The Wiki & theDomestic Abuse

Foundation

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Introduction The Domestic Abuse Foundation was

established in 2008 by Sally McGregor, a inspirational victim and survivor of domestic abuse.

DAF is a non for profit foundation and soley exists from donations

DAF is based in Melbourne, Australia and since Feburary 2008, now has coverage Australia wide.

DAF porvides free services including shelter, counselling, legal and medical advice to all victims of domestic abuse

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Vision Statement To promote the eradication of domestic

violence across Australia To ensure the saftey of survivors and

provide them with access to services To hold offenders accountable for the

violence they perpetrate To encourage better policy surrounding

impact on survivors of domestic abuse

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Mission Statement Provide a voice for survivors of domestic

violence Change societies attitudes that promote

domestic violence Ensure that all people have knowledge and

access to all services

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An identified need Recently is has come to the attention of DAF

management that current code of standards, specifically in the area of councelling, are outdated.

Therefore, a small internal team of staff members has been established to develop a new custom set of ethical standards, for the use with cliental of DAF.

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DAF ECCD Team The ethical code of conduct development

team Sophie- Team Leader Christian- Technician Manager Eli- Project- Research Manager Michael- Quality Manager

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Quality ManagerResearch ManagerTeam Leader

Tour of DAF Wiki Enter DAF wiki www.wikispaces.com

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Aims and Objectives To provide qualitative foundations to the

staff at DAF surrounding the implementation of new set of ethical standards.

To keep all DAF staff Australia wide informed of current ethical standards and changes been made.

Only the development team can edit the Wiki, all staff Australia wide can view and read the Wiki

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Wiki ProgressWeek 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4

First group meeting

Task Allocations made

Ethics posted on Wiki

Communications page created

The Domestic Abuse Foundation (DAF) and Ethical Standards was chosen

Virtual Team meeting 1

Literature Review made

Oral presentation

DAF positions were assigned

Company mission and aims developed

Virtual Team meeting 2

Team meeting 2

DAF Wiki Literature researched

Need for communications page

Finalisations of roles in oral presentation

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Why a Wiki? This short Youtube demonstrates

advantages and disadvantages of the Wiki for information collaboration

http:://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tb9nCOCSvR8

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Disadvantages If not made private;

Open to SPAM and Vandalism Information privacy could be compromised

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Internet and electricity connections required Could become disorganised

Advantages Anyone can edit Easy to use Instantaneous Virtual Tracking progress made easy Don’t have to be technical Custom made structures

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Professional Literature

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Evaluation Usefulness of Wiki Communication problems Lack of literature Deadlines Understanding the Wiki

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References

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Antioch University New England Library 2006, Antioch University New England Library Staff Training and Support Wiki, viewed 14 July 2008, http://www.seedwiki.com/wiki/antioch_university_new_england_library_staff_training_and_support_wiki/this_wiki?wpid=225709.

Baumeister, J, Reutelshoefer, J & Puppe F 2007, ‘KnowWE – community-based knowledge capture with knowledge wikis’, K-CAP’07, Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Knowledge Capture, Whistler, Canada, 28–31 October 2007, ACM, New York, pp. 189–190, viewed 14 July 2008, http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1298448.

Barsky, E & Giustini, D 2007, ‘Introducing web 2.0: Wikis for health librarians’, Journal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association, vol. 28, pp. 147–150, viewed 14 July 2008, http://pubs.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/jchla/jchla28/c07-036.pdf.

Fichter, D 2006, ‘Using wikis to support online collaboration in libraries’, Information Outlook, vol. 10, no. 1,  pp. 30–31.

Thank you for your time

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