It has been a long day of pondering inbetween rapid attention shifting tasks, dipping into email, pinging IMs, and browsing feeds. My brain is tired.
After a cardio and yoga workout at the gym, spent a good part of the day obsessing about the design for an evaluation on mobile technology tools for health care outreach workers. Next a final look at the final KM4DEV call for papers for June, 2007 Issue called "Stewarding Technologies for Collaboration, Community Building & Knowledge Sharing in Development" (I'm a guest editor along with Nancy White, Beverly Traynor, and Lucie Lamoureux - others to join.) Then onto pondering for a project to collect leads for professional nonprofit conferences and trying to figure out what will be easier for respondents - email reply or wiki.
Wiki seems to be a theme for me today, starting off with an email from colleague asking me and several others about the best method to collect quick feedback for a draft of a survey. Funny several other colleagues cc: in the email said wiki! I agree in theory, but in practice I have to say it depends.
Who is the audience? How large is the group? It depends on how "finished" the survey is, how long it is, and whether or people you want to solicit feedback from are in a wiki habit. Would you miss out on valuable feedback from some folks who are, as one colleague said to me, "I'm allergic to wikis." Is a wiki really the best method for on-shot feedback or is it better for deeper collaboration over time? I think providing multiple methods -- like email, blog comments, is good thing -- unless it is a very small group of collaborators.
Funny, the next email was from a commentor to a post I did on wiki adoption in organizations. I had used the commentors flickr photo - "CC BY license" and he stopped to say thanks. Needing a distraction, I checked out his flickr profile and noticed a Flickr Score and link to the Flickr Inspector. Here's my profile
The interesting thing I discovered was that you can easily track your blogged flickr photos through the flickr inspector's integrated search. So, here's another set of ego feeds you can add to your reader. Why bother? Good question. Not sure except that you could see if your photos were not being attributed, connect with a kindred visual spirit, find an amusing way to take a mental break.
And the Flickr Inspector also gives you a meaningless score too ...cambodia4kidsorg's flickr score: 3427
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