First Full Day on Course

Really enjoyed the Saturday session. I liked the session on website planning. I'm a bit Neanderthal on project management as I come from a background that tends to say "you know what you have to do, get on with it". I was told on a management course in the early 1980's that Management Consultancy was born in the late 40's when somebody suggested to the president of General Motors that it might be a good idea to write down a list of things to do and then give them priorities. I'm starting a website on "Good Web Design" at pmwebdiploma.wetpaint.com. I've chosen to use a wiki at this point as they're ideal for shared editing and updating as things progress (a blog is linear in nature, so less useful).By the end of the project, it might end up as a dedicated section on my own web -but one has to start somewhere. Wikis also allow you to have To Do lists, priorities &c. so they make a good management tool. For anyone reading this who is not familiar with wikis they are multi-contributor websites where allowed users can edit and update web content in a shared manner. They are great for sharing know-how and accumulating information. The most famous wiki is wikipedia. The drawback of wikis is that you don't always know who is the expert so they can actually contain incorrect information. There is much debate on the internet as to how reliable wikipedia is and indeed if there is a way of ensuring its accuracy without breaking the fundemental nature of what a wiki is. The good news for Nick is that wikipedia isn't owned by Google. If anyone wants to contribute to my web diploma wiki, create an account and request edit permissions.