This is a copy of a post I have made to the TiddlySpace Google group, but I thought I would copy it here, as it seems important.
For TiddlyWikists who don't know about TiddlySpace.com, this is a great server-side version of TW, based on TiddlyWeb, that enables the sharing and incorporating of whole wikis or individual tiddlers in one another's wikis; fruit for anyone who likes sharing and combining information creatively, or just having an online (but downloadable) wiki - with all kinds of other wonderful functions. To date it has been magnificently supported by BT, preserving the intellectual property of the open source TW community but providing servers and under the bonnet servicing to incubate the relatively mature and stable platform that we now enjoy. However, there is currently uncertainty about where it is going next... *So...* I thought it might be helpful to start a thread in which people using TS briefly give an account of how they are using TS, and what value that use has - in market terms, or in terms of "social capital", or for that matter aesthetic value. TS has been an example of an extraordinary flowering of creativity and the creation of "value", but perhaps as is the way so often, what has been less well covered are simple accounts of HOW it is providing value. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ I would highlight five main areas of value in TiddlySpace that I rely on (amongst many others) . 1. The AMBIT project (http://ambit.tiddlyspace.com) is an internationally recognised rewriting of the rulebooks about how you develop, evidence, and disseminate innovative working methods for teams addressing the complicated needs of highly disadvantaged and excluded youth with multiple concurrent problems (mental health, school exclusion, offending, drug problems, etc). We have over 70 teams trained in the core treatment method, each with their own adaptable local version of the shared common core (using the TS principle of "inclusion"), so that local innovations in practice are shared at lightspeed across nearly 1000 workers spread across the UK (and shortly Geneva and the States and elsewhere) and can be accessed at street level via mobile phones, tablets or laptops. We won the Guardian/Virgin Business Media "Innovation Nation" prize for collaboration in 2012 and have had numerous academic publications and international presentations on our use of this approach (see http://tiddlymanuals.tiddlyspace.com for links to all the manuals). 2. Another treatment ("mentalization based treatment for families) also uses this approach to the development of treatment manuals as living, growing, developing entities (http://mbtf.tiddlyspace.com) - this gets visits from all over the world as trainings in this method of working are regularly delivered internationally. 3. I have used TiddlySpace as my note taking/analysis database for the chapters I wrote for a giant critical review of all treatment trials in Child Psychiatry that is due to be published later this year (2nd Edition "What works for whom: a critical review of treatments for children and adolescents by Fonagy, Cottrell, Bevington, Glaser and Phillips. pub Guilford press) 4. I use TiddlySpace as a personal project organiser and "thought nursery" ( http://dickon.tiddlyspace.com) and can think of no equivalent service that would do this as well. 5. I have used TiddlySpace to host a band website for my otherwise non-coding sons - as much as a teaching exercise for them as for a place to showcase their (I am biased) great heavy folk ( http://fromthewoods.tiddlyspace.com) It would be little short of a disaster to lose TS, and I do hope that collectively we can shout as fluently as possible about the extraordinary flexibility and uniqueness of this resource. all good wishes, Dickon Bevington -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
