On Sun, 5 Aug 2012, Miles Fidelman wrote:
Hi Melvin,
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1947703258/smart-notebooks-keeping-on-the-same-page-across-th
So... I'd really welcome any feedback on the questions who cares about
project management & collaboration tools, how to reach them, and what
might motivate them enough to take a look at what I'm doing?
Have you seen bettermeans?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAlnMWlvw9g
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAlnMWlvw9g>
Have now, and in a sense it's the exact opposite of I'm working on - it
imposes its view of how to manage collaboration, and it's a centralized
system.
Most of the feedback I'm getting has been telling me that I need to to a
better job of differentiating what I'm doing from the mass of project
management products and services, so...
1. Simplicity: The model is more about keeping everyone on the same page
(like actors following the same script) than about lots of process. In the
case of project management, a script looks more like a list of action items -
hence the reason that an awful lot of project managers end up simply keeping
track of things in spreadsheets. The trick is how to share the same "script"
across the net.
2. Distributed and Peer-to-Peer: If you're happy with sharing a GoogleDocs
spreadsheet, this project isn't for you. If you like linked spreadsheets,
but wished they actually worked across the net, and used open formats and
protocols - that's what I'm shooting for. Write an action item list in a
spreadsheet-like format, email it to collaborators, then as folks update
things, those updates propagate automagically - no sorting through tons of
emails to extract updates. (Also allow more wiki-like things, for Q&A,
background materials, etc. - again, distributed rather than all running on a
central machine).
3. Open everything.
Perhaps just limited encrypted Usenet?
Also perhaps:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/joeyh/git-annex-assistant-like-dropbox-but-with-your-own
with a daemon that labels files, presents histories, and such like.
oo--JS.
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