WEB PORTALS
A web portal is a website with the single purpose for visitors to gain information from a range of different sources at the one location. Businesses use portals as a collaboration tool to better communicate with employees within the organization.
Portals use a centralized application linked to other applications within the same organization, which can share information across all these applications. People within an organization who use one application can gain access to another application from this one central application.
With this sharing of information across different applications, communication can be rapid allowing for collaboration to occur between different people using different application working together in varies groups within the business2.
MAIL
Mail is probably the oldest form of asynchronous collaboration while still in use has been overtaken by faster ways of delivering information in the last 10 years or so. Unlike digital communication like email, mail or snail mail, can be delivered as small packages or letters destined for local, nation or international distribution taking overnight to days, whereas email is delivered instantaneous.
The problem using mail as a form of collaborative communication is that it isn’t instant, because in modern business time is money. However, mail is still used (for jurisdictions and etiquette reasons) if documents need to be delivered in large packages such as large detailed drawings or particular samples (carpet, tiles, woods, materials etc) for a design, and this can’t be achieved through emails.
If this is the case, then mail can be an effective form of collaborative communication, be able to view and examine technical details or samples more closely and effectively making better decisions. This can’t be achieved as a soft copy via an email attachment.
Even though this form of communication is not a modern way in the past it was the only form of collaborative communication2.
References
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mail viewed on 21st March 2008
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_portal viewed on 21st March 2008
Monday, March 31, 2008
Week 2 – Asynchronous communication: Submission blog
Asynchronous communication is one form of collaborative communication, whereby communication between two people or more, two companies or a group of people is not instant. Examples of asynchronous communication are facsimiles machines, blogs, emails and forums.
FACSIMILE (FAX)
A facsimile machine is a communication device that scans documents digitally through telephone lines then prints them out on another facsimile machine 1.
Previously faxes were used more often then mail as they would be received instantly saving time and money. However, faxes have decreased as emails are becoming the preferred method of instant communication. If you have access to an internet fax, email or a Web browser, faxes via the internet can produce good facsimiles. They work much the same way as a fax, but they send and receive documents via the internet as a PDF or TIFF file through emails and requires no phone line 2.
BLOGS
Blogs are a new form of asynchronous communication courtesy of faster digital technology allowing users to share opinions on particular subjects or events.
Businesses use internal blogs to enhance collaboration between the employees or externally such as marketing known as corporate blogs3. During 2006 the number of large companies using corporate blogs increased from 35% to 70% 4.
Companies who set up internal blogs will discover that it’s simple and cost effective creating an atmosphere where employees participate in the company’s future vision by expressing new ideas, through debates creating better participation and spontaneous collaboration in a team. These create greater outcomes and objectives for the business 5.
However, some people consider blogging not an effective collaboration tool, most notably Nancy Garman stating in her article ‘Blogs, Collaboration & Community’ that the use of blogs is a self-publishing phenomenon where individuals publish their own content, rather than as a handy collaboration tool which have been tagged as helping in the business environment. Nancy indicates that blogs may help to enhance communication between employees but this certainly doesn’t make it collaborative, but also has stated that a collaborative blog can’t create a community and a community can’t ensure a successful collaborative blog 6.
External blogs are used so anyone outside the company to allow them to interact with the target markets, by creating a more personal interaction though promotions of products and in turn creates a collaboration of ideas between the client and business 7.
Types of Corporate Blogs
EMAILS
Email or Electronic mail is an electronic communication system that allows the user to store, forward and send messages from one computer to another instantly, allowing for better workplace collaborations.
The use of emails can be traced back to 1965 when multiple users could communicate between one another via a time-sharing mainframe computer but in 1966, communication of simple messages could be achieved from one computer to another, allowing for the first form of collaboration communications via computers.
The business community quickly took up emails, as it was a very simply way to communicate between businesses, and it was quickly dubbed the “e-revolution”.
Some of the pros for emails for businesses are:
· Problem with logistics:
In business, communication between people and/or organizations who are of considerable distance can prove costly and time consuming for meetings to occur in a specify location, but the exchange of information can now be instant and this saves money.
· The problem of synchronization
If real time communication is needed, making sure everyone is gathering at the same time and same place can be very difficult, but emails allows the receiver to view the information that was sent to them in their own time.
However there are some cons. They are:
· Time
20% - 50% more time is spent viewing emails and with increase use of emails as a collaboration tool due to globalization, this can prove costly to businesses.
· Inconsistency
Emails can repeat and duplicate information, and if a team is collaborating on a project, this can cause problems 8.
Types of Emails
FORUMS
An internet forum allows for online discussions and postings by anyone in the world, and contains views and options on a certain topic. They are posted by members of these forums over a certain time period. Forums are different from blogs, as blogs are by an individual, whereas forums are a discussion by a community on a topic.
Forums allow for effective discussion and communication by all members of a team using online meetings to express views and options, to resolve a problem in a short and/or real time, without the expense of everyone meeting at one location or sending emails between team members. Emails lead to miscommunication by team members and can’t solve problems in real time 9.
Types Of Forums
REFERENCES
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fax viewed on 21st March 2008
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_fax viewed on 21st March 2008
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog viewed on 21st March 2008
4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_blog viewed on 21st March 2008
5. http://www.globalprblogweek.com/2005/09/19/dutto-internal-blogs, Internal blogs: How to design powerful conversations that open possibilities for action and collaboration within blogs by Matías Fernández Dutto on September 19th, 2005,
viewed on 23rd March 2008
6. http://www.infotodayblog.com/2005/12/02/observations-from-nancy-garman-on-blogs-collaboration-community/, Observations from Nancy Garman on Blogs, Collaboration & Community. ITI Bloggers December 2nd, 200, viewed on 25th March 2008
7. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_blog viewed on 21st March 2008
8. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email viewed on 21st March 2008
9. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_forums viewed on 21st March 2008
FACSIMILE (FAX)
A facsimile machine is a communication device that scans documents digitally through telephone lines then prints them out on another facsimile machine 1.
Previously faxes were used more often then mail as they would be received instantly saving time and money. However, faxes have decreased as emails are becoming the preferred method of instant communication. If you have access to an internet fax, email or a Web browser, faxes via the internet can produce good facsimiles. They work much the same way as a fax, but they send and receive documents via the internet as a PDF or TIFF file through emails and requires no phone line 2.
BLOGS
Blogs are a new form of asynchronous communication courtesy of faster digital technology allowing users to share opinions on particular subjects or events.
Businesses use internal blogs to enhance collaboration between the employees or externally such as marketing known as corporate blogs3. During 2006 the number of large companies using corporate blogs increased from 35% to 70% 4.
Companies who set up internal blogs will discover that it’s simple and cost effective creating an atmosphere where employees participate in the company’s future vision by expressing new ideas, through debates creating better participation and spontaneous collaboration in a team. These create greater outcomes and objectives for the business 5.
However, some people consider blogging not an effective collaboration tool, most notably Nancy Garman stating in her article ‘Blogs, Collaboration & Community’ that the use of blogs is a self-publishing phenomenon where individuals publish their own content, rather than as a handy collaboration tool which have been tagged as helping in the business environment. Nancy indicates that blogs may help to enhance communication between employees but this certainly doesn’t make it collaborative, but also has stated that a collaborative blog can’t create a community and a community can’t ensure a successful collaborative blog 6.
External blogs are used so anyone outside the company to allow them to interact with the target markets, by creating a more personal interaction though promotions of products and in turn creates a collaboration of ideas between the client and business 7.
Types of Corporate Blogs
EMAILS
Email or Electronic mail is an electronic communication system that allows the user to store, forward and send messages from one computer to another instantly, allowing for better workplace collaborations.
The use of emails can be traced back to 1965 when multiple users could communicate between one another via a time-sharing mainframe computer but in 1966, communication of simple messages could be achieved from one computer to another, allowing for the first form of collaboration communications via computers.
The business community quickly took up emails, as it was a very simply way to communicate between businesses, and it was quickly dubbed the “e-revolution”.
Some of the pros for emails for businesses are:
· Problem with logistics:
In business, communication between people and/or organizations who are of considerable distance can prove costly and time consuming for meetings to occur in a specify location, but the exchange of information can now be instant and this saves money.
· The problem of synchronization
If real time communication is needed, making sure everyone is gathering at the same time and same place can be very difficult, but emails allows the receiver to view the information that was sent to them in their own time.
However there are some cons. They are:
· Time
20% - 50% more time is spent viewing emails and with increase use of emails as a collaboration tool due to globalization, this can prove costly to businesses.
· Inconsistency
Emails can repeat and duplicate information, and if a team is collaborating on a project, this can cause problems 8.
Types of Emails
FORUMS
An internet forum allows for online discussions and postings by anyone in the world, and contains views and options on a certain topic. They are posted by members of these forums over a certain time period. Forums are different from blogs, as blogs are by an individual, whereas forums are a discussion by a community on a topic.
Forums allow for effective discussion and communication by all members of a team using online meetings to express views and options, to resolve a problem in a short and/or real time, without the expense of everyone meeting at one location or sending emails between team members. Emails lead to miscommunication by team members and can’t solve problems in real time 9.
Types Of Forums
REFERENCES
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fax viewed on 21st March 2008
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_fax viewed on 21st March 2008
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog viewed on 21st March 2008
4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_blog viewed on 21st March 2008
5. http://www.globalprblogweek.com/2005/09/19/dutto-internal-blogs, Internal blogs: How to design powerful conversations that open possibilities for action and collaboration within blogs by Matías Fernández Dutto on September 19th, 2005,
viewed on 23rd March 2008
6. http://www.infotodayblog.com/2005/12/02/observations-from-nancy-garman-on-blogs-collaboration-community/, Observations from Nancy Garman on Blogs, Collaboration & Community. ITI Bloggers December 2nd, 200, viewed on 25th March 2008
7. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_blog viewed on 21st March 2008
8. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email viewed on 21st March 2008
9. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_forums viewed on 21st March 2008
My skills
Max
Quite good at modeling, still learning on the lighting
Photoshop
Forget about it
Video Editing
Quite good, but needs improvement.
Quite good at modeling, still learning on the lighting
Photoshop
Forget about it
Video Editing
Quite good, but needs improvement.
Dam Theater - Fabrication
The Dam Theater will create a wonderful 3D image with the scale of the theater compared to that of the dam. With the massive difference in scale, this will create a wonderful opportunity to view the model from many different angles and be visual spectacular to explore. On completion, you will want to explore this entire model, because it is so unique in the world of architecture and you will be curious to know what it is. How often do you see a building built over a dam?
The textures and mapping will be quite basic. Viewing the images on the website, I particularly don’t like the materials selected inside the theatre, as I consider it doesn’t suit the relaxed environment and the function of the building. The material for the dam will be very easy; the use of a concrete map should do just fine.
The lighting and atmospherics will be quite wonderful as lighting for a theater would be very different to that of a normal building. By having limited lighting in the theater, depending on if we want the theater empty or packed, this will create a wonderful atmosphere of being relaxed and an enjoyable place to be. Maximum lighting can also be used for the foyer as well as the outside.
In regards to the environment, this is our biggest assets it is easily the biggest visual aspect of our choice, having been design to be built on a dam. Having being built on a dam, water is everywhere, and we can take advantage of this by having noise depicting water.
The biggest problem I think in the project will be
· How big to we make the surrounding environment?
· How can we make the background visually spectacular?
· How do we create height in terms of long distances and making it look like a lookout (see inside theater)?
· How do we create realistic water? and
· How are we going to work out all of the sizes of the rooms, height of the dam etc?
How do we achieve this? I think we should work on our strengths. One person can work on the environment, two people can work on the two main rooms, someone can work on making sure it all fits together and someone else can make sure it all fits together. This can be decided on in more detailed tomorrow.
The textures and mapping will be quite basic. Viewing the images on the website, I particularly don’t like the materials selected inside the theatre, as I consider it doesn’t suit the relaxed environment and the function of the building. The material for the dam will be very easy; the use of a concrete map should do just fine.
The lighting and atmospherics will be quite wonderful as lighting for a theater would be very different to that of a normal building. By having limited lighting in the theater, depending on if we want the theater empty or packed, this will create a wonderful atmosphere of being relaxed and an enjoyable place to be. Maximum lighting can also be used for the foyer as well as the outside.
In regards to the environment, this is our biggest assets it is easily the biggest visual aspect of our choice, having been design to be built on a dam. Having being built on a dam, water is everywhere, and we can take advantage of this by having noise depicting water.
The biggest problem I think in the project will be
· How big to we make the surrounding environment?
· How can we make the background visually spectacular?
· How do we create height in terms of long distances and making it look like a lookout (see inside theater)?
· How do we create realistic water? and
· How are we going to work out all of the sizes of the rooms, height of the dam etc?
How do we achieve this? I think we should work on our strengths. One person can work on the environment, two people can work on the two main rooms, someone can work on making sure it all fits together and someone else can make sure it all fits together. This can be decided on in more detailed tomorrow.
Sunday, March 30, 2008
Week 3
Hi team.
- Just to remind you guys about the words for our fabication project. I think our first presentation is next week with the word being intent, then displane and finally remunuation. I will come up with something within the next couple of days.
- On UT3, i haven't brought it yet (more to do that i can't afford to buy it this week, but will get it next Monday), but i will do some experiements on Max today and show the basic tomorrow.
- The submission for next week, i have finished, and written over 1300 words, however am having trouble on finding photos and videos.
- The team leader we choose was Daniel, who will be a great team leader.
- I think our coice is wondeful and could show great potential, in particualr the environment we have surrounding it.
I will see you tomorrow.
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Fabrication – Moonstone House
http://archrecord.construction.com/residential/unbuilt/archives/2007/07_moonstoneHouse/ default.asp
Moonstone House was originally going to be built at Moonstone Beach, Rhode Island in USA. Moonstone house was designed to maximize solar exposure as well as keeping the house well ventilated.
The architectural firm (WORK AC, based in New York), understood how to design a sustainable house by capturing the sun to warm the house and wind to cool the house down. WORK AC had perfected sustainable design with the Moonstone house by designing the house with an L shape design. This L shape design is 2 stories in height with separate private and public function area. The clients conducted extra research into solar exposure and requested that rooms should face east and west and have circulation areas facing south. As well as the design, the article has stated that the clients wanted to use ecologically conscious material that was local to the area as to keep with the environmental theme. The local materials the clients requested was cedar, which grew in abundance in the local area as well as using natural stone for the base of the house.
With high consideration for sustainable design is something that architects fail to realize its importance to architecture today as everyday living expenses increase.
Unless you pay high prices in architectural fees, homes are not usually designed to suit the local environment and use the weather to its advantage with most housing designs being generic and placed on a site. This can cause problems because heating and cooling costs could be through the roof because of impractical designs. With Moonstone, it was design with local conditions in mind to make heating and cooing costs non existence. This is what sets Moonstone house from the rest.
I consider that Moonstone house with its design to lower living costs and take advantage of the local condition, is the most important factor in architectural design as most architects either fail to understand this principle, are lazy to consider this design or don’t recognize it. Overall sustainable design is of great importance either built or unbuilt design, however in terms of unbuilt design, even though it isn’t officially built the principle is important.
Finally, had trouble finding UT3 yesterday in Liverpool, but my search will go on. On Sunday, looked at a new computer, but discovered that it is out of my price range for the moment. My sister has a new computer, so i can only hope
it works on hers.Craig
Monday, March 17, 2008
Unbuilt architecture found !!!!!!!
Hi team
Found a website with unbuilt homes. They are from the USA, but they are unquie and have some wonderful designs. I haven't yet selected a design, but one will be selected by tonight.
The website is http://archrecord.construction.com/residential/unbuilt/archives/2007/07_Xhouse/default.asp
Craig
Found a website with unbuilt homes. They are from the USA, but they are unquie and have some wonderful designs. I haven't yet selected a design, but one will be selected by tonight.
The website is http://archrecord.construction.com/residential/unbuilt/archives/2007/07_Xhouse/default.asp
Craig
Sunday, March 16, 2008
Communication, UT3 and Unbuilt websites
Hi team
I will find it very hard using skype as i don't have access to it. So the best form of communication for me is through email and/or blogger.
Also can someone let me know the specification for UT3 so i can organise a upgrade of my computer or install it on my new sister computer.
Also having trouble with finding websites with unbuiilt architecture so any suggestion will be great.
Craig
I will find it very hard using skype as i don't have access to it. So the best form of communication for me is through email and/or blogger.
Also can someone let me know the specification for UT3 so i can organise a upgrade of my computer or install it on my new sister computer.
Also having trouble with finding websites with unbuiilt architecture so any suggestion will be great.
Craig
Unbuilt architecture website
Hi Team.
Myself and Derek have found pretty much the only website that shows unbuilt architecture. The AA website that you found was also the main website that i found to do with unbuilt architecture.
However the website shows pdf of presentation poster but nothing else. So to find highly detailed plans and drawings, we may need to go through other avenues. But i will have a more deatiled look.
Craig
Myself and Derek have found pretty much the only website that shows unbuilt architecture. The AA website that you found was also the main website that i found to do with unbuilt architecture.
However the website shows pdf of presentation poster but nothing else. So to find highly detailed plans and drawings, we may need to go through other avenues. But i will have a more deatiled look.
Craig
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Hello
I Team A. This project looks to be quite interesting. I have wriiten down some keywords for our 3 words, which i will posts soon.
In regards to meetings, I am free all of Monday, but as i live in Liverpool, i don't thick Monday will suit me. Friday i am avaiable between 5pm and 7pm, but also Thursday between 12pm and 2pm.
I have find this on you tube. Having trouble uploading it through.
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Unreal+3+in+architecture&search_type=
In regards to meetings, I am free all of Monday, but as i live in Liverpool, i don't thick Monday will suit me. Friday i am avaiable between 5pm and 7pm, but also Thursday between 12pm and 2pm.
I have find this on you tube. Having trouble uploading it through.
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Unreal+3+in+architecture&search_type=
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