very fine post from UK-based Participo. The post was picked up by RSS Labs’ Bela, I assume from Pubsub. Also, note this fun post on Participo about personal worldmaps. Ah you gotta love this Web 2.0!
About Participo: We’re a consultancy based in Manchester,
UK. We use a collaborative and innovation-lead approach, empowering
groups to discover, learn and share their organisation’s knowledge and
ideas.
PowerPoint -> opml convertor
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looks interesting – a way to convert PowerPoint to OPML.
Interesting, because most of the thinking and intellectual output in
companies I’ve dealt with is exclusively locked in PowerPoint. People
think, create and share ideas in this hideous program, but sharing is via email.
And people in orgs are collaborating, they’re sending ppt’s back and
forth – editing eachother words, fleshing out ideas and building joint
visions.
So, if you want to get people to share outlines, and get opml in as
a file format into these eplaces, a ppt -> opml convertor is a smart
opening salvo…
The Outliner in PowerPoint is nonexistant, so maybe this will introduce other tools into the thinking workplace. It’ll take a lot to wean people off ppt addiction.
Plus PPT is notoriously inflexible as a shared format – far better to get it into searchable text.
And it’s interesting that the site is setup by Jim Moore, he of the $100mil RSS Fund.
Hmmm, Hust saw the post
on Jim Moore’s blog…interesting, he seems to be focused on the
shareability of opml as a format and therefore the need to get ppt
-> opml:
“My own rationale is that OPML can be a used as a universal knowledge format. OPML features outines in an open format that can be indexed, searched, shared, combined, and written and read with free tools.”
So opml becomes the de-facto, structured information sharing format? Makes a lot of sense.
(Via Dave Winer.)
