Wikis

Here we are in week 3 of RULA Learning 2.0 and I have just posted a link to a recipe for Blueberry Cheesecake on our RULA wiki.

I think wikis can be useful tools for collaboration. In a past life I had to create a wireframe for a team wiki that would be used for all team communication, document storage, etc. We spent a lot of time planning the wiki and trying to anticipate how people would use it but I do not know how much use the wiki is getting now as a team tool.

In terms of wikis as authoritative sources, I know that I often refer to Wikipedia to get some fast facts about something with which I am unfamiliar. I think Wikipedia can be a very useful tool, but it should be used with some caution.

More Bloglines activities

Ok, so I reduced my number of RSS feeds from 22 to 13, but I have now subscribed to the blogs of my group members, so I am back up to 20 feeds. Here is my blogroll.

Happy blogging and blog following everyone!

Bloglines activities

I just rediscovered my bloglines account ... hadn't logged in in probably close to 2 years! Amazingly I was able to remember my email (my old RRU email) and password and so I have now updated my email address. Apparently I am subscribed to 22 blogs and I think I can probably lower that number down a bit!

Winter in Toronto

Here is a shot from a sunny Sunday morning in the woods by our new house on the east side of the Humber River. There were fresh cross-country ski tracks and snowshoe tracks and even a snow angel! Now I just have to find my cross-country ski boots before this weekend's snowfall ...