I have been slowly working my way through Indi Young’s book, Mental Models: Aligning Design Strategy with Human Behavior. Here is the link to the book:
I am sold on the value of a simple, web based project management tool. In my survey last spring I landed on WebAsyst, attracted by its PHP/MySQL backend. After a testing period I purchased the software which we now host on our own department server. It is really helpful to get into the habit of having a project team use this type of tool.
Bravo! No arguments on this list — my top pick below, but take a look yourself. And as I prepare to head to the polls at 6am tomorrow, His on-line voting wish seems especially on target!
Dave Lester, organizer of the first official WordCamp ED event (FYI I am organizing the second ) has a listing on his blog of schools using WordPress MU. He missed Yale, where our Instructional Technology group has an installation they are using to support classroom blogs. (Ken and Yianni are speaking at the NorthEast WordCamp event! ) But it is not yet an officially public use, so the omission is understandable.
Alex commented on my recent post regarding email overload, and is offering an invitation to participate in a beta of the OtherInBox, a new service he is developing. The link is beta.otherinbox.com/signup/rodeworks .
In a recent meeting of web professionals from around our university a discussion of Content Management Systems (CMS) for web content came up. The spark was certainly the terrific presentation from one of our group on a system his department had created — a custom programmed application utilizing .NET. But you could tell there was some pent up frustration from the group. The idea of a universal CMS is a real holy grail for us web folks. We’d all love to have the burden of updating static pages lifted from our shoulders, and are not eager to take on the burden of maintaining our own custom systems. The big commercial systems often seem too expensive, but the open source ones don’t seem to quite hit the mark either.
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