• Organizing your own working environment. Put info at your fingertips.
• Sharing your working environment with others. Put your info at their fingertips.
• Establishing a common working environment for teams.
• Establishing a common working environment for organizations.
• Posting information at Web Sites to make it available on the WWW.

• Web browsers can be used in a local mode [not connected to the internet].
• Web pages can contain links to various types of documents.
• Web page editors make building web pages as simple as doing word processing.
• Web browsers allow helper application to be called to "view" non-html documents.
  [Such as Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and other common applications.]
• Most working environments standardize on common set of office applications.
• Working from shared drives permits an entire organization to share information.
• Working from shared drives limits access to information to the organization.
• Working from shared drives greatly increases access speed.

• First, get access to a web page builder. Netscape Gold has one that is very easy to use and is integrated with their browser.
• Netscape Gold can be downloaded from the Netscape site [3 month trial].
• Renegotiating license from Netscape to Netscape Gold should cost < $20/copy.
• Netscape Gold can be acquired for $69 per copy. License fee should be far less.
  
  
• Second, start organizing your working information.
• Use standard filenames and standard directory structure to facilitate linking.
• Generate descriptions for what is in various files.
• Start grouping related information into meaningful concepts.
• Don't limit how you organize information. Permit multiple viewpoints.
• Think in terms of building a web of info that is rich with links.
• Organize info in a manner that mirrors how you organize it in your mind.
  
  
• Third, realize that information about information provides added value.
• Meta-information, information about information, is extremely valuable.
• Web pages allow you a means for capturing meta-information.
  
  
• Fourth, set up you browser to enable helper applications.
• Select Options | General Preferences | Helpers
• Set up helpers for normal applications in your working environment.
• This involves associating executable file for various .ext types.
• Your browser may already be setup for basic MS Office applications.
  
  
• Fifth, start building web pages to organize your own information.
• Build a main page that permits linking to all areas in which you are involved.
• Then, build individual pages for each area.
• Whenever pages get too big, simplify them by building hierarchical structures.

See the RVCA Master Page for a detailed example of what anyone do using this technology.

Note (1): The links on the example page are functional in my work environment but not over the internet with the exception of the link to the prior RVCA Master page.

Note (2): If you place your cursor over the links you will see the variety of file types that I have found it useful to organize. Local "web" pages literally place this information not only at my fingertips but at those of over 100 people that I work with.

Note (3): My information environment is replicated on shared drives of computer systems for three separate companies/organizations as well as on a laptop that I use regularly.