LIVENET

A WORKSPACE NETWORK
for the Collaborative Knowledge Sharing

OVERVIEW

What is a workspace

What are knowledge sharing relationships

Where to use LiveNet

USING LIVENET

User guide

LiveNet SOLUTIONS

Application to teaching

DESIGN ISSUES

Design Methods

Workspace structure

SOME TECHNICAL ISSUES

Technical architecture

LiveNet can add value to enterprise information resources by bringing together the tacit and explicit knowledge together to focus on new and emerging goals.

LiveNet allows workspaces that bring information and people together to share knowledge between them and to capture this knowledge for further use. LiveNet can be used to create workspace networks, where each workspace supports one activity, but where the workspaces can be networked to support work processes made up of many activities. People in each workspace can share their tacit and explicit knowledge and develop new knowledge and pass it to other workspaces.

It does this by combining four major dimensions.

PROCESS FLEXIBILITY
to easily build and change workspaces for users to share knowledge

MANAGING
RELATIONSHIPS
knowledge processes through flexible role structures LiveNet
bringing all knowledge together
and providing role structures and tools to create new knowledge SHARING
where tacit and explicit knowledge can be exchanged easily between and within groups

EASE TO SET UP
so that a user can set up a workspace without any assistance

Its main advantage is that LiveNet is easy to use - users or system administrators can themselves set up workspaces to suit particular work environments. Interfaces are provided for administrators or workgroup leaders to create workspaces and customize them for end-users. End-users are provided with simple task oriented interfaces.

Distributing Information

It is ideal for distributing information and getting back comments in a consolidated easy to organize ways In this way you can get help in solving a problem, or advice on a proposal.

LiveNet can be used to set up workspaces very quickly without calling any system programmer. You just go and do it.

Providing support tools

A workspace can contain any number of supporting tools. This can include support for interpreting documents to developing a common terminology.

Coordinating teams

LiveNet not only supports one team. It is possible to grow - by gradually adding new objects to the workspace, or by creating new workspaces. You can set up a new workspace for additional groups and maintain coordination between them.

Documents can be moved and shared across workspaces, messages can be sent between them to maintain workflows, and discussions can be shared in a moderated way between workspaces.

Maintaining Relationships

You can set up a special workspace to that allow relationships between team members to grow and evolve.

SUBSYSTEMS

There are three main LiveNet Subsystems. Each of these provides a different interface and set of commands. These are:

System administration, which is used by the system administrator or workgroup leader to add users to the system or create new workgroups. LiveNet provides a set of commands to manage groups for this purpose.

The application development system, which provides the basic menu commands to set up workspaces.

The end-user systems that provides the interface to end-users. The end user HTML interface is automatically generated once the workspace is defined.

USERS

There is also a distinction between classes of users. LiveNet support a number of user kinds. These include:

A system administrator,
S group leader
A work manager, and
An end-user.

Each of these are supported by a different interface.

The system administrator can set up any work environment through a system administration workspace. This can include any number of activities.
The group leader can add new users to the systems and create new groups.
The end-user has a standard HTML interface that enables the user to contact people, view documents, add to discussions or add information.
The manager who can use the development system to create a set of workspaces.
An manager can also make limited changes to an activities, such as inviting new participant using the end-user system.

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