WiAOC 2007: Webheads in Action Online Convergence

May 18-20, 2007

CONNECT Conversations on Networking, Education, Communities, and Technology

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Chaos Navigation Made Simple

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The Webheads in Action Online Convergence presents challenges as well as opportunities for all concerned. As Susanne Nyrop once famously pointed out, navigation in Webheads can appear as 'chaos navigation' (later, with more experience, she labeled it 'intutitive chaos navigation'). Indeed our convergence is a totally volunteer and collaborative effort and would be impossible to organize complete with live and asynchronous help without the efforts of many in the Webheads community of practice working continents apart with a number of freely available Web 2.0 tools. One of our goals in using so many tools is to raise our awareness of them and teach each other what works for us.

But patching together the work of many in this way, we realize we sacrifice some degree of organization. Some people find the result intriguing, stimulating, and even transformational. Others would prefer we would keep things simple and work through a one-click portal.

Unfortunately for those in the latter camp, this has not been our approach again this year (though greater familiarity with our Drupal portal might help us consolidate better next time). Meanwhile, the need for this page, which attempts to index some of these efforts by letting you know where you can go for help or information, or more importantly, where you can go to volunteer to help us.

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Free Registration

• Help with conference registration can be found here: http://www.webheadsinaction.org/help
• or here: http://wiaoc2007.pbwiki.com/registration

Before the conference:

• For Participants and Presentershttp://wiaoc2007.pbwiki.com/.
  • Dafne Gonzales and Dennis Oliver are developing a set of FAQ and Venue help pages here: http://wiaoc2007.pbwiki.com/.
  • Jeff has set up a Participant and Presenter discussion forum here: http://www.webheadsinaction.org/forum/47
• Especially for Presenters
  • We have set up a "Coaching Wall" here: http://www.webheadsinaction.org/node/155
    where presenters can write in questions and coaches will hopefully check in and answer them.
  • Presenters can get help through their session moderators by writing at the wiki here: http://www.webheadsinaction.org/node/201

During the conference

• We hope to provide live round-the-clock help in reception at Tapped In: http://www.tappedin.org, organized by Sedat.
• Get help accessing conference venues here: http://wiaoc2007.pbwiki.com/venue_help
• Help at Worldbridges
  • Pre-Convergence Orientation and Questionnaire: http://www.webheadsinaction.org/node/200
  • On-air status: What's streaming now at Worldbridges: http://www.worldbridges.net/node/3505
  • Help with using the Webheads in Action Chat room can be found here: http://www.webheadsinaction.org/help

Volunteer Here

We need volunteers to help in the following areas:

Before the conference:

Coaching for keynote speakers and presenters

• Sign up at the "Coaching Wall": http://www.webheadsinaction.org/node/155
• Password: Simply log in at the URL above
• Manager: Dennis Oliver
• Duties and expertise: We need for you to check the wall frequently and offer to help anyone who has requested assistance. Coaches need to be familiar with the tools the are offering to coach, or willing to work with the presenter to figure out the tool. Involves identifying presenters who need help and hooking them up with mentors one on one. Skills needed: interpersonal skills, ability to set up and manage a wiki, time to work with people and monitor emails

Session moderators for keynote speakers and presenters

• Sign up here: http://www.webheadsinaction.org/node/201
• Password: Simply log in at the URL above
• Manager: We need someone to manage this. Skills needed: interpersonal skills, ability to set up and manage a wiki, time to work with people and monitor emails
• Duties and expertise: You should introduce, chair, and conclude on time each session. Some familiarity with the online venue would be useful. Also, you might serve as contact person in case a presenter needs help with coaching or anything else before the time of his or her presentation. You wouldn't necessarily be the coach, but you would be point person in finding one.

Live online Helpdesk support at TappedIn

• Sign up here: http://tappedinhelpdesk.pbwiki.com/
• Password: volunteer
• Manager: Sedat Akayoglu
• Duties and expertise: You are only expected to know what is happening at WiAOC at the time you signed up, and what is coming up in the next couple of hours. You should be able to tell people how to access those "right now" and upcoming events. You would not be expected to troubleshoot or problem-solve, but you might have some idea who to contact for more help. No technical expertise is assumed. You are simply a friendly helpdesk person who knows more than people who drop by TappedIn knowing very little about WiAOC and need assistance getting oriented.

Feedback
What else do we need to do to? We need a lot of people to look at what we've done and provide feedback. Email webteam@webheadsinaction.org with your suggestions.

During the conference:

Bloggers
If you create blog posts or any other artifacts using Web 2.0 tools, please tag your posts and artifacts wiaoc2007 so we can aggregate them as we go.

In collaboration with:

Mirror Sites:

In order to be accessible to as many as possible throughout the world, this page is available at:

• http://wiaoc.org and click on Help; or ...
  • http://www.vancestevens.com/papers/evonline2002/wiaoc2007help.htm
  • http://www.geocities.com/vance_stevens/papers/evonline2002/wiaoc2007help.htm
• http://help.wiaoc.org
  • http://www.prof2000.pt/users/vstevens/papers/evonline2002/wiaoc2007help.htm

More shortcuts, in place of www in http://www.wiaoc.org - try:

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January 14, 2007

Last updated:May 12, 2007 18:00