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 : : A (14) |  | Not yet looked at | | | General | A component task or activity of an Initiative. An activist or crewmember working on an Initiative plays a Role made up of one or more Actions. |
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| No | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | | | Live Meeting | The Presenter indicated in the "Now Presenting" pane of the Live Meeting console. Since the Active Presenter must be manually designated by (any) Presenter, it may or may not actually reflect the speaker or the person currently sharing resources or applications. | | No | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | Yes | | General | The intended end-user and beneficiary of the Star Cafe. | | Yes | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | Yes | | Star Cafe Room |
A link on the banner that takes a user to the admin options of a Room.
| | Yes | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | Yes | | Star Cafe Room |
A set of links in a Star Café Room (accessed via the Admin link) that allows a user to change his or her personal information, and that allows a Room Administrator to change features of the Room.
| | Yes | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | Yes | | General |
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| | Yes | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | Yes | | Live Meeting |
The capability of participants to add modifications to an imported resource or collaboartive slide. Includes highlighter, lines, shapes, stamps and text.
| | Yes | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | No | | Star Cafe Room |
A web part found in many rooms.
| | No | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | Yes | | General |
| | Yes | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | No | | General | | | No | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | | | General | | | No | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | Yes | | Live Meeting |
| | Yes | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | Yes | | General |
A service which enables multiple, remotely-located people to speak and listen to one another in real time. This can be done via telephone (as with Complete Conference, AT Conference, Asterisk Audio Rooms and freeconference.com) or via computer (as with Skype).
| | Yes | | | | | |  : : B (7) |  | Not yet looked at | Yes | | Live Meeting | The means of communication among IT Support staff (and possibly other participants) which is concurrent with, but independent of, the Live Meeting itself. This may be done via an Instant Messaging service. | | Yes | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | Yes | | Live Meeting |
The person who organizes the backchannel during a Live Meeting event, including initiating the IM call(s).
| | Yes | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | | | Star Cafe Room |
The top portion of any Star Café page, which includes the Star Café logo, the Room Title, the Page Title, and the Home and Admin (and occasionally Help and Up) links.
| | No | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | Yes | | General |
Short for "web log", a blog is a web-based publication with frequent, chronologically ordered contributions from one or more people. More info, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog.
| | Yes | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | | | Star Cafe Room |
A list of links displayed below the banner that shows the position of the currently viewed page in relation to hierarchically broader pages of the Room. The links read from left to right, from broader (or "higher") pages to progessively narrow (or "lower") pages..
| | No | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | Yes | | General |
Same as web browser. A software program that enables a computer to display pages from the World Wide Web.
| | Yes | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | Yes | | General |
A web-based service which enables multiple participants to post messages, respond to previously posted messages and hold discussions. (Known by many other names, including Discussion Board and Internet Forum.) More info, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_forum.
| | Yes | | | | | |  : : C (14) |  | Not yet looked at | Yes | | General |
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A metaphorical representation of an Action. See also Hand and Deck.
| | No | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | | | Live Meeting |
Any of the Resources created within the Live Meeting environment, including Whiteboard, Web Slide, Text Slide, Poll or Snapshot
| | No | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | | | General | Usually referred to as CQ. A collaborative educational process for a small number of people to build knowledge or skills in a particular area. Although it uses Star Cafe tools, it may use other resources as well. |
made inactive on 2007-09-25 replaced by "CQ" only
| No | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | | | General | | | | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | Yes | | General |
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| | No | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | | | Star Cafe Room |
Something added to a Star Cafe Room by a Room Administrator (e.g., web part, navigation area item, new view). Distinguished from content (contributed by users).
| | No | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | | | Live Meeting |
A group of Live Meeting participants sharing a single computer. (A single person at a computer is considered a cluster as well.)
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The screen displayed to a participant during a Live Meeting session. The console is composed of panes for specific functions (e.g., to display the attendees, to enable questions to be asked, ...)
| | No | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | Yes | | Star Cafe Room |
Data contributed by users to Star Cafe Rooms (e.g., records, list items, survey responses), or other repositories. Distinguished from component (added by Room Administrators).
| | Yes | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | Yes | | General |
A structured web conference with specific protocols for the exchange of knowedge in the Star Cafe. From the Latin word colloqui which means "to talk together". This is a specific formatted learning group defined 2007-09-25 by the Star Cafe Crew.
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Unpreferred (out of date) term is Colloquium.
2007-09-25 We have been kicking this around for 6 months. Larry was the pilot lead with RVG and Lem very active in the process.
| Yes | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | Yes | | General |
The total collection of volunteers, staff and consultants who provide activists using Star Cafe tools with administration, support or training. (Crewmembers may also be activists.)
| | Yes | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | Yes | | General |
A specific volunteer, staffmember or consultant who provides administration, support or training in using the Star Cafe. May be used in the context of a given situation or Initiative.
| | Yes | | | | | |  : : D (10) |  | Not yet looked at | Yes | | General |
| | Yes | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | | | General |
A metaphorical representation of the total Actions undertaken for a given Initiative. See also Card and Hand.
| | No | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | | | General | | | No | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | | | Live Meeting |
The person controlling the flow of the Live Meeting presentation. If not also the facilitator, the director must work very closely with the facilitator, and must have presenter status. Could be a member of IT Support.
| | No | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | Yes | | General |
A web-based service which enables multiple participants to post messages, respond to previously posted messages and hold discussions. (Known by many other names, including Bulletin Board and Internet Forum.) More info, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_forum.
| | Yes | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | | | General |
The name associated with a Star Cafe user account which is displayed to identify the user (e.g., as the source of some information entered into a web part).
| | No | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | | | Live Meeting |
The string of characters that identifies who is using a particular computer in Live Meeting.
| | No | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | | | General | | | No | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | | | Live Meeting |
1. One type of Resource, which has been imported into Live Meeting for presentation. 2) a file which can be shared by a Presenter via Application or Desktop sharing.
| | No | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | | | Star Cafe Room | | | | | | | | |  : : e (9) |  | Not yet looked at | | | General | | | | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | | | General |
| | No | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | | | General | | | No | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | Yes | | General |
A software program that enables a computer to send and receive email messages.
| | Yes | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | | | General |
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| | Yes | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | | | Star Cafe Room | | | | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | | | General | | | | | | | | |  : : F (7) |  | Not yet looked at | | | General | The person responsible for maintaining a specific Community Room or Work Room. | | No | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | Yes | | Live Meeting | A Live Meeting participant who is in charge of the flow of the meeting. This participant is not necessarily a Live Meeting Presenter. This is akin to the facilitator of a face-to-face meeting. | | Yes | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | Yes | | General |
A predefined aspect of information applied to individual records of a database.
| | Yes | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | Yes | | General |
A multi-platform web browser, preferred for Mac-based use of Star Café and most of its tools (except Live Meeting, for which Safari is preferred). See http://www.firefox.com.
| | Yes | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | Yes | | General |
Software and/or hardware designed to provide controlled access (or a complete barrier) between one computer or network of computers and another. Usually used in terms of protecting one or more computers from access by anyone on the Internet. More info, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firewall_%28networking%29 .
| | Yes | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | | | Live Meeting |
An interactive outline or list which invites participant contribtions. Could be executed as a shared application (e.g., with Word), or as a Text Slide or Whiteboard.
| | No | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | | | General |
| | No | | | | | |  : : H (6) |  | Not yet looked at | | | General |
A metaphorical representation of the collection of Actions in a Role. See also Card and Deck.
| | No | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | No | | Star Cafe Room |
A link sometimes found in the banner which opens up an email message to the AFSC Helpdesk.
| | No | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | Yes | | AFSC | A service of the AFSC Information Technology department which users can call ( 1-800-500-2372 or 1-215-241-7850) or email (helpdesk@afsc.org) for technical questions or problems. | | Yes | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | | | Live Meeting |
To use the Highligher Annotation Tool in Live Meeting.
| | No | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | Yes | | Star Cafe Room |
A link on the banner that takes a user to the main page of a Room.
| | Yes | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | | | Live Meeting |
The person who greets attendees and introduces speakers.
| | No | | | | | |  : : I (7) |  | Not yet looked at | Yes | | General |
Abbreviation for Internet Explorer, a popular web browser, which is preferred for Windows PC access to Star Café and most of its tools. See http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie.
| | Yes | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | Yes | | General |
Same as Instant Messaging. A means of instantaneous online communication among 2 or more people. Popular IM programs include MSN Messenger, AOL Instant Messenger (or AIM) and Yahoo! Messenger. More info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant_messaging.
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A campaign, event or some other project undertaken by one or more activists and crewmembers who play Roles composed of one or more Actions.
| | No | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | Yes | | General |
Same as IM. A means of instantaneous online communication among 2 or more people. Popular IM programs include MSN Messenger, AOL Instant Messenger (or AIM) and Yahoo! Messenger. More info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant_messaging.
| | Yes | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | Yes | | General |
| | Yes | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | Yes | | General |
A web-based service which enables multiple participants to post messages, respond to previously posted messages and hold discussions. (Known by many other names, including Bulletin Board and Discussion Board.) More info, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_forum.
| | Yes | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | | | Live Meeting |
Members of designated representatives of the AFSC IT Department who provide first level technical assistance for Live Meeting.
| | No | | | | | |  : : L (5) |  | Not yet looked at | | | General | | | No | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | | | General | | | No | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | | | General | | | No | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | Yes | | General |
Technically, this is a particular brand of electronic mailing list, but commonly used as a generic term for electronic mailing list. More info, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LISTSERV.
| | Yes | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | Yes | | General |
1. Specific collaboration software/service from Microsoft. 2. A specific online meeting set up via the Live Meeting service.
| | Yes | | | | | |  : : M (14) |  | Not yet looked at | | | General | | | No | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | | | General | | | | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | | | General |
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| | No | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | | | Star Cafe Room |
The default (or beginning) page in a Room. It includes breadcrumbs, a navigation area, and one or more web parts. It can be accessed via the Home link in the banner.
| | No | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | | | Star Cafe Room |
A page used to add new users, remove users from all site groups, or assign users to site groups. It can be accessed by clicking the Admin [link], then Site Settings [needs definition], then “Manage users” in the “Administration” section.
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from Andrew, via email, 060614
| No | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | | | General | | | | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | | | Discussion Boards | The person who monitors who participates in a discussion board, and what is posted to the discussion board. S/he may or may not have the ability to remove participants or postings deemed inappropriate. | | No | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | | | Star Cafe Room | | | No | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | | | Live Meeting |
The primary controller of one particular computer in a Live Meeting. (If there's only one participant at a computer, then that person is the Mousekeer by default.)
| | No | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | Yes | | General |
| | Yes | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | | | AFSC |
The Mid-Year Teleconference of the Middle East Collaborative Group
| | No | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | | | AFSC |
Core group planning the MYT, facilitated by Tina Graf, and consisting of Bill Pierre, Tahija Vikalo, Peter Lems, Adam Horowitz and Leila Barclay.
| | No | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | | | AFSC |
Subset group helping to plan the MYT, consisting of the MYT Planning Team, plus Jennifer Bing-Canar, Noah Merrill and Karishma Lama.
| | No | | | | | |  : : N (5) |  | Not yet looked at | | | Star Cafe Room |
A list of links, appearing in the leftmost area of many Room pages, which a Room Administrator has included to facilitate finding other pages or web parts within the Room. It may not include all of the pages or web parts in a Room.
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| | Yes | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | | | General | | | No | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | | | Star Cafe Room | | | | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | | | AFSC |
Termination that is disputed or not normal.
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This is a term and definition (along with Standard Termination) suggested by Rob Moore, as a result of a Star Point he'd written. Rob to re-word Star Point, per Bob, 060706: Seth
| No | | | | | |  : : O (6) |  | Not yet looked at | Yes | | General |
| | Yes | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | Yes | | General |
A Windows-based email client, generally preferred for use with Star Café and most of its tools.
| | Yes | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | Yes | | General |
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| | Yes | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | Yes | | Star Cafe Room |
The person who has overall authority for a Room.
| | Yes | | | | | |  : : P (9) |  | Not yet looked at | | | General | | | | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | | | Live Meeting | | | No | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | No | | Live Meeting |
Any person logged into a particular Live Meeting, with a status of either Attendee or Presenter. A participant may be alone at his/her computer, or may be part of a computer cluster.
| | No | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | | | General | | | No | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | | | General | | | No | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | | | Live Meeting |
A function, created as a Collaborative Slide, which can be customized by a presenter to elicit single-choice responses from attendees.
| | No | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | Yes | | Live Meeting |
A status of Live Meeting participants which enables the participant to share resources and applications with other participants. Could be a member of IT Support.
| | Yes | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | Yes | | General |
| | Yes | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | | | Live Meeting |
The person who pulls together all aspects of a Live Meeting event at the highest level, including definition, preparation, execution and funding.
| | No | | | | | |  : : Q (4) |  | Not yet looked at | | | Live Meeting |
Live Meeting participant, with presenter status, who uses the Question Manager to handle questions submitted by participants via the Question and Answer pane. The Q&A Coordinator may respond to the questioner directly or by other means. Could be a member of IT Support.
| | No | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | | | Live Meeting |
A feature (which may or may not be available in any particular Live Meeting) by which participants can submit questions or comments in writing during a Live Meeting event.
| | No | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | | | Live Meeting |
A tool which enables presenters to respond to questions posed by participants via the Question and Answer pane.
| | No | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | | | Live Meeting |
A single page of summary information about a specific event for participants to use as a ready reference duing a Live Meeting session. For example, the Quick Refernence Card used at the MYT is attached.
| | No | | | | |  |  : : R (5) |  | Not yet looked at | Yes | | General |
A single unit of information within a database, consisting of pre-defined fields of data.
| | Yes | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | | | Live Meeting |
A document, collaborative slide (or combination) which appears in the Resource Pane of the console and can be displayed by a Presenter.
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The collection of Actions taken on by a single activist or crewmember in order to accomplish an Initiative.
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Or "Star Cafe Room". A website within Star Café, which may be either a Community Room (with unrestricted access) or a Private Room (with restricted access).
| | No | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | | | Star Cafe Room |
A user who has control over the layout, components, and access permissions of a Star Café Room.
| | No | | | | | |  : : S (18) |  | Not yet looked at | Yes | | General |
| | Yes | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | | | General | | | | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | Yes | | Live Meeting |
Person who, working in concert with the Facilitator (or Presenter), types text into a shared resource or application during a Live Meeting (often reflecting input from various Participants). Could be a member of IT Support.
| | Yes | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | | | Live Meeting |
A document which coordinates detailed agenda items (performed by the facilitator or other designated speakers) with what is being displayed via Live Meeting by the director.
| | No | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | | | General | | | | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | | | General | | | | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | | | Live Meeting |
A collaborative slide which can capture the image within a variably-sized rectangle.
| | No | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | | | General | | | | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | | | Live Meeting |
The person who is addressing the Live Meeting by voice and/or visual presentation. This person may be providing a scheduled presentation (i.e., talent) or simply an attendee who has the floor. This is distinguised from the presenter, which is a Live Meeting participant status.
| | No | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | | | AFSC | | | | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | | | AFSC |
Termination when somebody leaves the AFSC in a planned way.
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This is a term and definition (along with Non-Standard Termination) suggested by Rob Moore, as a result of a Star Point he'd written. Rob to re-word Star Point, per Bob, 060706: Seth
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060712 RVG I may be concerned about the word "Tool" need to think about it.
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Same as Room. A website within Star Café, which may be either a Community Room (with unrestricted access) or a Private Room (with restricted access).
| | Yes | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | | | General | | | | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | | | General | | | No | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | | | General | | | | | | | | |  : : T (4) |  | Not yet looked at | | | Live Meeting |
A speaker presenting a scheduled presentation during a Live Meeting.
| | No | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | | | General | | | | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | | | Live Meeting |
A collaborative slide onto which participants can type text.
| | No | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | | | General | | | No | | | | | |  : : U (3) |  | Not yet looked at | | | Star Cafe Room |
A link sometimes found in the banner that takes a user one level up in the hierarchy of pages within the Room.
| | No | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | | | General | | | | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | | | Star Cafe Room |
A username and password which a user may need to access particular Rooms or web parts within Rooms.
| | No | | | | | |  : : V (3) |  | Not yet looked at | | | General | | | | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | | | General | | | | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | | | General | | | | | | | | |  : : W (12) |  | Not yet looked at | Yes | | General |
A software program that enables a computer to display pages from the World Wide Web.
| | Yes | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | | | General | | | | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | Yes | | Star Cafe Room |
A functional component (e.g., a list, discussion board, calendar, etc.) which is the basic building block in any Room.
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email from Andrew: The simplest definition I can think of is “A page hosted by a server running Windows SharePoint Services, that contains one or more Web Parts.” Harold could surely come up with something better and more technically accurate than this. Generally, all Rooms are Web Part Pages, but certain things like CR001 that we were using for a while aren’t. I think.
A Web Part Page is a special type of Web page that consolidates data, such as lists and charts, and Web content, such as text and images, into a dynamic information portal built around a common task or special interest. Think of a Web Part Page as a Web dashboard that presents a variety of structured and unstructured information in an organized, useful, and convenient way. Instead of spending a lot of time repetitively accessing many Web pages and data sources, you can save substantial time by organizing this disparate information into a single, integrated Web page that can also expose details or links to other Web pages as needed.
A Web Part Page contains one or more Web Parts, which are the basic building blocks of a Web Part Page. These Web Parts are easy to reuse, share, and personalize by all users who have permission to access them. Web Part Pages often contains several Web Parts connected together that display data and content you can manipulate to dynamically change the Web Part Page and get the results you want.
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The title of a Web Part as it appears on a Web Part Page [may also need an entry]. Can be clicked on to access a Web Part’s primary screen [don’t know what this would be – it’s the page you get with just the contents of the Web Part, and View options, modify, etc…]
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from Andrew 060608
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A collaborative slide which presents a website that participants can explore individually (without presenters or other attendees seeing or controlling what they've done).
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A collaborative slide (which begins as blank) on which participants can apply the annotation tools.
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A type of website that allows users to easily add, remove, or otherwise edit content, very quickly and easily. For more information, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki.
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