Help:Helppage

Welcome to the Baker Institute's McNair Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation!

This page will get you - our newest team member - started on setting up your own account on the Wiki and navigating its content management prowess.

User Account

• Create a new acccount
• Login with existing account

User Page

Every McNair staff maintains his own personal wikipage, detailing administrative information and professional/academic background, alongside a short autobiography.

Refer to Dylan's Wikipage for inspiration. Or refer to the comprehensive staff list.

Create your own Wikipage by going to Form:McNair_Staff and filing out the form. On the first page of the form use your Full Name with spaces (like Ed Egan), not your username. Fill out the fields. For the image, upload one (see "Upload file" in the left Wiki sidebar) and just put the name of the file in the box (e.g. YourPic.jpg). Finally go to your user page (click your username at the top of the page), edit that page and include the following line:

#REDIRECT [[Full Name]]

Faculty Members to the McNair Center should also fill out a page. Please use this form Form:McNair_Faculty.

Working with the Wiki

At McNair, the Wiki is both home to developed content in the form of an independent public Wikipage, and developing content that will serve a academic paper, issue brief or blog post in the future. It is the research team's main tool for knwoledge sharing, pooling resources, writing and peer-editing.

To get started,

• Basic Wiki Markup Guide
• Complete Wiki Markup Documentation
• Text Layout Philosophy
• Wiki-appropriate Writing Style
• Forms and Templates
• When in doubt, contact Ed or ask a friend!

You should also be creating pages for identified topic areas and to keep track of your projects. Note that anything falling under projects will automatically secured internally and only available to McNair staff and faculty. If you would like a topic page to be secured internally place it under the Category Internal or Projects. If you try to create a page that already exists the form will redirect you to edit that page.

• Form:McNair_Topic_Areas
• Form:McNair_Projects

Working with the infrastructure

At McNair, key softwares and hard processing power is made accessible to your personal laptop through the Remote Desktop Connection. Follow link for instructions.

Good luck!

Publishing through McNair Accounts

Twitter

• Find one article per week and send it to the "twitter" Slack channel.
• Some twitter point person will collect all the new articles every Friday, write a short synopsis of them (>140 characters) and add the links in Hootsuite. They'll schedule when the week's worth of articles each go out from the McNair twitter account.
• Ramee Saleh is our twitter point person. She has access to Hootsuite as well. Contact her with any publishing questions.

Blog

• Find an issue related to entrepreneurship/innovation/McNair/Houston/Texas/whatever interests you that can be covered in ~500 words from the news.
• Create a wiki page for the blog post using Form:McNair Projects
  • For help categorizing your blog post, refer to Blog Post Categorization
  • Include (Blog Post) in your title
• Summarize the issue, adding your own analysis, backing it up with evidence, data, and attempting to keep it casual.
• Note: please make sure you present a balanced view (nothing which heavily leans to one side of the political aisle or the other).
• On the wiki page include:
  • Before you officially draft your post, put your notes, ideas, thoughts, and data you have gathered
  • References: all references go into a reference section of your wiki page
  • A googledoc link that is viewable by anyone at Rice and editable by Anne and Ed
  • Images for your post: all images must be creative commons licensed, include attribution in caption
  • An abstract for your post
• Be sure to link your blog post to your personal page
• After writing your article, send to Anne for review.

Once your text is publishable

• upload blog post into wordpress
• upload media files
• include the caption and any attribution for the photos and other illustrations in the caption area of the media file
• add all the links to your sources/references into the text
• Questions: how do you physically publish a blog post? should everyone always go through Anne before publishing or can it go through Carlin/Albert? Make it a goal to have content people publish 1 blog post/month? Make sure to use Twitter to publicize blog posts?

See Blog Post Best Practices for help on how to optimize the viewership of your blog posts and address issues in the "Analysis" tab of the wordpress blog site

Workday Norms

Work in progress by Carlin

1. Upon arrival at work, please sign in to the McNair RDP. This is how we track your physical attendance at McNair.
2. After signing into the RDP, please fill out your work log. This should include the hours you work that day as well as your intended accomplishments for the day (preferably with links to pages you worked on!)
3. Find at least one article per week related to entrepreneurship/another cool, related topic at Rice, Houston, in Texas, or in the United States. Post this article to the Slack #twitter channel.

"Everything that you see and hear and live is made by other people; feel free to change it." - Steve Jobs