Community at Eclectic Tech, LLC

The internet is a perfect medium for creating community. The success of Wikipedia, Yahoo!Groups, blogging, podcasting, content management systems, and community portals shows a willingness of people to use a variety on online media to create communication for groups across the globe.

If you need tools for community portals, wikis, podcasting, blogging, or other forms of community, Eclectic Tech is ready to help out.

Glossary

Blogging

"Blog" is short for "web-log" or a website journal or diary, which is open to the perusal of others (whether via login or publicly available). Blogs have become, at times, a resource for the outpourings of corporate announcements and meanderings.

Community Portal

A website that allows member registration, and member contribution, public and private forum posting, news posting, shared calendars, and more.

Content Management System aka "CMS"

Any system that allows people to organize and edit website content without needing to know website coding.

Podcasting

Any online syndicated audio content (syndicated through RSS feeds). Eclectic Tech, LLC modified the news feed module of PmWiki to allow syndication of podcasts.

Wiki

From "Wiki-Wiki Web" (Hawaiian meaning "quick-quick web"). The most famous wiki is Wikipedia. Usually a collaborative open-edit website, allowing anonymous and/or non-anonymous posting. Can also act as a content-management-system if public and anonymous editing are restricted. Wikis are known for their ease-of-editing, fostering multiple-authored articles and texts. Eclectic Tech prefers PmWiki, but can install and template any Wiki software.

Yahoo!Groups

Yahoo!'s mailing list feature.