PMI® is marketing a product ( OPM3) that simply does not live up to the all of the marketing hype it has been given...
...Craig Curran-Morton PM World Today Viewpoints "Beyond OPM3 Hype: A Reality Check"
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Rainer Volz
Since there was interest I sometimes posted links to interesting press releases of the Project Management Institute. That won't happen again, because I was told about their Linking Agreement. Like so many website owners, who only have an abstract image of the Internet, but have to be there nevertheless, PMI® restricts access to their - published - content severely.
"The Project Management Institute, Inc. encourages other associations, business organizations, and individuals interested in project management to provide information links from their Internet web sites to PMI's web site." That sounds nice, but then there is:
"By linking to PMI's web pages, you agree to the following terms: Home page. You may only link to PMI's home page www.pmi.org, as 'deep' linking is not permitted. Exception: If you are an Accredited Non-Profit Educational Institution you may link to the Knowledge and Wisdom Center for research purposes provided you request permission below. ..."
Who would want to link to the home page? Nothing interesting there. And I'm not interested in the offered wisdom. Since the press releases are not published on the home page: no more PMI® infos. Not a part of the net, but an isolated island.
I came to the conclusion that this isn't a zero-sum game, there are always other to fill the gap. Take the standard organization OASIS (www.oasis-open.org) as an example for a reasonable attitude. As long as you mention the source properly and restrict abstracts to the usual 2-3 paragraphs, re-use of their news is OK for them (they like to know who and why though). They know they can only benefit from more exposure,even by small specialised sites like mine.
Rainer Volz
Virtual Projects
http://www.vrtprj.com/
David Pells, the New PM World Today Publisher, has authorized a "Web Optimization Project" for future PM World Today publications. This has involved taking the PM World Today over to the more capable Extended Markup Language (XML) web page accompanied by Cascading Style Sheets(CSS). The XML format will allow our web pages to be picked up by devices other than PC for example, hand held devices and the CSS will improved web page loading and maintenance.
The reason for the move to XML format is that both new web designers and
Authors tend to treat web pages as they do paper pages. When designing for
the Web past experience with desktop publishing, or word processing can cause
real web page loading problems. The issue is that while paper pages are static,
and incapable of changing to a user's preferences web pages are fluid and
adaptable to computer platform. The "control" of desktop publishing
contradicts the principles of interoperability and access ability central
to the Web. The thrust should be that all information is available to everybody
and platform independent. That is the rationale for the "PM World Today
Web Optimization Project."
The Project has been outsourced to Algonquin College (Ottawa, Canada Media
Group). Here a Student
Connections division of Algonquin, funded by the Federal Canadian Government,
has established a continuing student capability to work with Canadian Industry
to improve Internet use. Our Web Optimization Project is moving into the
early stages of developing current PM World Today files to a new set of XML
templates for future publishing purposes.
The lead web programmer was an undergraduate student Chris Broughton who is in his final Semester at Algonquin.
Much remains to be done, that is, this new XML template stalking horse using the PM World Today for September - October has to be revisited for improved presentation and formatting. This step is a first web mock-up and then discussion and code tweaking has to take place before we could commit to regular production of the PM World Today in the new suit of clothes.
Rainer Volz, the most significant virtual collaborative web platform expert in the world of PM today, and a regular contributor to the PM World Today has been helpful with advice and encouragement on this new web exploratory path for PMFORUM Web Site improvement.
Visit this proposed new format for the Project Management World Today. You may have some thoughts on how we can improve the format and presentation of PM knowledge.
David Curling
Editor
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