Here's some very anecdotal data from people involved in CrisisCamps around
the country about which collaborative tools they'd found useful over the
past couple of weeks.
Wikis: used second-most, after phones; reviewed most positively.
SJ
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Subject: [CrisisCamp Coordinators] Quick recap on comms tools so far Date:
Mon, 25 Jan 2010 08:05:19 -0800 From: Jeremy Johnstone
<jstone@rhok.org><jstone@rhok.org> To:
crisiscamp-coordinators(a)googlegroups.com
"Negative" = voted 1 or 2 for the tool
"Positive" = voted 3 or 4 for the tool
Twitter -- Neg: 11% / Pos: 47%
Mailing Lists -- Neg: 12% / Pos: 62%
Google Groups -- Neg: 14% / Pos: 63%
Atrium -- Neg: 34% / Pos: 22%
IRC -- Neg: 26% / Pos: 52%
Wiki -- Neg: 13% / Pos: 71%
Google Wave -- Neg: 50% / Pos: 16%
Phone -- Neg: 17-26% / Pos: 48-69%
Skype -- Neg: 10% / Pos: 58%
Will send out more detailed stats later, but wanted to get those numbers
into the hands of decision makers asap.
-Jeremy