Tobias, > Where - unfortunately - DropBoxWiki seems to fall short - as > TiddlyWiki does itself - is in being able to collaboratively edit > shared content ...beyond a mere aggregation of otherwise independent > content bits.
I think that when thinking about collaboration using the web, the small team of around 6 people is overlooked. I think its fundamentally different from massive collaborative projects. I suppose I have had a context in mind - [[The Action Leaning Set]]. This is usually group of around 6 people. More specifically, I have in mind a [[Systems and Cybernetics Action Leaning Set]] - a possible real life context for me. I worked with a group of in this community for 2 years developing a "Organisational Maturity Model" on TW. After all that time, I still could not encourage experimentation with TW. It is difficult to change peoples working habits, especially when they start to loose their cool. Espoused Theory and real life action, according to Chris Argyris [2] are not always the same. The slightest whiff of stress and its back to "tried and tested" simple methods of collaboration. A google seach for "Action Learning" leads me to a cruft pattern - [[Academic papers are PDFs]] and "The nature of action learning: what is learned about in action learning?" [1] is unavailable to those without a login. If it were a small group, someone could download it and share it -- by e-mail or put it in a dropbox. The [[All in one file on my computer and not on the web for everyone to see]] aspect of dropboxing is something i think less IT literate teams would be drawn to. People used to working on teams, ones which meet face to face, should easily be able to organise a shared file structure. When audio, video, images, spreadsheets and blogs are the materials of every day life, dropbox and TW could be demonstratively beneficial in bringing things together and enabling navigation though the material. Alex [1] http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/29267/ [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Argyris However, as pointed out by others already DropBox gives > a lot of flexibility in terms of external files, which under certain > conditions might be more important than the added value of shared > editing. > > Perhaps it might make sense to focus on and investigate scenarios and > workflows where a master maintainer could pull content from > contributors and thus (re-)structure all those content bits that ask > for migration, besides a members individual content bits. > > A simple way to indicate that a tiddler is more of an individual, > personal kind might be to prefix those with a users initials. However, > the remaining question seems to be "if" or simply "how" there could be > "shared tiddlers" (aka "collaboratively edited content"), rather than > "shared wikis" in a DropBox environment. > > Cheers, Tobias. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TiddlyWiki" group. > To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki?hl=en.
