Richard Mains gave us some insight into how California thought of developing a "success story system" for telling stories.
Richard Mains wrote:
My company, Mains Associates, teamed with the California Innovation Corridor (WIRED Project) in developing a public web site for the CIC at http://innovatecalifornia.net.
A Success Stories system was developed for the CIC community that profiled its 25 projects, 45 partners and eventually about 85 accomplishments. The system was designed to link all three profiles types by creating a "related" field on each profile and providing a full-text search across all system content. The intent was to create a searchable knowledge base for CIC participants and to facilitate formation of linkages with people and organizations that would like to collaborate with CIC projects because of mutual interests. Such collaborations were viewed as opportunities for resource leveraging and sustainability beyond the end of the WIRED grant period.
Near the end of a one-year system development effort several outside collaborators suggested that increased interactivity would be highly desirable to foster two-way communications. Our discovery of WIRED-Nation seems to provide an opportunity for the CIC to provide interactivity between their participants and the WIRED community. Feedback on the actual or potential value of the CIC Success Story system for community-building and this WIRED-nation Forum for collaboration formation is greatly welcomed.
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