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Best Practices

Learn how the pros achieve higher productivity through enhanced collaboration.

• Attention Management - Reduce time wasted in the Inbox.


• CC to Wiki - Get around the curse of Reply-to-All.


• Collaborating on a non wiki page using a wiki page - Use the attachment feature to collaborate on presentation files, etc.


• Designing Spaces - Key considerations for creating new spaces.


• Developing a Public Blogging Strategy


• Distributed Document Review


• Gardening and Wiki gardening tips


• Index Pages - create starting points for navigation around topics of interest.


• Lightning Editing - how to co-edit a document with a collaborator


• Securing buy-in - getting others to shift perspectives on wikis


• Sparking participation at events


• Using the workspace as a document repository

Best Practices

Learn how the pros achieve higher productivity through enhanced collaboration
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  Attention Management
  > - Reduce time wasted in the Inbox


• 
  CC to Wiki
  >
  - Get around the curse of Reply-to-All.
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• 
  Collaborating on a non wiki page using a wiki page
  >
  - Use the attachment feature to collaborate on presentation files, etc.
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• 
  Designing Spaces
  >
  - Key considerations for creating new spaces.
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• 
  Developing a Public Blogging Strategy
  >


• 
  Distributed Document Review
  >


• 
  Gardening
  >
  and
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  Wiki gardening tips
  >


• 
  Index Pages
  >
  - create starting points for navigation around topics of interest.
  >


• 
  Lightning Editing
  >
  - how to co-edit a document with a collaborator
  >


• 
  Securing buy-in
  >
  - getting others to shift perspectives on wikis
  >


• 
  Sparking participation at events
  >


• 
  Using the workspace as a document repository
  >


• Doing a demo


• Create tagging structures - Develop a core list of tags for your wiki


• Wiki Structure - Create a page which outlines important elements of the wiki


• Stop creating Word documents - The first rule of integrating wikis effectively

See also Bonnes Pratiques for a chart of best practices and French translations.

• To link to other people’s calendars: In the Calendar tab ->
  Right click an open space -> New Calendar

• This brings up a “create new calendar” dialog box
  
  
  
  • Click the “remote” button and Next
  
  
  • Click the “WebDav” Button enter the location: https://www.box.net/dav/calendar/persons_name.ics
    (see the list)
  
  
  • If you want to change the name do so in the space provided. You
    can also change the background color for this calendar’s entries
  
  
  • Click Next
  
  
  • Click Finish

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