O3 Network does a Q&A with a Community Champion

The Ontario Research and Innovation Optical Network (ORION) helps Ontario researchers and educators re-think how they collaborate and interact with colleagues, by providing an online collaboration and professional networking service, using IGLOO's social business software.   Introduced as a value-added service for ORION-connected institutions, the O3 Collaboration uses IGLOO's software platform to give researchers and educators a powerful combination of the latest social networking and content management tools to help accelerate research and support advanced teaching and learning.

Read an interview with David Phipps, Director of Research Services and Knowledge Exchange at York University who is responsible for leading ResearchImpact, one of the first research groups to adopt ORION's new O3 Collaboration and professional networking platform based on IGLOO software.

ResearchImpact Primary Goal using IGLOO:  Broker relationships between researchers, graduate students and their non academic research partners so that academic research and expertise can inform decisions about public policy and professional practice.

Key Features of IGLOO:

• Document repository
• Wiki
• Messaging features
• Forming  groups with differential permissions to different parts of the community or to different documents and articles in the site

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