you can preview the video and then it gets automatically deployed in web and iPhone versions.  No edits, fancy fade-ins or other effects — but in the video arena and enforced simplicity is probably best.  Do it right the first time, post it and move on (spoken as someone who has spend hours perfecting a 4 minute video!)

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