Developing guidelines for online fora:

Project team

If you would like to join the team please see the notes on participation in the Guidelines index page.

The team members are:

• Paul Evans
• Malcolm Forbes
• Horace Mitchell
• David Newman
• Frank Wilson
• David Wortley
• Julie Zielstra

Here's some background on the team:

Paul Evans - paul@paulwork.demon.co.uk

Paul is Director, Regeneration at the (UK Government's) Department of the Environment Transport and the Regions. He has a long experience as a computer user (and sometime programmer!) and recently chaired a group that developed "email golden rules" for internal communication among Government departments.

Malcolm Forbes - malcolm@tmg.co.uk

Malcolm is Managing Director of TMG Hypermedia (profile awaited).

Horace Mitchell

Horace is the Director of European Telework Online and has had a long term interest in the use of electronic systems for human communication, having worked on e-mail systems as long ago as the late 1970s. He developed and maintains the Discussion Guidelines for European Telework Online forums.

David Newman

David is working in the Department of Information Systems, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia until mid-January 2000, when he returns to his post as a lecturer in the School of Management at Queen's University Belfast. He has a long-standing interest in computer conferencing and has published research papers on aspects of this (See The on-line preferendum: a tool for voting, conflict resolution and decision-making; and Beyond CSCW: computer supported mediation and consensus decision-making in electronic democracy ).

Frank Wilson - fwilson@i-d.co.uk

Frank is a human factors engineer (an ergonomist) - his focus is on the interactions between people and technology - the examination of behaviour to understand technology opportunities, the configuration of technology to suit the objectives and behaviours of people, the evaluation of systems to assess levels of success and opportunities for improvement. Frank worked with Xerox developing products for the commercial market, before joining University College London as a research fellow to start the London HCI Centre (Human Computer Interaction) in the early days of graphical interfaces. Interaction Design is now an independent company but still collaborates with UCL.

David Wortley - dwortley@massmitec.co.uk

David founded Mass Mitec in 1984 after careers in BT and IBM. As well as its work in digital imaging and presentation technologies, Mass Mitec is closely engaged in new models of online communication, including a leading role in the ComKnet (Community Commerce and Knowledge Network) project. David's personal interest in personal and group communications using technologies led to 12 months work on the Knowledge Ecology Network Project (KEN), a global discussion forum on technologies and methodologies for building sustainable virtual knowledge enterprises.

Julie Zielstra - julie@e-base.org.uk

Profile notes awaited.