UCR - Prospects For Collaboration

Unregistered Carriers on 11/17/2009 - 1619
Unregistered Carriers on 11/18/2009 - 1609

Maine - 93.11%
Illinois - 92.44%

As luck would have it, Maine got swamped by 4 new carriers and registered one of them, so they took a little percentage hit while we managed to move ahead a tad. We now sit at .67% behind them. The plan comes together ...(;

But that's not why I called you here ....

My agency is starting to work with Microsoft Sharepoint, a giant collaboration tool/site. The capabilities are prodigious - and can be aimed at the outside (outside of my agency) world. This leads me to the concept of external collaboration (collaboration + outside world)and begs the question, "If we (UCR Administrators, UCR Board, NCSTS) could collaborate at a common site to do common things, what kinds of common things would we choose to collaborate on?". Pithy question.

Sharepoint can handle document storage, document versioning, offshoot Web sites, blogs, discussion forums (fora? fori? forae?) and, trust me on this, all kinds of other stuff. If we can figure out something to collaborate on, I'm guessing Sharepoint can accomodate us.

Over the next couple of weeks, I'm going to work up a couple of test things and demonstrate them via Live Meeting because we don't have external Sharepoint access yet ... it costs extra $$$. But I think the agency is willing to spend the money if we can demonstrate a legitimate use. So work with me on this, people.

And try to be mindful of what the late, great, granny-glass-wearin', kite-flyin', Constitution-signin', odometer-inventin' Ben ("It's all about the Benjamins") Franklin said:

We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.

Amen, brother!