possibilities
I'm continuously revising and expanding these notes. Let me know if you have a question, a thought or want to learn more.
- serendipitous discovery - what you find and who finds you
- generate word-of-mouth
- improve your services by learn what your community/customers want
- aggregate organizational/collective knowledge
- perhaps you don't need any of this
- outsource your IT (and save money and stop worrying about software upgrades)
- find and attract talented employees
- expand the impact of your training program
- have regular conversations by building your own online community
- get hyperlocal
- get global
- create your own dewey decimal system - tagging is a self-generated classification system
- share information and ideas that help contextualize your work, your activist focus, the thing you're selling
- re-use information in many different ways, from the same database
- collaborate on a book
- brainstorm with people in different places with the help of a shared online white board or mind map
- create an affordable, low-maintenance company intranet for your small office, whether you work in a single location or different spaces
- save money on overhead costs
- develop grassroots support
- find better ways to back up your data
- get more mileage from your presentations
- keep track of finances in new, more connected ways
- maintain access to what you need wherever you are
- tap into mobile technologies
- contribute to the development of new tools by using them and providing feedback to their creators
- overreaching expectations - none of this works without thinking it through
- make business connections
- more manageable ways to to keep up with information about your work, your play, your people
- back up your data for free (or very inexpensively)
