This is from John Robb's Instant Outline - undated though I am sure he posted this on his blog at one point...
I acquired this thru subscribing to his Instant Outline in the Radio Tool & it's user interface.
All rights revert to John for the writing below the "Instant Outlining for collaboration and KM" heading - the other comments, thoughts & alliterations are mine though (with proper reference where appropriate).
This whole topic of Instant Outlining is a very interesting & promising set of technologies that can deliver a robust future for Collaboration - we'll have to see how & when these features make it into an integrated solution.
If you are a Radio User - you need to look for the Radio OPML icon on a user's weblog - that indicates that the user is interested in this & has an instant outline availabel for subscription.
OPML is the format used to implement this approach to outlining - it's also a robust presentation tool & can be used to drive a presentation interface that builds slides to be posted to an internet site as well.
LOTS of possibilities for this technology it seems :) ...
The most recent incarnations of this tool in Radio use Instant Messaging - both AIM & Jabber are available - to "subscribe" to another Radio user's Outline - there is an interface in Radio to see that a user has posted an update to his outline. Then you can go "view" his outline & see what's there to be "discussed".
This provides a much more robust way to communicate thoughts & ideas to others than just a simple instant messaging paradigm.
Please read on to see how John Robb positions this as a Collaboration & KM tool as well & the benefits in that arena.
BTW - true instant outlines lets these types of topics & subtopics be dynamically opened up & expanded as the user views them - although the "post to weblog" feature expands all items so they can be viewed - there is no immediately available capability without using a tool like activeRenderer. Theres' a nice bookmark piece to the tool that takes yuor browser bookmarks & makes them accesible on your weblog as well. Take a look at this piece of the technology too - it's neat :)...
This is a VERY robust platform for outlining & as you can see has attracted a flurry of developers to deliver tools & tweaks to features in Radio - it seems almost like an Open Source - freeWare - shareWare approach to tools - my oh my - another "platform" that attracts developers to delvier solutions based on it :)...
Instant Outlining for collaboration and KM
- What is instant outlining?
- A way to share, in real-time, structured thoughts, plans, and status reports with co-workers.
- Who should use instant outlining?
- Workgroups, lawyers, scientists, engineers, and structured thinkers of all types
- Anyone that wants to transcend the limited functionality provided by the current crop of instant messaging products.
- Send complex ideas instantly to co-workers.
- Keep tabs what other people in your team are doing via instant status reports
- Edit complex documents jointly
- Provide structured directories of resources for co-workers to use and leverage
- Benefits of instant outlining.
- Fewer e-mails.
- Better coordination.
- Higher quality communication.
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