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Work in Progress

just_tonya — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 16:13:49 CDT

I've had a delay in working on several items planned -- due to the recent house re-model, vacation and then two eye surgeries. I have a "new look" on life. :)
I've got 'lots of irons in the fire' to tend though. Here's just a short list of some of the things I need to jumpstart again.

New blog - Opinion Bait - check out my survey collection (in progress)
Corporate wikis - applications, benefits, recommendations, examples, case studies, contacts
Wikis in corporate training
Content plan for my blogs - if you can suggest topics, post a new thread or send me a message
Project profiles for this personal wiki that demonstrate my experience and expertise (e.g., wiki development and management, primary research, global project management, global program management, competency development, skills management, skills development, corporate training management, training development, training delivery, technical support, systems programming, application development)

just_tonya wiki

just_tonya — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:50:18 CDT

Welcome to just_tonya's wiki! This wiki is my personal website.

You can find links to my wikis and blogs on this site. I'll include some information on my professional life -- my day job -- and my publications. Just for fun, I've already added some of my favorite stuff.

My Blogs

My Wikis

My Life at Work

My Links

My Pubs

My Top Fives

My Favorite Things

Where's just_tonya

Work in Progress

Favorite Videos

The Buzz

Best Advice

Best Advice

just_tonya — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:49:35 CDT

I've been thinking about some of the great advice given to me.

Never mix whites with colors in the wash
Always remove your makeup before going to bed
Reserve one hour each day for yourself
Find the joy in each day
Learn to laugh at yourself. Never take your self too seriously.
Chocolate solves most problems...or makes them bearable.
Stop talking and start listening---God gave us 2 ears, but only 1 mouth
If you can't say something nice, then say nothing at all
Start each day with a to-do list
Find time to do the things you enjoy -- and not just the things that you need to do
If you want something, be prepared to give something. Look for win-win solutions.
You're never too old to learn
You're never too old to have fun
There is no such thing as a stupid question --- ask
If you're indispensable, you're non-promotable
Remain calm
Never spend more than you make
Start your savings from your first paycheck
Always tithe. You will be blessed beyond measure.
Smile...it's contagious
Never tell a lie..it always leads to another
There's no "i" in team (and ignore those folks who say, but there is an "m" and "e")
Never hesitate to ask for help
Work to live, not live to work. Manage balance in your life.
Never lose your sense of humor, despite the circumstances.
Where there's a will--there's a way
"If you can dream it, you can do it" (Walt Disney)

Today you stand at the threshold of the unknown --- who knows what tomorrow will bring.
Before you lie new exciting opportunities and challenges, perhaps beyond imagination.
Embrace life.

My Work

just_tonya — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 00:14:37 CST

Research manager

My Wikis

just_tonya — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 00:07:34 CST

Welcome to my personal wiki directory. That's right. A summary and link to each of my wikis.

Hopefully you'll find something that interests, amuses, or informs you on my wikis.
Brighten my day: visit my wikis, join my communities, and share your comments and information at the sites!

Everything Wiki
	This wiki is located on Wetpaint and is designed to be THE BEST site on the Web for everything about wikis. Here are just a few of the topics on this website: Wiki 101, wiki history, wiki tips, wiki trivia, wiki widgets, wiki farms, wiki engines, and wiki case studies. There is also a wiki directory where you can find great wikis on many topics. Since it's a wiki, you can add case studies about your experience with wikis, profiles about your own wikis, and links to wikis that you recommend. If you're looking for more information about wikis or would like to share your expertise in creating and managing wikis, join our community there.
Bucket Lists
	This wiki is located on Wetpaint and was designed as a place to share your life list, your list of things to do before you kick the bucket. It's a place to get ideas on popular and incredible life goals and to see information on famous life listerse. You can provide helpful information to others on how to achieve common life goals. It's a place to log the simple contract with yourself, listing the goals you hope to accomplish during the rest of your life. On the site, you can also log your life list, share your progress, and encourage others too.
O Mania
	This site is dedicated to everything Oprah! Contribute what you know on this site! Also, add photos and videos to make the site more fun!
Cii Wiki
	This wiki is hosted on Wikispaces and was created to provide a resource for those considering computer-interactive interviewing (Cii), that is, using computers for conducting online surveys and polls. The website includes an introduction to online surveying, tips for planning surveys, and profiles of >140 survey software products, survey hosting services, and web poll services. If you're interested in conducting an online survey or poll, visit this site for information. If you've used a survey product or hosting service, post your feedback for others to review.

Other wikis:

Survey Research Central
This wiki is located on my company's intranet and is a central point for finding and posting information about surveys conducted internally with our employees. This wiki permits sharing of survey questionnaires and survey results, resources and contacts that may be helpful when conducting a survey with our employees, and a listing of the surveys we know that are current scheduled. Sorry, it's a private site that can only be accessed by employees of my company. If you're interested in creating a similar wiki in your company, contact me.

Wild About Wikis
This wiki, hosted here on Wetpaint, was created as a place for people to learn about wikis and to share information, tips, and techniques about creating and managing a wiki. Some topics included: Wiki 101, wiki trivia, wiklossary, wiki widgets, working with wikis, wiki wisdom, and wiki case studies. I've recently been asked to partner with the Wetpaint Crew on the newly designed Everything Wiki site. All the content from my Wild About Wikis site has been moved to the new wiki. It has a better URL, support from the Wetpaint Crew, and an existing community also interested in creating THE BEST site on the Web to learn everything about wikis! Visit me there at our new home and join our new community.

Wikis at Work
This wiki, hosted here on Wetpaint, was designed to be a site where you could log links to your favorite wikis. Now that the newly designed Everything Wiki site has a Wiki Directory section, I've moved all my content from the wiki to the new site. Visit us there at our new home, join the community, and add links to your favorite wikis.

My Blogs

just_tonya — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 00:03:10 CST

Welcome to my personal blog roll. That's right. A link to each of my blogs.

Hopefully you'll find something that interests, amuses, or informs you on my blogs.

Don't worry --- I took a little break over the holidays, but I'll soon have the blogs on a roll after a small home project is completed this month.

Brighten my day: post a comment, subscribe, and share my blogs!

My newest blog - Opinion Bait	We can learn about the best bait for catching opinions by reviewing the tools used by others. I collect surveys and questionnaires. I collect all kinds of questionnaires -- short, long, cute, clever, interesting, boring, great, horrible, etc. Share a survey with me. No, don't add me to your survey sample list. Just pick up the next customer sat survey questionnaire you see, scan it, and send it to me. You just may see that survey on the Opinion Bait blog.

My newest blog - Opinion Bait

We can learn about the best bait for catching opinions by reviewing the tools used by others. I collect surveys and questionnaires. I collect all kinds of questionnaires -- short, long, cute, clever, interesting, boring, great, horrible, etc. Share a survey with me. No, don't add me to your survey sample list. Just pick up the next customer sat survey questionnaire you see, scan it, and send it to me.
You just may see that survey on the Opinion Bait blog.

I Just Want to Celebrate!
	My goal is to remember at least one reason to celebrate each day. Regardless of the stress of the day and hectic schedules, I plan to take a moment each day to celebrate life. Hopefully you will find something on this blog to bring a smile to your face. I'm looking forward to the challenge. Join me on this adventure! Brighten someone's day and share a smile.
Wiki'd Ways
	Easy ways to build web content and collaborate with your community
Wiki'd Places
	Places on the Web where you can find interesting, informative, amusing, and entertaining wikis

Research Manager

just_tonya — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 16:21:07 CST

Six years experience as a certified project manager responsible for managing organizational research projects related to employee information technology (IT) satisfaction and productivity for the office of the Chief Information Office (CIO) in a large international company

Project management
A PMI-certified Project Management Professional (PMP) responsible for the implementation of a global research project, including the schedule, budget, scope, change management, communications planning, risk management, issue management, quality management, deliverables management, etc. and leadership of a global team of project managers and program managers responsible for data analysis and action planning based on research results

Research design
A primary researcher responsible for organizational research design and management, completing work products and deliverables through planning, development, implementation, administration (e.g., data collection), and reporting phases

Primary owner of the content, sample plan, reporting requirements, raw data, and reports
Responsible for sample planning and management, coordinating and sharing sample files with other researchers (as required) for excluding research participants in other research studies conducted within the same timeframe
Survey research design, including identifying data requirements for action planning and predictive modeling, questionnaire construction, and managing translation of the questionnaire in eleven languages
Responsible for obtaining all research approvals, including human resources, corporate and geographic Employee Survey Review, legal, works councils, etc
Invitee communications planning, including assessing the requirements specifications, scheduling, content development, managing translations in eleven languages, testing, and managing transmission
Data collection, including participation tracking and reporting
Weighting of results
Data analysis planning, including the identification of data analysis units, developing requests for services for advanced statistical analyses and text analyses, defining data file requirements, collaborating with statistical analysts to evaluate approaches for data analysis and results reporting, data cleaning, data dictionary definition, and creating data extracts with export labels
Data analysis, including the reviewing of quantitative, qualitative, demographic, and participation data with consultant analyses to evaluate results and to assist project stakeholders in action planning
Results communications planning, including executive communications, reports deliverables management, intranet communications, and customer briefings
Process improvement, including the review of project and process activities to identify areas of improvement and working with subteams to enhance data quality and improve action planning

Research consulting
A primary researcher providing guidance in research methods and research methods, questionnaire content reviews, assistance in sample planning, and advice about selecting survey software and survey hosting services

Host of the intranet-based Survey Central Wiki
Developer and content manager for a wiki-based site to

Share research plans
Coordinate research schedules
Facilitate survey research team management
Share translations of common demographic questions and response scales used across research studies
Share contacts and guidance in obtaining approvals for employee research, designing research, data collection, and data analysis

Music videos for your valentine

just_tonya — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 08:38:11 CDT

Bon Jovi, Thank you for loving me	Keith Urban, Making memories of us
Brad Paisley, She's everything	Tim McGraw and Faith Hill, I need you
Marc Anthony - I need you , I love you	3 Doors Down - Landing in London (All I think about is you)
Chuck Wicks - All I Ever Wanted

Five wiki services I have used

just_tonya — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 14:00:58 CDT

Wetpaint - I have created several wikis using this service and am a community member on others there too. This is my favorite of all services -- it's easy to create fun, interactive content. I was asked to partner with the Wetpaint Crew and they moved my content from Wild About Wikis to the Everything Wiki site. I'm now managing the content there. I'm a Superpainter too -- participating with a small group of selected Wetpaint users with the Wetpaint crew to review new features and to submit requirements.
Wikispaces - I built my first wiki using this service. It's nice and now has many of the features offered by Wetpaint. However, it does not have the community and wiki organizer support that is available on Wetpaint. Plus, you get only one free site there.
Stikipad - I no longer use this service and do not think that it has an active support team. I originally chose this service for the ability to set page access control and to use Google Adsense.
PBWiki - My site is no longer active on this service. I chose it before WYSIWYG editing was available -- and decided to move to a service which did not require any tags for my non-technical community.
Confluence - I manage a wiki on my company's intranet using this service. I also contribute content on other intranet wikis too. The enterprise wiki environment does not offer many of the features offered on the external wiki hosting services.

Plus one, I also am a community member for some wikis which run on MediaWiki (but I've not created a wiki using this)

The Buzz

just_tonya — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 11:29:45 CDT

August 5, 2008 - Surfing the World Wide Wiki
Everything Wiki was recommended in Jay Dougherty's article Surfing the World Wide Wiki posted in Time Out, a Gulf Times feature. The same article was published by Monsters and Critics.com in June, 2008.

July 8, 2008 - Never too young for a bucket list
The Bucket Lists wiki is mentioned on Mike Radomsky's blog on his blogpost about bucket lists

June 7, 2008 - Surfing the World Wide Wiki
Everything Wiki was recommended by Monsters and Critics.com in its Tech Features article on wikis and wiki directories.

June 4, 2008 - The Wiki Queen is De-Throned!
Susan Cline is relinquishing her "wiki queen" crown and shutting down the EduWikiTorial wiki. She kindly endorsed just_tonya's Wiki'd Ways blog and Everything Wiki.

May 24, 2008 - Plenty of celebrity star power at 92nd Indianapolis 500 - Dancing with the Stars
just_tonya's blogpost A first for women at the Indy 500 from I Just Want to Celebrate! was included on the Boxxet blog.

May 13, 2008 - Super Painter Spotlight: just_tonya
The May 2008 Super Painter of the month on Wetpaint -- a neat intro to just_tonya and her wikis on Wetpaint

January 29, 2008 - Using Wikis for Training Collaboration, Training Tech Talk (The Nielson Company)
Read the response from just_tonya published in Training Tech Talk for questions related to wiki use

Where have just_tonya's sites been tagged by others?

Wikimon Stumble'd upon Everything Wiki in February 2008 and provided a great review.

Miscellaneous

Everything Wiki is featured on walk2web

Wild About Wikis is referenced on Marc Rosenberg & Associates' web resources site

Blog Ideas

just_tonya — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:25:04 CDT

Date	Day of Week	I Just Want to Celebrate	Wiki'd Ways	Wiki'd Places
	Monday
	Tuesday
	Wednesday
	Thursday
	Friday
	Saturday
	Sunday

Favorite Music

just_tonya — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 03:24:10 CDT

This is SOOO much. This is just a start.

Faith:

Where is just_tonya

just_tonya — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 08:38:34 CDT

Tonya can generally be found deep in the heart of Texas.

As you're wandering around the Web, you can find just_tonya also at the places listed below.

Blogger	http://www.blogger.com/profile/04253519497785403897
del.icio.us	http://del.icio.us/just_tonya
MyBlogLog	http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/members/just_tonya/
Technorati	http://www.technorati.com/people/technorati/justtonya
Twitter	http://twitter.com/just_tonya

I'm also on Facebook and LinkedIn for people I know IRL. Message me for details

My Favorite Things

just_tonya — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 23:27:31 CDT

Homemade Ice Cream, chocolate, of course!	Shrimp, any way you can cook it!	Open highways	Chocolate!	Fishin' with the kids
Texas	Indy Car Racing	My Piano	My pipe organ	All-you-can-eat Catish at Rocky Creek with the fam!
Azaleas	the wacky world of wikis	Nascar racing	Playing the flute	The Ms Gulf Coast
Relaxing on the front porch, sitting in the swing	Christmas and Easter Pageants	The Great USA!	My Wiki'd Ways on Wetpaint - I'm a SuperPainter	Who's in charge? ME!
Teaching - the old fashioned way (with an interactive twist, of course!)	A North Texas-Ex	Texas Aggie!	Playing the harpsichord	Being an e-mentor
Attending my nephews' baseball games	Online organizational surveys - visit my Cii wiki	Performing in Piano Ensemble (8-hands)	Country Music	Attending my nephew's football games

Five things you may not know about me

just_tonya — Fri, 23 May 2008 01:17:12 CDT

I've won a hog calling contest.
I'm a high school drop-out, but have a PhD.
I came in third place at a hula dance contest in college.
I've ridden around the track at the Daytona Speedway.
I've survived five hurricanes.

Plus one: I was once the youngest teacher hired in the State of Texas

My Links

just_tonya — Thu, 22 May 2008 19:28:01 CDT

Top Five

just_tonya — Thu, 22 May 2008 19:16:05 CDT

Here's a collection of fun, interesting, informative, or entertaining facts or bits of information

Five bad math jokes
Five geeky headlines for statisticians
Five fav headlines for survey researchers
Five more fav headlines for survey researchers
Five fav videos from YouTube about wikis
Five hurricanes I've survived
Five professional organizations I've joined
Five reasons you don't see a pic of me
Five things you may not know about me
Five web locations you can find me
Five wiki services I have used

Favorite Videos

just_tonya — Thu, 22 May 2008 19:11:21 CDT

Here are links to some of my favorite videos:

Wikis
Music videos for your valentine
Birthdays

Birthdays

just_tonya — Thu, 22 May 2008 19:10:12 CDT

Special videos to celebrate birthdays

Happy Birthday	Happy Birthday - The Beatles

Favorite Wiki Videos

just_tonya — Thu, 22 May 2008 18:29:56 CDT

Wiki	Wiki Man by Very Tasteful
Wikis in Plain English	Blogs vs. Wikis
pb wiki - What is a wiki?	21 Days of Wiki Adoption by Stewart Mader