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= Overview =
 
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What's a non-technical person?
 
* Never learned programming concepts
* Didn't realize Wikipedia can be edited
* Maybe used a cms, blog (Wordpress), Facebook
 
What do non-technical people want?
 
# to solve their problem, usually a "one of those" web site with some special requirements
# to learn about the participatory web
# to create reusable data?
# to have more control over their own site
 
Compare to wordpress - task driven - "Raskin vs Englebart"
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= Success and failure =
 
== Failure ==
 
== Success==
 
In order;
 
# Useful read-only resource
# basic editing using forms
# wiki markup
# Creating templates
# Creating queries
# Adjusting classes
# Creating classes
# understanding of good schema design, distributed data, licensing
 
= Techniques =
 
Identify groups, strategies
 
Threaten - others are doing it, loss of leadership
 
Inspire - self empowerment, less dependence, creating, leading, "where the web is going"
 
Commitment vs follow through
 
Guiding
 
Topic leads
 
Profles of uses
 
Exhibit example of copying and pasting to excel using semantic web data
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