Comments on: The Personal Research Portal: Web2ForDev http://ictlogy.net/20070608-the-personal-research-portal-web2fordev/ Information Society, Digital Divide, ICT4D Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:54:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Eric Gundersen http://ictlogy.net/20070608-the-personal-research-portal-web2fordev/comment-page-1/#comment-23924 Eric Gundersen Fri, 15 Jun 2007 13:42:16 +0000 http://ictlogy.net/20070608-the-personal-research-portal-web2fordev/#comment-23924 I love the idea of “personal research portals” to in essence let people have smarter “notebooks.” After seeing my friends start wikis when they went back to school to manage their ever evolving pile of research, I am convinced this could work for people in a professional setting. If I were to do it again, I would log all the research I did for masters thesis in a wiki and bookmark my sources in del.icio.us to make it publicly available. Then people could stumble upon it and either benefit from it or give me leads :). I’m spoiled now that my team has set up a Drupal (open source CMS) based intranet that has a wiki and an internal blog. Our next step is to get Google gears working so we can use the tools while we’re offline and then have them sync back up when we re-connect. I look forward to hearing your thoughts and feedback on the functionality we are building in the portals that we create for development agencies. I love the idea of “personal research portals” to in essence let people have smarter “notebooks.” After seeing my friends start wikis when they went back to school to manage their ever evolving pile of research, I am convinced this could work for people in a professional setting. If I were to do it again, I would log all the research I did for masters thesis in a wiki and bookmark my sources in del.icio.us to make it publicly available. Then people could stumble upon it and either benefit from it or give me leads :).

I’m spoiled now that my team has set up a Drupal (open source CMS) based intranet that has a wiki and an internal blog. Our next step is to get Google gears working so we can use the tools while we’re offline and then have them sync back up when we re-connect.

I look forward to hearing your thoughts and feedback on the functionality we are building in the portals that we create for development agencies.

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