del-a

Deliverable A is now finished and submitted. I love researching; you start with one idea, but you never know where you'll end up. I'm convinced that for every crazy topic you can think of, someone's published a paper or even held a conference on it. In my research for this deliverable, I even saw several papers on the most effective online dating strategies, the use of friends lists on Facebook, and lots of other random topics. That's going to be really interesting to look at in the future. Will folks in future decades look at what we've researched and published, and think "were they really so desperate to publish something that they resorted to that?" Or will it all be old news? Hmmm...maybe I should study anthropology.

MMIS 621 topic - Del-a

I've been letting the various topics percolate in the back of my mind for a bit now, and I think I've decided to go with #9 - "the usefulness of groupware for managing projects especially in relation to workflow (wikis here too)." I don't expect to put a lot of focus on wikis in particular, since there are so many options for groupware out there these days, but they are one important type of group support system. I'm also thinking particularly about geographically diverse project teams, since the idea of people working together from all over the country and the world fascinates me.