If you haven't seen the news, Many-to-Many is celebrating their one year anniversary. At the same time, they have created a Socialtext *Space* called the Many-to-Many Space. This is my first exposure to Socialtext space. Fun to explore! I'm trying out the introductory tour now.
OK. I've done the intro tour - that took about 3 minutes. Then I nosed around and found a weblogs section with a just started post that Ross Mayfield had created and plans to post on Many-to-Many: Open Post. I tried my hand at writing some commentary there. It was hard in some ways because I am so used to blogging and saying I. On this fancy wiki, it didn't make sense to use the I word at least not if this is going to be a post on Many-to-Many.
Here's one result of all this. I'm learning better the benefits of and how to use a Socialtext Space and, more generally, a wiki. Clearly, I'll need to participate more and lurk a bit to really get it.
I also created a personal page called Janet Tokerud because Ross requested that contributors to his M2M post list our names as links at the bottom. Well, what good does a link do if there's nothing in it? That led to my double-clicking my name link back in the post so that I could put something on the Janet Tokerud page.
I had seen Ross' page earlier so went back to it and copy and pasted it into my page as a guide. I then replaced a link to his picture with a link to mine and replaced his links to his blogs and email with my blogs and email address. It seemed easier to copy Ross than to RTFM. I was being lazy. There was a wiki punctuation help link right beneath the editing window.
Somehow that page wound up as a separate *post* over in the weblogs Recent Changes area and I don't didn't know how to get it out of there so I left a message in my personal page about this issue and requested that if someone knows knew how to take my personal page out as a post to please do so.
As Many-to-Many is one of my favorite reads and I was curious about Socialtext, it was a no-brainer to play with this new space. I wonder what else I will learn if I stick around?