[esocialaction] Ways of working together

[Dearden, Andrew M]

Ways of working together



This workshop may be of interest to some of us from the perspective of using technology to collaborate on research. It's not
specifically about Technology and Social Action, but there may be lessons to learn here anyway.


Andy



-----Original Message-----
From: Sue Kerr [mailto:sue.kerr at singleimage.co.uk] 
Sent: 28 July 2005 14:31
To: c.r.roast at shu.ac.uk
Subject: Web Tools for EU Research Projects Seminar - 7 September 2005

Dear Dr Roast

It is under 6 weeks away until our Web Tools for EU Research Projects seminar 
will be held in Cambridge, UK on Wednesday 7 September 2005!

EU research projects share lots of information and involve joint working amongst 
organisations from many different countries. There are many software tools which 
can support them, from shared workspaces to resource planning and reporting tools, 
from electronic meetings to web content management. But which tools are effective 
for FP6 projects? Management tools for coordinating a construction project are 
rarely suitable for the more uncertain world of research. Software which requires 
extensive adaptation or web-authoring skills are poorly suited to short duration 
EU projects, where the emphasis must be on the research, not the support tools. 
Electronic meetings which can work in a highly structured environment may not 
lend themselves to creative collaboration amongst researchers.

At this seminar, several project coordinators and participants in FP6 projects 
will explain how they use these tools for a range of functions and what gave 
their consortia the greatest benefits. They will share their experiences of simple 
tools for sharing files and discussion fora, to more complex ones for research 
community building, for reporting project progress to the EU, and web-based video 
conferencing. 

There will be additional speakers describing shared workspaces, and six suppliers 
of web tools will also present their products and services.

For more information, please contact me.

If you no longer wish to receive details of our seminars or workshops, please 
be kind enough to advise my by return.

Kind regards
Sue

Sue Kerr
Singleimage Limited
3 Foundry Walk  St Ives  Cambridge  PE27 5FW  UK
ph +44 1480 497712  fax +44 1480 497714
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