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CONTACTS
0201 - Poremba Consulting
020101 - Mr. Michael Poremba; 415 819 9660
SUBJECTS
SDS Development Interface Inquiry to Improve SDS
Poremba, Mike Interested in Working on SDS Interface Seems Familiar w
Poremba, Mike Meeting to Observe SDS and Discuss Com Metrics
Agenda Requested for Meeting Mike Requests
2706 -
2706 - ..
2707 - Summary/Objective
2708 -
270801 - Follow up ref SDS 50 0068.
270802 -
270803 - Received ref DRT 1 0001 from Mike submitting a proposed agenda for a
270804 - meeting he suggested in his letter received on 021206, ref SDS 50 0001
270805 - At that time an email to Mike asked for agenda ideas. ref SDS 50 0068
270807 - ..
270808 - A copy went to Gary Johnson for comments, ref DRT 1 00W3, per planning
270809 - on 021206. ref SDS 50 WC6K
270811 - ..
270812 - Submitted an email to Mike proposing a meeting next week to discuss
270813 - his agenda. By that time Gary may be able to submit additional issues
270814 - and/or perspective to make discussion with Mike productive.
270815 -
270816 - [On 021213 meeting scheduled for 021218 1000. ref SDS 52 0001
270817 -
270818 - [On 021214 Gary submitted comments. ref SDS 53 HN5G
270820 - ..
270821 - Mike's email today is in HTML format; took about 30 minutes to
270822 - organize into a workable instrument, per request on 021206.
270823 - ref SDS 50 DX3H
270825 - ..
270826 - This sets a good baramoter for productivity. As we go forward, can
270827 - work on getting this down to a few minutes or less. That would save a
270828 - lot of time and money.
270829 -
270831 - ..
270832 - Agenda for Meeting with Mike Poremba
270833 -
270834 -
270835 - Overview
270836 -
270837 - 1. Feedback on the analysis I sent to you and Gary What are
270838 - your thoughts on the following:, ref DRT 1 M08K
270840 - ..
270841 - Rewrite POIMS and Communication Metrics
270842 -
270843 - Rod, what's your response to my suggestion of rewriting
270844 - these documents?
270845 -
270846 - Have not seen where Mike has presented this idea. Need
270847 - link to the record showing analysis of objectives and
270848 - work plan??
270849 -
270850 - [On 021214 Gary Johnson support's publishing writing
270851 - to explain SDS and Com Metrics using professional
270852 - authors. ref SDS 53 36GH
270854 - ..
270855 - Gary Johnson proposed on 021119 work on POIMS and NWO.
270856 - ref SDS 46 VP4I
270858 - ..
270859 - This afternoon, John Deneen discussed getting some
270860 - articles written on SDS, which is somewhat in the area
270861 - Mike discusses today. ref SDS 51 QD6K
270863 - ..
270864 - [On 021217 Mike concerned that others might "steal" or take
270865 - advantage of ideas in SDS without crediting Welch. ref SDS 54
270866 - 3Z9K
270867 -
270869 - ..
270870 - SDS Progress Since Meeting With Mike on 020522
270871 -
270872 -
270873 - 2. Conversation on status of SDS project
270874 -
270875 - Rod, I'd like to hear how things are progressing regarding
270876 - SDS. As you know, I'm interested in what you've come up
270877 - with, and would love to see it advanced beyond your own
270878 - personal use. ref DRT 1 056F
270880 - ..
270881 - [On 021217 Mike concerned that others might "steal" or take
270882 - advantage of ideas in SDS without crediting Welch. ref SDS 54
270883 - 3Z9K
270885 - ..
270886 - a. On 020729 met with Pat Lincoln and agreed on draft
270887 - language for endorsement letter by SRI. Finalization of
270888 - the draft is pending completion by Rod. ref SDS 33 4K6G
270890 - ..
270891 - b. Prior to meeting with Pat, on 020608 the manager of IBM's
270892 - KM program, Dave Snowden, reported in an article that KM
270893 - has failed, ref SDS 30 ZN6I, further showing there is no
270894 - competition for the SDS program.
270896 - ..
270897 - c. For example, in August new information demonstrated a
270898 - powerful KM dilemma. Key aspects of KM design proferred
270899 - over the past few years have been abandoned by KM
270900 - experts....
270902 - ..
270903 - KM experts fail to perform KM.. 020812, ref SDS 34 TV9K
270904 - Linking abandoned.............. 020820, ref SDS 35 UV6G
270905 - Accuracy abandoned............. 020820, ref SDS 36 V66I
270906 - Analysis advocated but not
270907 - performed...................... 020822, ref SDS 37 IO7G
270908 - Metadata (organize) abandoned.. 021031, ref SDS 42 VX4J
270910 - ..
270911 - This record shows that KM remains a secret of SDS under
270912 - the record on 000425, ref SDS 15 0480, and for the reasons
270913 - on 010924. ref SDS 24 JS6G
270915 - ..
270916 - d. POIMS explains that converting information into knowledge
270917 - takes "intelligence" comprised of organization, analysis,
270918 - alignment, summary and feedback. ref OF 2 0367 People
270919 - have tried in various ways to support organization,
270920 - analysis and alignment individually, but now abandon
270921 - these ingredients as unnecessary overkill, because each
270922 - by itself makes no appreciable increase in productivity.
270923 - Only an integrated design makes any of the ingredients
270924 - effective, because they are complementary. This is hard
270925 - to discover, especially since two (2) more ingredients
270926 - are needed that so far have not been addressed. The
270927 - result is an innovation loop causing people to return to
270928 - the comfort of information management that is well
270929 - understood from experience over the past two millennia.
270931 - ..
270932 - Lack of competition is an advantage. No competition,
270933 - however, presents credibility issues, and where many have
270934 - tried with great effort and expectation, illustrated by
270935 - the meeting at SRI on 000324, ref SDS 14 4877, the
270936 - disappointment of failure causes feelings of doubt and
270937 - anger that prevent acceptance of successful initiatives,
270938 - like SDS, e.g., on 010426, ref SDS 22 657O, and earlier
270939 - on 001126. ref SDS 20 T63N In other words, without
270940 - competitors, frustration, skepticism, envy and despair,
270941 - poisen the wells of desire to improve, and weaken
270942 - emotional strength to investigate and pilot test SDS. As
270943 - with all things, the binary structure of competition has
270944 - plusses and minuses.
270946 - ..
270947 - e. Lack of competition under para b - d should strengthen
270948 - SRI's endorsement of SDS because powerful dilemmas seem
270949 - to prevent discovering a KM design by others, observed by
270950 - Eric Armstrong on 001122, ref SDS 19 0001 If there is to
270951 - be progress, SDS is the only real choice for the period
270952 - ahead. This proposition has taken a few months to
270953 - capture and understand, while working on other tasks, per
270954 - below, ref SDS 0 WT36, but, now we are nearing completion
270955 - and so are prepared to propose a stronger endorsement by
270956 - SRI.
270958 - ..
270959 - f. Learned on 020820 that people are giving up on accuracy
270960 - because linking for an audit trail to organizational
270961 - memory takes too much time using Microsoft technology
270962 - that everybody likes. ref SDS 35 O1QQ This experience
270963 - causes a mental block that prevents people from using
270964 - other tools to save time and money. On 020905 contacted
270965 - engineer with DCMA and did an experiment to prove people
270966 - can learn to use good management in a few seconds, and
270967 - this experience enables discovery that SDS makes good
270968 - management fast and easy. ref SDS 39 DH6G
270970 - ..
270971 - g. Learned that good theory and good explanation alone do
270972 - not help people overcome ignorance, fear and denial that
270973 - good management saves time and money. Since human mental
270974 - biolody creates an overwhelming tendency to get by using
270975 - bad management, explained in POIMS, ref OF 2 8536, only
270976 - direct personal experience and the weight of experience
270977 - by others can help people adopt a new way of working to
270978 - save time and money, under the rule that experience is
270979 - the best teacher, noted by Einstein, reviewed on 991124.
270980 - ref SDS 13 3066 Experience by others associated with
270981 - links to theory helps educate people about potential for
270982 - improvement, and removes the stigma of being out of step
270983 - with the surrounding culture, described as arcane on
270984 - 020823, ref SDS 38 NS9M, and funny and alien on 990713.
270985 - ref SDS 12 2150
270987 - ..
270988 - An example, is Mike's comment during the meeting on
270989 - 020522 that only Rod is doing Knowledge Management, and
270990 - this causes others to give up, ref SDS 28 ZC6G, cited on
270991 - 020608. ref SDS 30 QV5G
270993 - ..
270994 - h. As a result, asked Gary Johnson to try SDS in order to
270995 - determine if other people can save time and money using
270996 - good management practice. On 020924 Gary received the
270997 - SDS program. ref SDS 40 0001 After ironing out some
270998 - installation issues, e.g., on 021109, ref SDS 44 YX7I,
270999 - Gary has made good progress learning and using SDS.
271001 - ..
271002 - Review on 021126 shows work on adding links between daily
271003 - working information, and discussion of KM, SDS and Com
271004 - Metrics linked to explanations on implementing POIMS,
271005 - NWO, and other publications, ref SDS 48 WZQY, per
271006 - planning on 011210 for growing a culture of knowledge
271007 - that fosters new attitudes. ref SDS 26 516O
271009 - ..
271010 - i. On 021125 began considering phase II of Gary becoming
271011 - involved with SDS that will consider over the next few
271012 - weeks developing ideas for product development. Target
271013 - date for submission is 030110. ref SDS 47 YF35
271015 - ..
271016 - j. During this period when Gary has been learning SDS, he
271017 - has encouraged important improvements, and contributed on
271018 - getting things done, e.g., on 021027, ref SDS 41 0001,
271019 - and on 021119, ref SDS 45 0001 This improved progress on
271020 - program development, but delayed analysis of the record
271021 - on KM dilemma's that is needed to finalize the
271022 - endorsement from SRI, per above, ref SDS 0 WS98, because
271023 - of limited time, as Mike notes below. ref SDS 0 7M7R
271025 - ..
271026 - k. Successful experience with Gary learning and using SDS
271027 - has led to efforts for others to try.
271029 - ..
271030 - John Deneen was here today about installing SDS for a
271031 - similar 3 month evaluation, aimed at supporting
271032 - marketing. John's interest in SDS is based on work with
271033 - the OHS/DKR effort. ref SDS 51 4LO4
271035 - ..
271036 - Bill DeHart will get SDS installed this weekend on
271037 - 021214. Bill works at PG&E, and was favorably impressed
271038 - by experience using SDS work product, as shown in his
271039 - memo on 941229. ref DRP 2 0001
271041 - ..
271042 - l. Getting more people using SDS and putting records on the
271043 - Internet demonstrate that anyone can use good management
271044 - to save time and money. This changes attitudes that
271045 - resist improvement, noted by Gary Johnson on 020618.
271046 - ref SDS 31 MU6H Mike asked about the number of people
271047 - using SDS during the meeting on 020522. ref SDS 28 01QR
271048 -
271049 - [On 021228 SDS records saved time and money; request
271050 - to keep up good work. ref SDS 55 JI6O
271052 - ..
271053 - m. Getting more people linking explanations of SDS and
271054 - anlaysis of KM to theory of Com Metrics in POIMS, NWO,
271055 - Typical Day Scenario and other publications on SDS, makes
271056 - ideas more familiar on adding intelligence to managemnt
271057 - by integrating time and information to grow knowledge. As
271058 - explained above, ref SDS 0 WS5N, writing with links
271059 - between work product and underlying theory that enables
271060 - the work product educates people through repeated
271061 - exposure to a new way of working, explained on 001219.
271062 - ref SDS 21 4W4L
271064 - ..
271065 - n. Should finalize endorsement from SRI in next few weeks,
271066 - and if Pat Lincoln is still favorable to endorsement,
271067 - then will use this to attract interest of others.
271069 - ..
271070 - o. Want to obtain endorsement from Tom Benero a contracting
271071 - officer for the US government, who worked with SDS at
271072 - USACE in 1996, and recently agreed to consider
271073 - endorsement, which may be helpful in securing an order.
271075 - ..
271076 - 3. Brief report on the status of my own web application for
271077 - collaborative writing, ref DRT 1 00WS
271079 - ..
271080 - To catch you up on what I've accomplished in the past
271081 - half-year, and some key lessons that I've learned along the
271082 - way.
271083 -
271085 - ..
271086 - Review progress regarding SDS
271087 -
271088 - 1. Accomplishments to date
271089 -
271090 - Results of Gary's analysis and trial, ref DRT 1 5P4U
271091 -
271092 - See comments above. ref SDS 0 SH3F
271094 - ..
271095 - 2. Current strategy
271096 -
271097 - a. Strategy for re-implementing SDS, ref DRT 1 0586
271098 -
271099 - What kind of strategy is most appealing?
271101 - ..
271102 - 1. Re-implement SDS as a Windows or Java application
271103 - Targeted towards individual end-users.
271104 -
271105 - See discussion on Gary's review, above.
271106 - ref SDS 0 7L44
271107 -
271108 - See discussion of targeting end users, above.
271109 - ref SDS 0 WT4J
271111 - ..
271112 - On 020531 Mike commented on difficulty creating
271113 - SDS as a Java application because requirements
271114 - for responsiveness to leverage thinking would be
271115 - difficult to accomplish using web-applications
271116 - with records on the Internet. ref SDS 29 5W9J
271118 - ..
271119 - [On 021214 Gary Johnson comments that Java may
271120 - not an effective method to implement SDS.
271121 - ref SDS 53 LN5G
271123 - ..
271124 - [On 060211 Open Iris Java web-application SRI
271125 - CALO project sponsored by DARPA, ref SDS 57
271126 - YY5K, seems conflicting with mistaken worry on
271127 - 030527 about loss of confidentiality using SDS
271128 - records not produced on the Internet,
271129 - ref SDS 56 ZU3G; pilot test indicates Iris too
271130 - slow for supporting daily work. ref SDS 57
271131 - 055L
271133 - ..
271134 - 2. Integrate key functionality into more sophisticated
271135 - tools For example, Knownspace Helium ref DRT 1 1696
271136 -
271137 - Need analysis showing Knownspace capabilities
271138 - and ability to support SDS functions.
271140 - ..
271141 - 3. Focus on selling management consulting services
271142 -
271143 - What about SDS? ref DRT 1 00YW
271144 -
271145 - Meeting with John Deneen today focused on plans
271146 - for selling SDS product and consulting services,
271147 - ref SDS 51 4J5I,
271149 - ..
271150 - Efforts to get others using SDS and producing
271151 - records makes it harder for customers to avoid
271152 - opportunity to save time and money. Selling to
271153 - individuals often turns on quirky issues
271154 - day-to-day, but fostering a culture of knowledge
271155 - builds inertia that may one day explode into a
271156 - new market that demands technology for saving
271157 - time and money. Our goal is to continue
271158 - improving ability to save time and money.
271160 - ..
271161 - b. Work plan
271162 -
271163 - What are your next steps? ref DRT 1 06ZH
271164 -
271165 - 1. There are so many ideas in SDS that are worthy of
271166 - re-implementing elsewhere Ease-of-use will be
271167 - important.
271169 - ..
271170 - [On 021217 Mike concerned that others might "steal" or take
271171 - advantage of ideas in SDS without crediting Welch. ref SDS 54
271172 - 3Z9K
271174 - ..
271175 - Ease of use may not be the issue Mike has in
271176 - mind. Integrated design and flexible structure
271177 - of SDS make good management fast and easy, as
271178 - explained in POIMS, ref OF 2 M17I, but this will
271179 - never be as easy as bad management, as reported
271180 - on 000920. ref SDS 17 T33H SDS is more fun than
271181 - bad management, as explained in 001004,
271182 - ref SDS 18 6N9G, but requires learning and using
271183 - SDS over a period of time to experience deferred
271184 - rewards of knowledge.
271186 - ..
271187 - Ease of learning is a bigger challenge under the
271188 - record on 890809, ref SDS 1 6162, and on 920215.
271189 - ref SDS 2 5820 Later on 960721 people are afraid
271190 - about learning to press buttons that make saving
271191 - time and money fast and easy. ref SDS 7 W474
271192 - People have a biological drive for "effectance"
271193 - in order to survive, see on 950710. ref SDS 6
271194 - 0738 Investing time to learn delays getting
271195 - things done in the moment hoping to be more
271196 - effective after learning new skills. Learning
271197 - however is frustrating when performed through
271198 - trial and error. People prefer to avoid the
271199 - trauma of not being effective by continuing to
271200 - rely, instead, on doing familiar things in
271201 - familiar ways that are effective in some degree,
271202 - noted by Grove, reviewed on 980307. ref SDS 8
271203 - 3740 Convincing people to voluntarily experience
271204 - frustration from giving up familiar ways to
271205 - acquire new skills for pressing buttons, requires
271206 - proof of reward, or direction from management,
271207 - noted by Grove also on 980307, ref SDS 9 1660,
271208 - under Drucker's analysis of theory X and thery Y
271209 - methods to change attitudes, reviewed on 931130.
271210 - ref SDS 5 9677 Gary Johnson notes this is a
271211 - continuing challenge for SDS, as it is for
271212 - Microsoft under Bill Gates' announcement on
271213 - 021108 that Microsoft plans to integrate commands
271214 - to improve productvitity, like SDS does.
271215 - ref SDS 43 EFBE Winning customers for saving
271216 - time and money requires evidence that tools and
271217 - skills improve the work. Higher rewards for
271218 - better management, especially at the level of
271219 - thinking, remembering and communicating, are not
271220 - well established in the liturature. USACE's
271221 - report on 971007 provides some evidence of higher
271222 - rewards using SDS. ref DRP 4 0001 SDS records on
271223 - the Internet provide proof that better work can
271224 - be created consistently, which some people
271225 - recognize in varying degrees, shown on 010907,
271226 - ref SDS 23 0P8P Consulting and/or a professional
271227 - role shows the model of a pilot to "fly" SDS,
271228 - explained in NWO, ref OF 4 6369, that enables
271229 - transformation without everyone having to learn
271230 - to push new buttoms all at once.
271232 - ..
271233 - This means there are specific things to work on
271234 - to influence transformation...
271235 -
271236 - 1. Make SDS easier to learn within existing
271237 - attitudes.
271238 -
271239 - The record on 990530 shows how; it explains
271240 - linking in SDS has always been fast and
271241 - easy by pushing buttons. But learning to
271242 - push buttons in the right sequence took
271243 - trial and error. This was frustrating so
271244 - people decided linking is overkill, per
271245 - above. ref SDS 0 7M3J On 990530 steps for
271246 - linking were consolidated into a single
271247 - step of pressing Enter or double clicking.
271248 - ref SDS 11 EI50 That is fast and easy to
271249 - do and to learn, and so changes attitudes
271250 - about using good management to improve
271251 - accuracy, which is the purpose of links.
271253 - ..
271254 - 2. Demonstrate many people can produce SDS
271255 - records so that working intelligently does
271256 - not seem beyond reach, and so does not
271257 - incite attitudes that good management is
271258 - overkill.
271260 - ..
271261 - 3. Present evidence of rewards from saving
271262 - time and money that change attitudes.
271264 - ..
271265 - 4. Do assignments to increase the evidence
271266 - showing rewards that change attitudes.
271268 - ..
271269 - 5. Provide Com Metrics services that enable
271270 - people to discover benefits without having
271271 - to learn to push new buttons, which grows
271272 - desire to exercise the power of knowledege
271273 - that changes attitudes about learning.
271274 -
271276 - ..
271277 - 2. Porting SDS to another environment is, essentially,
271278 - a rewrite There's no such thing as an application
271279 - "port" that involves changing programming
271280 - environments. These are called application
271281 - "rewrites". ref DRT 1 170F
271282 -
271283 - See planning above. ref SDS 0 7L44
271285 - ..
271286 - 3. A rewrite should progress in small steps Modern
271287 - software development usually involves continuous
271288 - incremental improvement through a series of many
271289 - low-risk goals, rather than large ambitious
271290 - projects. ref DRT 1 P1QP
271291 -
271292 - One initial goal is to update the C version of
271293 - Medit to support SDS to use memory above DOS
271294 - limit of 640K.
271296 - ..
271297 - Once that is accomplished, progress may be
271298 - possible on the user interface without complete
271299 - re-write. Experience working with SDS helps
271300 - people understand what to re-write.
271302 - ..
271303 - 4. No one person can do it themselves You're talking
271304 - about a multi-person project. ref DRT 1 0QQU
271305 -
271306 - Good point.
271308 - ..
271309 - 5. Recouping on investment is challenging Covering the
271310 - costs of creating such software applications is
271311 - challenging. Profiting is even more difficult.
271312 - ref DRT 1 01QX
271313 -
271314 - Launching disruptive technology is often slow and
271315 - challenging for developers, and more so for
271316 - established manufacturers driven by the need to
271317 - generate revenue to produce what customers say
271318 - they want, and so must ignore investment to
271319 - discover what customers need. When customers
271320 - eventually get around to wanting what they need,
271321 - the established order is disrupted. Small firms
271322 - able to adjust grow, and large firms driven by
271323 - cultural inertia of past success decline, as
271324 - reported on 990527. ref SDS 10 1890 and
271325 - ref SDS 10 4077 An example is the record on
271326 - 990713. ref SDS 12 2150
271328 - ..
271329 - 6. Few people have such a practical vision of
271330 - information management. ref DRT 1 01RR
271332 - ..
271333 - [On 021217 Mike concerned that others might "steal" or take
271334 - advantage of ideas in SDS without crediting Welch. ref SDS 54
271335 - 3Z9K
271336 -
271337 - But how to exploit it? ref DRT 1 01RR
271338 -
271339 - IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, and many other excellent
271340 - companies have a powerful vision for information
271341 - management, explained in the record on 931008.
271342 - ref SDS 3 2526 POIMS explains success advancing
271343 - the vision of information management has created
271344 - a new world order that compresses time and
271345 - distance, ref OF 2 0307, which necessarily grows
271346 - demand for solving the growing mountain of
271347 - problems caused by information management that
271348 - overwhelm human capacity to cope in a more
271349 - complex world.
271351 - ..
271352 - The vision of Com Metrics is to advance beyond
271353 - information management by adding intelligence to
271354 - grow knowledge through a concept of investing
271355 - intellectual capital. ref OF 2 1101 POIMS
271356 - describes a spreadsheet for knowledge and
271357 - Knowledge Space. ref OF 2 034J Information in
271358 - this vision is an ingredient that drives demand
271359 - for SDS work product, called the "record,"
271360 - "intelligence," "knowledge," "ideas," see POIMS.
271361 - ref OF 2 2300
271363 - ..
271364 - Exploiting knowledge management requires having a
271365 - solution available when demand rises to the level
271366 - of intolerance for bumbling, loss, conflict,
271367 - crisis and calamity under the status quo using
271368 - information management. At this time, evidence
271369 - reported on 000425 indicates SDS is the only
271370 - solution available, ref SDS 15 0480, and is likely
271371 - to remain so for reasons on 010924. ref SDS 24
271372 - JS6G Making the SDS solution fast and easy to
271373 - learn lowers the bar of frustration people must
271374 - experience in order to try a new way of working,
271375 - per point 1. ref SDS 0 7M3J In any case, these
271376 - are opposing curves, rising and descending. When
271377 - rising demand from the failure of information
271378 - management crosses the falling level of effort to
271379 - learn SDS, sales should rise to exploit the
271380 - vision of Com Metrics.
271381 -
271382 -
271383 -
271384 -
271385 -
271386 -
271387 -
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SUBJECTS
Outline Program Eric Consulting to Assist Mike Poremba Develop Outlin
Outline Program Venture Failed 20 Years Ago
4204 -
420501 - ..
420502 - Mike's Outline Program Nearing Completion
420503 -
420504 - Follow up ref SDS 50 TG92.
420505 -
420506 - Mike continues...
420507 -
420508 - Developing a web-based collaborative writing tool Since we last
420509 - met, I've made good progress on my web site for collaborative
420510 - writing. ref DRT 1 5Q6P
420512 - ..
420513 - 1. Accomplishments to date
420514 -
420515 - a. Web-based outline editor
420516 -
420517 - Works in IE/Windows
420518 -
420519 - Is the email received today an example of work
420520 - product?
420522 - ..
420523 - How will Mike's Outline feature fare in relation to
420524 - 90% of Microsoft features under Windows and IE that
420525 - users evidently ignore, according to Bill Gates,
420526 - interviewed on 021108? ref SDS 43 EFBE
420528 - ..
420529 - b. Backend database for storing outlines
420530 -
420531 - Relational database for storing managed content.
420532 - ref DRT 1 628U
420533 -
420534 - Is there an example of "managed" content and/or an
420535 - explanation that shows what people do to create
420536 - managed content, and how this saves time and money?
420538 - ..
420539 - c. Basic user registration and authentication system
420540 -
420541 - Allows user to create an account, log into secure web
420542 - site, and maintain account. ref DRT 1 01TX
420543 -
420544 - Is this the way weblogs work?
420546 - ..
420547 - d. Secure spaces for collaborating on outlines
420548 -
420549 - Backend support for secure shared workspaces where users
420550 - can collaborate on writings. ref DRT 1 01US
420551 -
420552 - How is outlined content integrated with other
420553 - content?
420555 - ..
420556 - e. User home page
420557 -
420558 - A user's index of their content. ref DRT 1 01UX
420559 -
420560 - Is this like metadata reviewed recently on 021031?
420561 - ref SDS 42 VX4J
420563 - ..
420564 - 2. Current work plan
420565 -
420566 - a. Business strategy
420567 -
420568 - 1. Meet with Eric Armstrong for his perspective
420569 -
420570 - Eric has offered to serve as a sounding board for
420571 - ideas on how I should direct my focus to exploit the
420572 - technology I've developed. ref DRT 1 01VR
420573 -
420574 - Eric has important experience developing outline
420575 - products, reported on 000517. ref SDS 16 N25M
420577 - ..
420578 - Discussed similar issues with Mike on 020522.
420579 - ref SDS 28 XM9F
420581 - ..
420582 - 2. Gain user base Goal is to get to 25 users who
420583 - have logged in 25 times. Product can then be called
420584 - successful, and worthy of following through on a
420585 - business plan. Until then, it's all talk.
420587 - ..
420588 - b. Development
420589 -
420590 - 1. Improve usability of user home page, ref DRT 1 01WT
420591 -
420592 - 2. Finish tools for the creation and management of user
420593 - workspaces, ref DRT 1 12XY
420595 - ..
420596 - 3. Improve collaboration features, ref DRT 1 01XQ
420597 -
420598 - Are there examples of work product that improve
420599 - collaboration, as discussed in NWO? ref OF 4 4077
420601 - ..
420602 - 4. Enhance existing editor to work in other browsers
420603 - IE/Mac and Mozilla support. ref DRT 1 01XS
420604 - ..
420605 - 5. Add functionality for threaded discussions.
420606 - ref DRT 1 MU5L
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Distribution. . . . See "CONTACTS"