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From: John Sechrest <sechrest@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2004 19:56:15 -0800
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Thank you for your continued efforts to find the workable 
Compendium Elevator speech.    (01)



"Albert Selvin" <albert_selvin@hotmail.com> writes:    (02)

 % Just a couple of examples of other sorts of use of Compendium than those 
 % that Eugene discusses.
 % 
 % An HTML export of a tiny piece of one of my databases, some notes on the 
 % writer Ellen Dissanayake:  
 % http://kmi.open.ac.uk/people/selvin/examples/Example1.html
 % 
 % A jpg export of part of a "storybase" of some connected fiction (created by 
 % the jpg export from Compendium, with some kind of crude graphical links 
 % added after (the blue boxes) *:
 % http://kmi.open.ac.uk/people/selvin/examples/library-story.htm
 % 
 % Note-taking and meeting facilitation, subsets of a broader set of 
 % collaborative sensemaking approaches, have definitely been the dominant use 
 % cases of Compendium for most of its existence, along with more structured 
 % modeling and analytical uses. Plenty of papers describing these at 
 % http://www.compendiuminstitute.org/library/papers.htm.
 % 
 % But, to me, what's really interesting about Compendium is not any of these 
 % individually. It's the ability to interweave them, to create deep 
 % hypertexts, and to manipulate them in real time (as in live group sessions) 
 % without programming, as well as to be able to interchange the data and 
 % metadata created with other sorts of tools and approaches.
 % 
 % Tough to boil this down into a good elevator speech -- I've never been able 
 % to do it :-).
 % "
 % 
 % Al
 % 
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 % * Eventually there will be links exported along with the jpgs
 % 
 % >From: John Sechrest <sechrest@peak.org>
 % >Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2004 06:55:17 -0800
 % >
 % >Eugene Eric Kim <eekim@blueoxen.org> writes:
 % >
 % >  % I use Compendium (actually, I still use its predecessor, QuestMap,
 % >  % quite a bit) for three things:
 % >
 % >  %   * Occasionally for personal note-taking.  Usually as a poor man's
 % >  %     Visio.  I mostly use Wikis for personal note-taking, but I find
 % >  %     the graphical nature of Compendium useful on occasion.
 % >
 % >I have started to taking notes about graphical things in graphviz format.
 % >Is it just the node linking that is interesting?
 % >
 % >Or is it something else?
 % >
 % >
 % >
 % >
 % >
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