austraLasia
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The conversation
has begun - let it continue!
ROME: 17th
April 2006 -- The first brave individuals have found their way into
BoscoWiki and begun to add their comments, additional information. This is
a 'conversation' that is to be wholeheartedly encouraged for the benefit of the
Region. It is, after all, a new opportunity - the opportunity to share
ideas and to animate in an easy, region-wide fashion. The audience is only
that of the Salesian Family since the BoscoWiki address is only known to those
who read and receive austraLasia (and the address is not replicated in the
Bosconet version of this news).
The Salesian community in
Darkhan, Mongolia, has added some additional information to #1528 on new
Catholics at Easter, so you might want to check that out on the austraLasia page
of BoscoWiki. Someone has also asked a question of a technical nature, and
another has offered comment on the news over these last couple of days including
the sudden death of Fr Valentin de Pablo.
A 'resources'
page has been added. Requests come through austraLasia on a daily
basis for this or that resource, and of course you may continue to do that, and
these resources, if in existence, will be indicated, forwarded, whatever.
But here too, a change of mentality offered by wiki technology can benefit
everyone. Your question may be someone else's question and more to the
point, with 1500 very active SDB members in the Region, as well as several
thousand others from other groups in the Salesian Family, there's a good chance
that the answer to your question will come much more quickly and much more
effectively from someone else, once people are in the habit of regularly
checking BoscoWiki for new items - the 'recent changes' or even better, the
'history' pages will give you any and every item added. But then there's
also the wonderful reality that around the region, these active members are
producing good resources for local use - why not share them? If you have
them in digital form and available for download somewhere, put the URL (the
link) up on BoscoWiki. Just remember that you need to prefix a web link
with http//: as well as the www. In other words, we need the full
link.
One final comment - don't worry too much about
putting something in the wrong place or getting your language wrong. The
beauty of a wiki is that if anyone else thinks it's in the wrong place they can
move it, or if they think your English needs tidying up, they can tidy it up!
Then again, if you want to write in Vietnamese, or Chinese, do so! Someone
will understand you, though not everyone!
Should a group
from the Salesian Family see the obvious benefits of BoscoWiki for their
'internal' use, they have two possibilities - one is to add themselves as a
group in the side bar. And rather than just adding themselves as a page,
they can actually add themselves as a group by clicking the 'edit' sidebar and
typing, for example for the Salesian Cooperators, [[Coops/Coops.Homepage]] which
will create a Cooperators' Group with its own homepage (don't forget to
save). Then if someone goes into the Cooperator's Homepage - to which
something sensibly needs to be added, a word of welcome, etc. - when they add
another page, it refers itself to the Coop homepage automatically, rather than
to the BoscoWiki homepage. The group can leave it all open for everyone
else to hop in and take a look. The other possibility is that they can close it
off to only Cooperators. That could be done by you yourselves, or you can ask
the BoscoWiki administrator to do that for you, since some may be unsure of how
to achieve that. It's up to you. The possibilities for use are
endless. Over to you.
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