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| Subject: | Re: All set up for the weekend. |
Looks great. Hope you have a good weekend and a safe return to KSYI.
Bear
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Sent: Fri, Sep 7, 2012 1:37 pm
Subject: Lightning-List: All set up for the weekend.
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| Subject: | Re: Lightning Newsletter Booklets |
[Idea]
It seems such a lot of work to go printing, or even manually indexing newsletters
when the nub of the issue is ready access to a topic, no matter where it exists.
I understand people wanting hard copy in their workshop, or to take somewhere
to discuss with someone else - paper will always be the best human interface,
and I prefer paper too, but.......
It seems to me that customers want quick access to all entries about a problem
they have with their build project so they can avoid mistakes made by others.
I don't know about costs for Arion, but there are brilliant text indexing and
retrieval systems available like ISYS (or Google for that matter) which would
allow customers to query Arion's entire server network regardless of where the
document sits and its format. So the build manual and all newsletters and the
website itself (just depends on what Arion allows) can be interrogated for example
on topics like "brakes, with or without a reference to Matco". The customer
sees a list of all entries like a web-based Google answer, can open in read-only
and print if required, and in sub-second response times.
If made available to customers only, the cost could be spread across that community
minimising Arion's licence fees (I've no idea of likely costs) and it could
probably be less than the per person printing costs Buz is being quoted. Alternately
Arion could do it as a value-add service for everyone, and reap the
benefits of ensuring they have perfect version controls over their manuals by
never over-looking a technical reference to any topic during upgrades or cross
referencing.
ISYS was an Aussie software product I came across in 1989 at KPMG and it has this
year been sold to Lexmark. It's used by US Homeland Security, the Las Vegas
Police and many other sites worldwide, so has the credentials. It will index
Autocad as well as hundreds of file formats.
http://www.isys-search.com/products/document-filters
As others here have said, only negative is web downtime when it occurs, but ease
and elegance of access knowing you've found every reference is surely the point,
24x7 globally. Lots of trees saved too!
Oh, and no I don't have shares in it. Someone with better knowhow might be able
to source a better product/price point. Always enjoy reading the forum, but rarely
post anything, so sorry for this rather long one.
Cheers everyone, Paul Smith, Angaston, Sth Aussie.
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