Hei, Sorry that I ask in English. I am trying to work out how to best manage a project that involves supervision of a PhD student across the ocean. The student and myself are in Helsinki, but another supervisor is in Buenos Aires. We have been using Google Wave with mixed results (the waves become messy after a few rounds of commenting and discussion). I have been looking a little at Teambox, but it may be overkill and the disk quota of the free service is very small. Probably a private blog would do. I could create a private blog at WordPress.com but would like to know if it is possible to have a private group blog at the university, and if it would work with a lightweight user account (which could probably be obtained for the foreign supervisor and collaborator).
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Pedro J Aphalo
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Joona Lehtomäki 9:07 on 16.11.2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Have you considered using a private wiki for this? I’ve used the University wiki system (based on Confluence) to organize a few collaborations and it has worked reasonably well. At lest task managing, file sharing and posting / editing text articles is a breeze with a wiki. You can also give user rights to people coming from outside the University. https://wiki.helsinki.fi/display/support/Instruction+in+English
Jere Majava 11:28 on 16.11.2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply
I second Joonas’s suggestion to use wiki. Confluence also has a blog like function called News, perfect for private blogging. The WP blogs at blogs.helsinki.fi are all public.