What we talked about at the CybozuMeetup on 2017-10-18

  • Both kintone and Scrapbox, from the standpoint of familiarity with them, cannot be replaced by other services, so people changing jobs will want to introduce them at their new companies.
  • But other people don’t understand how good it is.
    • Difficult to verbalize goodness.
  • Scrapbox needs some writing and more articles to see the value.
    • But when you introduce a new one and you’re the only one writing, it’s like, “This is where he writes.
    • How can we create a situation where all team members write?
  • Top-down implementation
    • For use in university laboratories such as Masui Lab, the teacher decides which tools to use.
    • In many cases, Qiita Teams are also being introduced by department leaders.
    • University labs replace about 25% of their people every year.
      • The turnover rate of college graduates within 3 years is 31% according to 2010 statistics, which is a very high turnover rate considering that university laboratories are 75% of the workforce.
  • To get them to try it out.
    • Not sure what to do first.
    • Twitter allows you to write without having to think “where to write”.
    • As for Scrapbox, on the other hand
      • I wonder if I could create a new page.”
      • What kind of content should I write about?”
      • ‘I wonder if I could rewrite an existing page?’
      • There are psychological hurdles such as
    • Maybe in the Masui Lab.
      • Instruction is being given to new students to create their own page and place images for icons.
      • There is already a page that is used like a one-line tree bulletin board with bullet points and face icons.
        • From the looks of it, you’re afforded “I can add my own writing here too.
      • The compulsion to use it is generated when the teacher assigns you an assignment to write something on a page somewhere.
      • Maybe there is a Slack for communication in the lab, and there is a channel there for update notifications.
    • In the Shiozawa Lab.
      • The compulsion to use Scrapbox’s collaborative editing to have students do short compositions in class.
        • You will witness collaborative editing, which is one of Scrapbox’s strengths
    • In the unexplored name list
      • First machine-generated personal pages for all unexplored parties involved.
      • Give more and more editing privileges to requests to update the description of your page.

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