NICHD Stories

Highlight several successful fellows in this area.

This could be as simple as emailing a couple of the wiki savvy students to request that they write a paragraph or two for the recruitment wiki.
Use the wiki as a tool for working on writing skills.
Students can communicate the conditions of their mentors' laboratories and find suitable replacement fellows.

Lab Notebook

Can be used for documenting experimental data
Controlled sharing of data
Cheaper cost per seat
Integrated with email, calendars, web, word, etc...
Customizable with Java, etc.
Wiki nodes and clusters
Integration with Jira

Collaboration

Controlled sharing of documents
Internal node for sharing sensitive information.
External node for working with external collaborators.
Classrooms and teaching
Podcasting

Communication

Dissemination of information
Transparency of government
Solicit feedback in a controlled environment

Virtual Conference

The wiki can be used for Posters!


		Posters are mostly seen at conferences and on laboratory walls. We could easily both photograph these posters en masse (think annual retreat)

Another idea might be to upload posters and presentations to the wiki for a "virtual retreat" that could be used for recruitment and publicity. Of course the real benefit is the ability for the fellow to share his presentation with the entire free world, or only those he gives permission to.

It would also serve as a fantastic recruitment tool. Prospective students could peruse the posters at the annual retreat and see what their potential predecessors have been working on.

I could easily create and organize a "retreat wiki" and create accounts for participants. We could allow participants to upload their documents and update their abstract titles and summaries as a back-up if nothing else. Fellows could create wiki pages for the conference, if they chose to do so.

This is also a great way to also improve on posters after the conference in light of critiques and to make up for half-baked presentations. I think you'll find the wiki is a great tool for teaching writing skills.

It's what all the writing professors rage for, so I know you'll like it once you dig in.

Eventually, some researchers may put presentations together entirely in the wiki. This isn't forcing researchers, because documents can also be simply uploaded to the wiki and immediately show up in searches and available as document downloads or converted into wiki pages.