This presentation was delivered to a group of researchers who were about to embark on a geographically dispersed research project. In the end the "proposal for openness" was rejected mostly because of privacy concerns around the collected data. The wordpress blog will live on, and is expected to be used for more for open reporting later in the project.

1. Coordinating a geographically dispersed research project using social mediaHow to keep the conversation going Michael Paskevicius April 1, 2011

2. A proposal for openness using wordpress Part 1

3. by andrew and hobbes

4. Why are we here? We want to share ideas, stories, have discussions, ask questions, respond, etc. But we do not want to overload our already busy email inboxes Schroeder, D. (2009). Web 2.0 Social Computing & Generation Y Action Group. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Available online: http://blogs.nasa.gov/cm/wiki/?id=6004

5. What social media tools do we have available to us?

6. How can we tie these social media tools together and keep a discussion going ?

7. http://ictaccessuse.wordpress.com/ Site pages, for admin docs, images etc Site search List of contributors New posts appear here Log in Tweets from Twitter

8. You are an author of this blog You can add entries to the project blog – they appear at the top of the site home page In your post you can link to other websites on the web Your entries will be published and appear immediately on the blog You can upload images, audio, video, attachments and create surveys/polls You can comment on each others entries and reply You can entries using Facebook, Twitter or by email The project leads will be able to engage with you and can ask and respond to questions

9. Site view Authors view (logged in)

10. Authors Dashboard view (logged in) Create a new post Summary of blog activity Edit existing posts Edit profile info, picture

11. Post creation page – works much like editing text in MS Word and you can also add images and other media When you are done, hit publish!

12. When published your entry becomes part of the site

13. Interacting with posts Share the post with your social network on Twitter or Facebook. Or email the post directly to someone Let the author know that you enjoyed the post Leave a comment on the post for the author to view and respond to

14. You can also email in your posts If you are not into logging onto Wordpress.com and creating your posts you do have the option to email your entries directly to the blog You lose some of the creative flexibility you have inside the editor but it does work! This could be very useful when travelling, and perhaps you could even email posts in from your phone?

16. Getting to know Twitter Part 2

17. Twitter is a space for sharing ideas and connecting to people whose work you are interested in

18. Much like Facebook’s status update, you can share what you are doing or thinking, talk to someoneor share a web link Tweets that include the text #ICTAU are linked to our website and also linked together by this unique hashtag If you want to talk to someone use the @ character. mpaskevi is the username of someone who I want to view my Tweet This tweet also includes a link to a YouTube video that I want to share

19. Because I used the #ICTAU hashtag my tweet will also appear on our website

20. USING url shortener’s Part 3

21. You only get 140 characters to use in tweets so if you want to share a link it needs to be shortened This URL is 94 characters which doesn’t leave much room for any textual context!

22. Use bit.ly to shorten urls to a smaller length Paste the long URL in the window at http://bit.ly This URL has been shortened to 20 characters, leaving 120 characters for my message!

23. Ill use the shortened URL on Twitter so that I can add more text into my tweet. And the short URL will redirect anyone who clicks the link to the longer URL

24. Bit.ly provides real-time analytics on the links you create. So you can see how much interest your link has generated and where in the world they came from

25. Getting Signed up with Wordpress tutorial Part 4

26. Sign up with Wordpress

27. Sign up for just a username

28. Enter user details

29. You will receive an activation email – click the activation link

30. Once your account is active – Now send Cheryl the email address you registered with

31. Once you have emailed us we will add you to the project blog. We will let you know when this is complete and then you can login back at Wordpress.com

32. Under ‘My Account’ and ‘Edit my Profile’ you can add profile information and an image or feel free to remain anonymous

33. Once logged in you will see across the top of the screen ‘My blog’ – this is where you can interact with the ‘ICT Access and Use‘ project blog

34. On your ‘Dashboard’ you can see what has been happening on the blog and start contributing content

35. Prepared by: Michael Paskevicius Contact me: mike.vicious@gmail.com OpenContent Directory: http://opencontent.uct.ac.za OER UCT project blog:http://blogs.uct.ac.za/blog/oer-uct Follow us:http://twitter.com/openuct Follow me:http://twitter.com/mpaskevi Presentations:http://www.slideshare.net/mpaskevi This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 South Africa License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/za/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 171 Second Street, Suite 300, San Francisco, California, 94105, USA.