News:A new web site fully dedicated to the AMI@Work Communities



You have probably and hopefully been used to visiting the MOSAIC web site which provides the AMI@Work communities with shared workspaces and a lot of valuable information. Since February 2005, when the COMIST project started, we have initiated a task force to develop a new web site fully dedicated to the AMI@Work communities that could provide more collaboration opportunities, better support for members’ interactions and more visibility of active members as shown in the following web page prototype screenshot. First of all, this new web site will provide you with all the information you have been used to find on the MOSAIC web site but in a more dynamic way: all communitiy members will be able to edit almost every page. As a result, community leaders and members will not only have an easy way to update the pages but will also be able to make architectural changes to the site.

Secondly, all research topics, which have been defined by the AMI@Work communities and used for classifying papers submitted to the AMI@Work Forum Day, will be included in each member’s profile options and linked to the wiki part of the new web site where each research topic will have to be described. It means we should be able to connect communities’ members through the concepts they are using, which will open a new world of collaboration opportunities to explore. We are already excited by seeing where it will lead us.

Thirdly, there will be community tools such as blogs and polls but also new tools to explore potential connections that could stimulate creativity and spur innovation.

We plan to present and discuss this new web site, fully dedicated to the AMI@Work communities, during the COMIST workshop to be held in Rome on 6 December 2005, and to announce it during the annual EsoCE-Net Industry Forum, that will be held also in Rome the day before on 5 December 2005 (see the Next Coming Events page), as we see it as one of the on-line instruments that could increase significantly interpersonal productivity. We do believe it could also stimulate creativity and spur innovation among communities members as well through the "people-concepts networking"–centric approach as soon as we will have the "topics-map" navigation instrument illustrating navigation principles within connections among people through the concepts they are using. For sure, we still have some more work to carry on for the new website to be complete but at the same time it is very exciting and stimulating to explore this new world of on-line collaborative creativity and innovation.