On 2018-05-29 12:39, Ed Leafe wrote:
On May 29, 2018, at 11:23 AM,
[email protected] wrote:
The Corporate gig has tasked me with looking into a way for several
similar organizations to communicate and share with each other things
are the related to the success of all of them; a collaborative sharing
of ideas, best practices, information, etc. to help the (healthcare)
product as a whole.
I have advised against a listserve as I don't feel that's friendly
enough for sharing materials/files/stories. I'm believing a forum
would be best.
Slack! It's the answer to everything!!
Seriously, though, there are a lot of things to consider. Is the team
co-located? Spread across different offices? Different time zones?
Since you mention several organizations, I will assume that they are
geographically disperse; in such cases, some form of asynchronous
communication is best. Otherwise, people will miss out on things
because they are in a different time zone. Email is great for async
communication, but hard to use as a reference document. Wikis are
accessible, but suffer from bit rot. I prefer to use GitHub, assuming
that people have ability to handle the basics of git. You can write
docs using ReStructured Text (.rst), and view them on GitHub in their
rendered form. For an example, see the style guide for the OpenStack
project I work on (Nova):
https://github.com/openstack/nova/blob/master/HACKING.rst. After you
see that, click the 'Raw' button on the top right to see the original
.rst file.
One of the nice things is that it is easy to update the doc using pull
requests. These can be reviewed and merged as needed. This allows
teams to collaborate easily, and helps ensure that a consistent style
is used for all docs. You might also consider GitHub Pages
(https://pages.github.com/) for a more website-y look.
Here's something we found today in our searching; a nice "18 best tools
for online collaboration" :
https://www.creativebloq.com/design/online-collaboration-tools-912855
My colleague is liking what she's seeing about Yammer, a Microsoft
product. Apparently we do have some Microsoft servers here (although I
haven't researched it fully yet; maybe we could host this in "The Cloud"
too).
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