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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:
┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ 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 │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
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>.
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.
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."
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.
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.
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>.
PS: I know people who are making six-figure incomes using my
software to create hypertext for others.