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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AustraLasia is an email service for the Salesian Family of Asia Pacific. It also functions as an agency for ANS based in Rome. For queries please contact admin@bosconet.aust.com For RSS feeds, subscribe to www.bosconet.aust.com/RSS/rssala.xml
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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AustraLasia is an email service for the Salesian Family of Asia Pacific. It also functions as an agency for ANS based in Rome. For queries please contact admin@bosconet.aust.com For RSS feeds, subscribe to www.bosconet.aust.com/RSS/rssala.xml
