Our team designed Clover Connect, an Intranet for Cloverville Public Library (CPL) staff designed as a collaborative internal website and knowledge management system. This is a "go to" place for staff resources and a platform for collaboration, communication and information exchange where staff can find updated information on library procedures, events, meetings, classifieds and have policies at the tip of their fingers. Members have access, flexibility, and freedom to find important information without assistance.

Together we examined various hosted wikis--Wetpaint, Google Sites, and PBWorks. Google Sites maximized ease-of-use, organization/navigation options, available gadgets and most notably, integration with complementary Google cloud computing applications. The team utilized a number of Web 2.0 technologies to collaborate on this project. Each group member created one or more Google Documents for collaboration on different aspects of the project. Jackie set up a blog for on-going online discussion and communication; Claudia created Doodle polls to schedule group chats as well as to divide work. Amy and Genna set up and moderated Elluminate group chat sessions.

ALowman, Claudia, Genna, and Jackie (Novus)

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