Analysis Phase

Step 1: Member's Needs (Kim, 2000, p. 10)

Understand your members:

-mixed gender but predominately female

-technical interests

-varied technical skills

-incoming students

-students trying to define specialization

Make a list of needs:

-definitions of informatics

-place to browse recommended Informatics courses, internships, and conferences

-place to read bio's of informatics professionals in the field

-place to network with informatics professionals in the field

-continuing education for informatics

-recommendations on career development for informatics

-place to contribute, write about experience with or knowledge of informatics

-place to discuss hot topics in informatics (found in journal articles)

Prioritize this list:

-place to browse recommended Informatics courses, internships, and conferences

-place to read bio's of informatics professionals in the field

-place to contribute, write about experience with or knowledge of informatics

-place to discuss hot topics in informatics (found in journal articles)

-recommendations on career development for informatics

Step 2: Owner's Goals

Understand your owners (running/ funding the online community):

-Dr. Blanchette

-Academic project

-Possible promotion for Informatics specialization

Their goals: How will you measure our wiki's success? What kind of results will you expect and how soon?

-provide a resource to define Informatics

-easy updates

-member sustainability (active participation)

Prioritize their goals

-provide a resource to define Informatics

-easy updates

-member sustainability (active participation)

Step 3: Master list

Compare and Consolodate goals:

Our wiki needs to be a resource of information, and also a place to hold regularly scheduled events. These events need to facilitate learning about Informatics, attract a critical mass, and help sustain active contribution to the wiki.

-provide a resource to define Informatics

-easy updates

-member sustainability (active participation)

-place to browse recommended Informatics courses, internships, and conferences

-place to read bio's of informatics professionals in the field

-place to contribute, write about experience with or knowledge of informatics

-place to discuss hot topics in informatics (found in journal articles)

-recommendations on career development for informatics