Making sense of "Syndicated Collaboration" Export

@misc{citeulike:4946401, abstract = {This paper discusses the phenomenon of \&\#034;syndicated collaboration\&\#034;, which is the collaborative use of weblogs, wikis and news aggregator tools, enabled by open standard protocols like Rich Site Summary (RSS). Existing development trends and the collaborative potential of RSS-based technologies are analysed. The widespread use of these technologies indicates a shift from traditional groupware technologies towards an environment of loosely-coupled tools connecting continuously evolving communities of interest. Based on these considerations and the results of a workplace study we introduce the concept of an \&\#034;information hub\&\#034;, which represents a generalised approach to syndicated collaboration. Nexus, a prototype application which implements key features of the information hub concept is presented. Preliminary feedback on the use of Nexus leads to design considerations for the further improvement of both the information-hub concept and the Nexus prototype.}, author = {Rittenbruch, Markus and Mansfield, Tim and Cole, Luke}, citeulike-article-id = {4946401}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.15.3412}, keywords = {collaboration, reflist, thesis}, posted-at = {2009-06-24 18:31:00}, priority = {0}, title = {Making sense of \&\#034;Syndicated Collaboration\&\#034;}, url = {http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.15.3412} }

TY - ELEC ID - citeulike:4946401 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4946401 N2 - This paper discusses the phenomenon of "syndicated collaboration", which is the collaborative use of weblogs, wikis and news aggregator tools, enabled by open standard protocols like Rich Site Summary (RSS). Existing development trends and the collaborative potential of RSS-based technologies are analysed. The widespread use of these technologies indicates a shift from traditional groupware technologies towards an environment of loosely-coupled tools connecting continuously evolving communities of interest. Based on these considerations and the results of a workplace study we introduce the concept of an "information hub", which represents a generalised approach to syndicated collaboration. Nexus, a prototype application which implements key features of the information hub concept is presented. Preliminary feedback on the use of Nexus leads to design considerations for the further improvement of both the information-hub concept and the Nexus prototype. TI - Making sense of "Syndicated Collaboration" KW - collaboration KW - reflist KW - thesis AU - Rittenbruch, Markus AU - Mansfield, Tim AU - Cole, Luke UR - http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.15.3412 ER -