Break out: Collaboration tools - Peter Mechant

Collaboration tools & IBBT:

an ongoing research process

Peter Mechant, MICT/IBBT/UGent

Structure

• Sketch ‘the beginning’ and the activities leading

up to MyBBT.

• Explore the current use of MyBBT.

• Latest MyBBT-survey

• Google Analytics data

• Compare MyBBT with the preferences for other

tools for specific tasks

• Food for thought: some provoking statements

Overall satisfaction with MyBBT

Overall satisfaction with MyBBT features

Knowledge & use of MyBBT features

Comparing tools for specific tasks

Communication one-on-one

Communication one-to-many

Sharing information and resources

Co-writing on a document or paper

In the overview of project colleagues on the right, it would be good to add

the research group/company and WPs they are working in. Specifically for

new projects, you don't know everyone and then it is nice to have some

additional information. Also a clear overview of WP leaders might be a nice

add-on (Female, 26-30 years, Senior Researcher).

What we really need to run a project are mail groups and a fileserver, that's

it. IBBT should go back to mail groups in which mails behave exactly as

ordinary mails […]. It should turn MyBBT into a much simpler, much more

user friendly fileserver (Male, 36-40 years, Professor).

It seems that there are many features on MyBBT that I don’t know about,

so more information about the features would be good (Female, 20-25

years, Administrative or support function).

Some quotes …

In the overview of project colleagues on the right, it would be good to add

the research group/company and WPs they are working in. Specifically for

new projects, you don't know everyone and then it is nice to have some

additional information. Also a clear overview of WP leaders might be a nice

add-on (Female, 26-30 years, Senior Researcher).

More focus on social networking features ??

What we really need to run a project are mail groups and a fileserver, that's

it. IBBT should go back to mail groups in which mails behave exactly as

ordinary mails […]. It should turn MyBBT into a much simpler, much more

user friendly fileserver (Male, 36-40 years, Professor).

Keep it simple ??

It seems that there are many features on MyBBT that I don’t know about,

so more information about the features would be good (Female, 20-25

years, Administrative or support function).

What about media or software literacy ??

Some questions …

Peter Mechant

MICT, Ghent University