The Platform: Simple Sophistication

Designing and executing strategy in open networks poses highly complex challenges in collaboration. Consider that in an open  network:

• No one can tell anyone else what to do;
• Participation is fluid -- the attendance at any two meetings is never the same;
• There are no clear rules about who decides, who belongs. or who is in charge;
• No one can dictate solutions or tools;
• People have widely different experience and skill with the Internet;

People in open networks can design and execute sophisticated projects when they balance open participation with leadership direction.  To meet these needs, Strategy-Nets deploys an Internet platform developed by Near-Time that is both simple and sophisticated. The key features include:

• Tightly integrated portfolio of easy to use Web 2.0 tools, including blogs, wikis, widgets, and RSS feeds. This integration enables  users to create a rich Internet experience without any technical background.
• Sophisticated knowledge management and search. Collaborative websites can quickly become large garbage bags of information without an easy way to categorize, tag and search information. Both categories and tags are important. Think of categories as the chapters in the table of contents of a book, and tags as an index in the back of a book. You need both. In keeping a network on track, coherence is more important than vision.
• Easy fine tuned access.--  In most collaborative workspaces, you face a simple choice. Either your workspace will be completely open to the public or it will be completely private. Both options are not realistic for an open network. You need the ability to finely tune access to your workspace.  You need the ability to current control access of different people. (Your core team has one level of access, while the public has another).  You need to be able to control different sections of your  website, or different categories of information, or even just individual pages. And you need to be able to make these decisions on the fly with one click of a button.
  
• Simple customization.--   It used to be  that a powerful website needed a web designer. No longer.  Depending on your needs, you can customize your site as little or as much as you want -- from simple to complete. With Strategy-Nets as your guide, we can help you get the look and feel to build a strong identity for your network.