austraLasia 1526
BoscoWiki is born - puts the 'we' in web to work
EAO: 13th April 2006 -- Easter seems an excellent
occasion
to announce new life. BoscoWiki is born! A new chapter, or
many new
chapters, once you see what a wiki is capable of, opens in
Bosconet.
In June of this year, Bosconet will be 14 years of age...or is it 15?
It depends on whether we take the 'beta' Bosconet or the version that
made Salesian history in 1992. It is probable that BoscoWiki also
makes Salesian history. It all depends whether or not somewhere
around the world
there is already a Salesian wiki in existence. If there is I
haven't
heard of it, and I'm in touch with these things in many parts of the
world these days. There certainly are Salesian blogs around -
Donboscoindia
site has one. But a
wiki? BoscoWiki may be the first of a new breed.
BoscoWiki brings a whole new collaborative
possibility to the EAO
Region. You can now treat those pages as your own - you can add
to
them, change them, start up new ones, 'fly a kite', work in a group,
practise your English, do whatever, really. The best way to find
out
what BoscoWiki is all about is to go in and take a look - then do
something with it.
A wiki is a simple concept which changes the whole
nature of
working with the web. It takes the 'WE' in web and puts it to
work. You are accustomed to 'looking' at a web page without being able
to do much more than click on a few links. With a wiki you can
add to it, change it, reorganise
it. And you only need to know how to type; nothing else. No
specialist knowledge whatsoever is required.
For the moment, BoscoWiki is completely open to
those who receive
austraLasia. For the time being you should keep this copy of
#1526 or bookmark the BoscoWiki homepage, because I do not intend
immediately to place this link on the Bosconet homepage. The idea
is to give Salesians and members of the Salesian Family in the region who receive or read austraLasia a chance to
play with and develop this instrument as a potentially powerful tool
for collaboration and teamwork.
BoscoWiki can be made available directly through
Bosconet at some stage,
though possibly by allowing those who know or have received a password
to enter it. These are decisions that can be made along the
way. The
important thing at this stage is to see if it can be useful to
people.
In particular you might look at the BoscoWiki Possibilities link in the
wiki. But the most important thing of all is that you try it out
and
give some thought as to how it could be useful for improving our
'apostolic passion', a term that is going to become increasingly part
of our everyday vocabulary over these coming two years! A GC26 page
could make some sense, then. Up to you.
austraLasia takes this
opportunity to wish all of its readers the
special blessings of the Easter Triduum with its many moods of
close-knit community, impending sadness, deep sorrow, temporary
nothingness, then irrepressible joy. JBF
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