"Garold L. Johnson" wrote:
>
> In thinking about the nature of collaboration and knowledge
> organization, I have come to the conclusion that an OHS has to
> be usable by a single individual for personal knowledge
> organization and thinking if it is to be truly useful.
>
Yay!!!!
(In case there is any doubt, I agree.)
> I can’t (easily) reference other information I might have, or other
> emails in this discussion.
>
Yeah.
> While there is an outline mode, it is rather primitive and doesn’t
> provide any support for accessing other information.
>
Yup.
> ...if I have to use a different tool to collaborate via an
> OHS than (the one) I use to organize my own thoughts, ideas, and
> information, then there is a barrier to collaboration that I think
> is unnecessary.
>
And so counterproductive as to make it difficult to use.
> Therefore, I believe that for an OHS to be successful in the sense of
> being well and continually used, it must scale from my personal use up to
> whatever larger collaborations I support.
>
Yes, yes, and yes.
> I want to be able to use the same tool that I use to support knowledge
> collaboration to manage my own personal information on my own personal
> machine without requiring external servers or any other
> infrastructure. I should be able to synchronize the various places
> that I create information – home, work, a laptop, a PDA or palm
> computer, etc.
>
And *integrate* the information you connect with by virtue of
interacting
with knowledge spaces shared by groups you associate with.
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