The "Crowd-Sourcing" Challenge

Fellow Researchers,

Good discussion today on our various goals and our challenges in finding the technology that will work best for us.

FIRST WE HAVE TO ASK THE RIGHT QUESTIONS -- right?!

The question I saw us asking today is, how do we create a good on line discussion of our project(s) -- one that allows for easy access and a free-flowing conversation, while allowing us also to accumulate and organize insights and information on set topics.

FIRST ANSWER: We link to a Google Document, as indeed we did.

NEXT CHALLENGE: The document provides a good overview, and we can continue to tweak it as needed. But if we want to go into detail we either need to create a very large cumbersome document or create a series of Google Docs, each one requiring that we create it and create links to it.

NEXT AVENUE OF INQUIRY: While continuing this blog and that original Google Document, let's explore OTHER WAYS of gathering and organizing information. Some possibilities:
-- I suggest that we check out these sites to see whether they would work for us:

* Google Sites
* Evernote
* Wikispaces

* Omeka

* Zoho

* Blackboard

BTW HOW IS THIS BLOG WORKING -- ADD A COMMENT IF YOU'VE READ THIS!