Time sinks and wiki development

Beth Kanter’s blog provides a link to a really useful article on contencious.com today. Its all about how to stop your blog being a time sink. click here

Yesterday I also put out a request on a NAVCA email group, to see if anyone else was using a WIKI in their organisation to help with organisation / administration.

I asked our software support company to install sa mediawiki on our server the week before last. Since then I’ve been adapting some wiki script with the aim of getting our meeting room diaries on the network.

I guess that working with the the title of ’Information Officer’  (plus the fact that I’m interested in pooters) makes it easier for me to do computer things than most other folk here. Also a background in elected office is prooving to have been really useful in understanding some of the issues around organisational development, which each IT development inside the organisation either makes easier or harder.

Today is also deadline day for me to get newsletter copy to our designer, so I’m finding lots of other things to do rather than knuckle down and produce copy –  is that the time already!