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Not only do consulting bodies need someone to write a report on the consultation, but also consulted groups often need to put together a document responding to a consultation. In both cases, it helps if a group can be asked to develop their solution and write it up in a report. With computer software running on a server, several people can work on the same document at the same time, writing different parts of it, then editing each other's work.
 
Not only do consulting bodies need someone to write a report on the consultation, but also consulted groups often need to put together a document responding to a consultation. In both cases, it helps if a group can be asked to develop their solution and write it up in a report. With computer software running on a server, several people can work on the same document at the same time, writing different parts of it, then editing each other's work.
  
**Not only do consulting bodies need someone to write a report on the consultation, but also consulted groups often need to put together a document responding to a consultation.
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*[[Blogs]] can be used to collect individual pieces of writing.
**With computer software running on a server, several people can work on the same document at the same time, writing different parts of it, then editing each other's work.
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==Wikiwiki pages==
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A wikiwiki web page (or wiki for short) can be edited by anyone. So groups of people can work on the same pages, each developing and correcting each others work (a lot quicker than circulating word processing documents).  
  
http://wiki.e-consultation.org/show_image.php?id=58
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Examples:
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*[http://dowire.org/wiki/Main_Page DoWire.org - Democracies Online - Best practices wiki]
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*This guide
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*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikipedia], a wikiwiki encyclopaedia
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**[http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/04/18/wales_sanger_interviews/ editing wars on wikipedia]
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*[http://wiki.defra.gov.uk/WikiHome/EnvironmentContract DEFRA's wiki site] intended to let anyone edit a model environmental contract between citizens and government.
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**[http://wiki.defra.gov.uk/WikiHome/EnvironmentContract?revision=159 an edited version] after [http://5thnovember.blogspot.com/ Guido Fawkes] and his 'co-conspirators piled in.
  
Consultees collaborating to write and edit documents.
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When there is strong disagreement, wikiwiki sites can suffer from editing wars, as people keep changing pages and others keep changing them back. But if a group has already resolved their differences, they can work well.
  
*Weblogs (blogs)
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==Report writing systems==
**a blog is an on-line journal that can be read on a web site. The author can easily add new diary entries. Often readers can post comments on each journal entry.
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Researchers have developed tools to help people collaborate on reports, even when they strongly disagree.
**[http://readmyday.co.uk/blogs/ Civic Leadership Weblog Project - Councillors' Blogs]
 
**[http://www.e-consultation.org/wordpress/ creating your own blogs system]
 
*Wikiwiki pages
 
**a wikiwiki web page (or wiki for short) can be edited by anyone. So groups of people can work on the same pages, each developing and correcting each others work (a lot quicker than circulating word processing documents). There is even a wikwiki encyclopaedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page" Wikipedia].
 
**[http://www.dowire.org/new_index.php DoWire.org - Democracies Online]
 
**edit a wiki page here: ((QUB|QUB)); ((LYIT|LYIT))
 
 
*[http://www.wagenvoort.net/grass/introduction.php GRASS] (Group Report Authoring Support System)
 
*[http://www.wagenvoort.net/grass/introduction.php GRASS] (Group Report Authoring Support System)
 
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**developed by Aldo de Moor for his Ph.D., where it was used by loggers and environmentalists to co-write a report on forestry policy for British Columbia
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**makes differences explicit, rather than trying to force a consensus
  A collaborative writing method 
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**on each issue, there are several competing positions each written by a group of participants
  - with computer software running on a server
 
  - several people can work on the same document at the same time
 
  - writing different parts of it, then editing each other's work
 

Latest revision as of 10:57, 8 December 2006

Not only do consulting bodies need someone to write a report on the consultation, but also consulted groups often need to put together a document responding to a consultation. In both cases, it helps if a group can be asked to develop their solution and write it up in a report. With computer software running on a server, several people can work on the same document at the same time, writing different parts of it, then editing each other's work.

  • Blogs can be used to collect individual pieces of writing.

Wikiwiki pages

A wikiwiki web page (or wiki for short) can be edited by anyone. So groups of people can work on the same pages, each developing and correcting each others work (a lot quicker than circulating word processing documents).

Examples:

When there is strong disagreement, wikiwiki sites can suffer from editing wars, as people keep changing pages and others keep changing them back. But if a group has already resolved their differences, they can work well.

Report writing systems

Researchers have developed tools to help people collaborate on reports, even when they strongly disagree.

  • GRASS (Group Report Authoring Support System)
    • developed by Aldo de Moor for his Ph.D., where it was used by loggers and environmentalists to co-write a report on forestry policy for British Columbia
    • makes differences explicit, rather than trying to force a consensus
    • on each issue, there are several competing positions each written by a group of participants