Beyond The Yellow Bubble

Peter,

Peter. In relation to bloggers that put their hard work as downloadable pdfs on their own (or their company's) website, I would suggest that you also link to their presentation in its original location on their site, as opposed to copying the content and serving it through your library.

Peter, the real value of this tool is in the searching. I suggest you include a copy of the presentation inside the application but not publicly visible, so that it may be indexed. The actual download should then, to the extent possible, point back to the author's download site as Paul recommends. For presentations whose author(s) have no such site, you'll have to sort out those legal details.

Good points guys. I guess in my rush to share i didn't consider the possibility that there may be reasons people may not want there presentations included in such a library. Perhaps the best approach may be to remove the link to the actual presentation until I develop an approach that allows me to provide the option of linking to the original source or using a local copy. It certainly would be useful to have a record of the source for material anyway. Then i can reach out and see how many people actually are happy to have there presentations collected in a central library.

Thanks Peter. And by the by I think its a great idea on the whole.

I should also add. Anyone reading this who is cool in having their presentations included in the library (eg.the PDF) please leave a comment to that effect. That will speed up the process of getting some actual presentations back on-line.

I prefer we use slideshare - which is designed for sharing presentations. If more people used that and we created events there, it would give us what we want. sharing, download protection, easy inclusion on blogs and sites, and exposure. A custom solution doesn't help us outside the bubble.

@John - For my project it doesn't matter where people chose to house the physical presentation. It can be on slideshare, their ow Web site, or (if they wish) physically stored on yellowverse.com. I am trying to build a bridge between islands and not yet another island without any bridges. What yellowvsre.com will contain (as a minimum) is meta data about presentations and a link to the presentation - wherever it resides. Eventually I will provide tools that will allow people to add comments, ideas, questions, tags, add links to related material etc. Profiles about the authors of the presentations (displayed with the presentation abstract) will soon provide links to each persons Web site or blog. It's just a demonstration of one person's view of knowledge management and how the power of Notes can be used to "connect people and information"