[Web4lib] intranets, wikis and blogs, oh my!

[John Fereira]

At 01:23 PM 11/30/2005, Robin wrote:
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>Hello all,
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>I have been asked (or tasked) by my librarians 
>to set up an intranet, upon (within?) which to 
>experiment with wiki or blog software, or both, 
>in order to have a place where staff can share 
>information, update each other on changes as 
>they occur, etc. I have no direct experience 
>with any of the above, so would appreciate 
>feedback from anyone who's done some of this. 
>Recommendations of good products, or 
>condemnations of bad ones, would be helpful, as 
>would pointers to any good concise reference 
>material showing me how to go about doing this. 
>It is not required to be up and running until al least the end of the week ☺

About a year ago I installed a copy 
of  Confluence 
(http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence), a 
wiki/blog communication tool for use by those of 
in our library involved in the development of new 
projects and to collaboratively document some old 
ones.  I because aware of Confluence through an 
open source project I've been a part of for the 
past several years.  The product has been so 
successful I've had to recruit someone in our 
operations group to help manage user accounts, 
group, and answer questions about it.  We bought 
the enterprise edition (500 users) and consider it well worth it.


>We are a Windows 2000 shop although our servers run Windows Server 2003.
>
>Any advice or assistance would be appreciated. 
>If you like please reply off-list and I will 
>summarize if there’s interest in seeing results.
>
>TIA for all suggestions.
>Robin.
>
>
>Robin Boulton
>rboulton at linc.lib.il.us
>IT Manager
>(630) 584 0076 x 258
>St. Charles Public Library District
>  Cell:Â  (630) 918 8738
>St. Charles, IL 60174
>
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>http://www.stcharleslibrary.org/
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John Fereira
jaf30 at cornell.edu
Ithaca, NY