Re: Knowledge Workshop Price Drops

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Note: This message is from the outliners.com archive kindly provided by Dave Winer.

Outliners.com Message ID: 3645

Posted by daly_de_gagne
2005-08-04 23:12:44

Dominik, thanks.

I’d be curious to know who actually buys KW. Its site has appeared as though it was trying to tap corporate and university markets. Perhaps that’s why the high price initially. However, I have the sense the strategy isn’t working.

Most new programs nowadays set up a forum, and as we see at UltraRecall. there’s a fair bit of traffic.

KW instead went the route of setting up internet user groups. While I amon a lot of lists, I stay away from the user groups because there’s too much spam, and the quality of posting often leaves much to be desired. When the program marketing thrust seems to emphasize information and communication it doesn’t appear congruant to go this way.

Also of interest: the press room page shows logos of different groups and publications that have written about KW. Outliners.com is one of them. I followed the link, and the initial posting appeared to be company inspired. The only response to it was from our own Steve Cohen, who wrote: “Well, I looked at some of the demos of Professional KnowledgeWorkshop ( http://www.lmsweb.com/product.htm ). It seems to be more concerned with establishing relationships/links among information items - mostly Web pages - than with Getting It OUT. There seems to be a lot of up-front work: Deciding how important an information item or part of of the item is. Establishing links between such info items, including the direction of the links, etc. You can make changes after the fact, but again it seems to be unnecessarily cumbersome and TIME CONSUMING. I think many of us realize now (if we didn’t earlier) that our real purpose in using PIMs is not to play with information, but rather to store it, make it easily accessible, and Get It Out in useful forms. Finally, the search function of KW is QUITE rudimentary.”

I am rather surprised that they keep the link to Outliners.com.

Daly

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