E L S U A ~ A KM Blog Thinking Outside The Inbox by Luis Suarez

WikiMatrix Wiki Feature Comparison – Compare them all !

I am actually quite surprised that not so many people have been weblogging about this particular topic already. We do have some exceptions though with folks such as Nancy White, over at WikiMatrix / Wiki Feature Comparison, or Harry Fuecks with Wiki Comparison or even Phil Windley on Finding the right wiki software. Nevertheless, I was hoping to read some more than what I eventually found out. And main reason for that is the fact that everyone seems to be talking about Wikis but yet not many people have found this online resource interesting enough to talk about when they should have actually done it all along.

Yes, folks, I am talking about WikiMatrix. A relatively new online resource that would allow you to compare different Wiki engines to see which one would be the easiest yet more powerful to use. So eventually you would just need to go into the web site itself, select the number of Wikis you would like to compare and click on the Compare button. After you have done that it will start providing you with a table with all of the different Wikis you wanted to match against a number of different key features / options. Click here for an example eventually, where you will be able to see the 21 Wikis compared with one another.

In principle, the great power from that particular web site is that it would allow you to display in a single click all of the different features you may have been wondering about all along; and in this case instead of just having to go with the trial and error and see if you would be able to use whatever the Wiki engine, now you have got the opportunity to compare them all and from that make a much better, and educated, selection as to which one is going to become your Wiki of choice that you will continue to use from there onwards. Then if that Wiki meets both of your needs and your requirements I would think you would be ready to start setting one up for rather your team or your community.

And since everybody seems to know how much I am in favour of Wikis as probably one of the most powerful collaborative tools for remote teams / communities out there in order to continue providing the best scenario for offline knowledge sharing I think I know now where I should be pointing folks to whenever they would need this info. Pretty handy, for sure, and very easy to get the information you need. So Kudos to the WikiMatrix developers as it is offerings like this one that would hopefully help increase communication within a group using that new way of collaborative tools, i.e. Wikis. Worth while a bookmark in del.icio.us, don’t you think ?

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San Bartolome de Tirajana Seen from Pozo de las Nieves

Last week I shared over here a number of different pictures related to a recent trip I did with a couple of good friends of mine passing by Degollada de las Yeguas and further on checking out Risco Blanco. And today I thought I would share with you the second part of the trip where we went, on the same day, to the highest mountain of the island (Pozo de las Nieves) to take some spectacular pictures from a lovely village called San Bartolomé de Tirajana.

We were lucky to some extent because although we were not able to take any pictures from such wonderful places as Roque Nublo and Roque Bentaiga, we still got the very rare case of capturing some from San Bartolomé when in most cases we would have had visibility problems as it might get covered with clouds while looking down from the top of the mountain, but that day it was just amazingly clear that way as we managed to see a fantastic view which I am sure you will be able to get a glimpse of by checking out the following three pictures I have attached below and get an idea of what it really looks like.

San Bartolomé de Tirajana

San Bartolomé de Tirajana

San Bartolomé de Tirajana

Stunning, right ? Well, there are some more over at my Flickr account, along with some more from Risco Blanco. So you may want to take a quick look and enjoy them, just as much as we did taking them. Quite spectacular, to say the least !

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Should Access to Information Technology Be a Human Right?

As you may have seen / read already all over the place Habitat Jam is now closed already and ready to move on to the next stage, which is engaging further into the different conversations that have been taking place over the course of the 72 hours that it last. I have been able to participate on some of those different discussions and also to share a thought or two of my own in a couple of the forums and I can honestly say that if it was flagged as the event of the year it didn’t fall short of the expectations, for sure. Thousands and thousands of visits and further comments have populated the event throughout and it is now time to let it sink, digest it and pick things further from there on to the next level.

There have been lots of discussions that I thoroughly enjoyed following up on but there has been one in particular that grabbed my attention from moment one and that was the one on Should Access to Information Technology Be a Human Right? What a fantastic discussion, folks! I am sure you will be reading it eventually but I just wanted to let you know my two cents worth of comments as I feel it is worth while mentioning elsewhere and engage into further conversations.

While I have followed the thread I kept on thinking that if that same Jam article would have been shared a few years back, like five years or so, we would all be agreeing with that particular statement where we would consider access to IT as a right for a few and nothing else. However, things have changed a lot since that particular time. We now have got the possibility that having access to IT is becoming more and more inexpensive and as such it takes no effort to get up and running and have access to different online resources, which in most cases would be available for free but still with the quality we would be asking for to engage further with it. Yes, folks, that Web 2.0 we have all been dreaming about (And weblogged about for quite some time, too !) and which is making the Internet much more resourceful and interesting to participate in the actual conversations than ever before.

And it looks like we may have done that already, because if before we didn’t take for granted having access to IT as a right, we certainly are taking it for granted now. And that is what Web 2.0 does to you. Accessibility to the information with a very inexpensive method has now become the common rule and although it has been mentioned how even then most people may still not have the possibility of having access to those some online resources it would be a wonderful opportunity for local governments, specially, to start fostering the creation of different IT Centres with the right level of equipment and which would allow those with the least possibilities to have access to the Information Highway to then make it happen and eventually help them become self sufficient. Those locally sponsored centres could very well be the ones that would help shape our short-, medium- and long-term future by allowing the highest number of people possible have access to the right information at the right time and with the right context. Because, after all …

Knowledge Is Power

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