Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Latest on technology developments

Hi Arlis/ANZ

This week on the blog: 10th April 2007

I thought you might like to know some recent, very recent (as in, like, today) experiments with, and applications of, technologies that are being adopted amongst the Arlis/ANZ membership.

The QLD and NSW wikis continue to evolve. NSW are posting their meeting minutes to their wiki, and the QLDers are posting their meeting agendas and preparing a conference organising space, on theirs.

Today, for my part, I created a Yahoo7 Group space for the QLD membership - a space where we can throw around ideas and discuss issues etc, without having to meet, and without the linear restrictions of email. It's linked from the QLD Chapter wiki - so feel free to take a look: http://au.groups.yahoo.com/group/arlisqld/

I am currently a member of distributed a research student cohort which meets in this same virtual environment, I've been part of the virtual discussion for only a few weeks - and already the possibilities on offer have amazed and excited me! I can see such clear advantages to the operations of Arlis/ANZ.

So if all goes well, the Arlis/ANZ Executive might experiment with this same technology. It should enable us to conduct rich and timely virtual discussions, and enhance the Executive's ability to commmunicate in a fluid and dynamic manner.

Stay tuned for developments..... feel free to post a comment to the blog!

Ellen

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Ellen the discussion group sounds intriguing. Keep us posted on its development!

Anonymous said...

The title and suggested themes sound engaging and timely. This should prove a very attractive conference. Congratulations to our very hip and creative committee!