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- Hypertext for knowledge systems <sum05 1 8>
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- In looking at hypertext opportunities, I'd rank them as:
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- │ OPPORTUNITY COMMENTS │
- │ Creating PR hypertext Easy to be successful │
- │ Advertising hypertext Easy to test success │
- │ Documentation hypertext Needs larger commitment │
- │ Training hypertext Is a major step │
- │ Selling knowledge systems Most difficult - most profit │
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- Perceived Most people can easily comprehend the processes that
- cost transfer raw material into consumer and industrial goods.
- ========== For that reason, most objects have a perceived cost
- regardless of their benefits <link04>.
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- Different views: However, with products consisting primarily of easier access
- stealing objects to knowledge, some people believe this knowledge should be
- v. knowledge free to all. People who would never steal objects, for
- ============ example, do not hold the same attitudes toward ownership in
- information, copyrighted or not -- as evidenced by software
- duplication or photocoping.
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- Effort to Second, if, with great effort. you make the relationships in
- organize complex laws, policies, specifications, or regulations
- ======== intuitively obvious to others, some people would dismiss the
- intellectual efforts or cost with, "That's how it should be."
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- Comprehend only Consequently, if people feel that knowledge should be
- benefit, not free, they don't comprehend costs, or they dismiss organizing
- effort talents and efforts. Then, the selling such knowledge
- ====== systems will be difficult, in spite of the benefits.
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- Hypertext information packages are new. For that reason,
- selling pre-packaged information can be difficult because
- cost comparisons are not available, or more likely the
- fundamental defects in expert systems <link64> or in
- online textual databases <link26> are not well understood.
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- Knowledge Despite the potential drawbacks, I'm becoming a knowledge
- contracting contractor. This year, I'll make more mony from developing
- and selling completed knowledge systems <link10 1 4> than I
- will make from selling my software <link27>.
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- PS: I know people who are making six-figure incomes using my
- software to create hypertext for others.