What is a Concept BOK ?
At Kreeo, we treat each topic of interest that people wish to know about as a 'concept' and build the entire spectrum of knowledge around that concept using a simple framework called the concept BOK (Body of Knowledge). BOK helps users in collectively organizing information related to a concept as a comprehensive body of knowledge, covering a wide variety of subject areas such as science, technology, business, people, place and organization. It can be any area of interest that is broad enough to have a whole body of knowledge (BOK) around it.
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A BOK is a collection of various types of content. Each content type represents an important dimension of common or experiential knowledge that we use to seek or share knowledge about a concept at a micro level. Any posted content item can be associated with a specific type of information related to concept. It can be an original contribution or a link to a web page (bookmark). Currently there are 14 content types:
Kapsule - This is meant for capturing fundamental knowledge about a concept. It is normally written as an instructional piece to provide the width of knowledge related to a concept. You can add as many topics and sub topics to structure content in a Kapsule. The objective of Kapsule is to provide a holistic picture of a concept to someone who is new to it.
Good Practice & Lesson Learnt - This is the space to share lessons learnt—what worked/what did not. The term "good practice" refers to practices leading to outstanding results in a particular situation and could be replicated in other situations.
Questions - You can ask/answer questions or do both.
Tips & Tricks - Tips & Tricks content type is meant for sharing work arounds and smart things to solve problems related to a concept.
News Items - This is meant for sharing information about recent events or happenings related to the concept. You can report original news as a citizen journalist or share links to news as reported by media.
Article or Web Log Items - This is meant for sharing blog posts and on-line articles related to a concept. You can share them as links or contribute your original posts.
Research & Statistics - In this content type, you can share web pages and original content that provides research reports, findings and/or statistics related to the concept.
Quick References - This is meant for sharing links to other important web pages that provide fundamental, reliable and updated information related to a concept. For example, technology concepts reference may contain links to the pages of standards, help material, technical documentation, tutorials etc.
Trivia - This contains information related to concepts that may have less importance but are interesting and have a quiz value.
Books, Reviews, Summary - This is meant to share information about books such as book summaries and book reviews related to a concept. In today's fast-paced world, people don't have enough time to read many books. This content type helps identify good books based on reviews and their summaries to elicit key takeaways from a book. 
Stories - A story is an interesting account or narrative of real or fictitious events related to a concept. Story telling is a very powerful learning tool.
Examples - An example is an instance cited to prove or illustrate a point related to a concept. Even success stories and case studies can be treated as an example. For example, for technology concepts, an instance can be a code or script.
Learning Activities - This is meant for sharing information on individual or group activities which when performed lead to learning about the related concept.
Glossary Items - This contains definition and explanation of terms related to a concept. It provides a working vocabulary for important or frequently encountered terms.What can I contribute?
On Kreeo you can share your knowledge in many ways without being a formal writer or a blogger. Kreeo allows you to share even drops of knowledge or wisdom by using one or many of the ways by:
Posting Content: We all have some knowledge and experience to share in the form of good practices, learnings,tips & tricks,stories, examples etc. A content shared can be in your own words or can be a link to a web page (bookmark). You can post content in the relevant concept BOK and specify a content type. If a concept doesn't exist, you can easily create it while contributing, or you can even post it into the general category (Kreeo team will take care of putting it into the right concept).
Posting Web Log Articles:Web log (or blog) is like your personal diary or publishing page, where you can contribute with multiple posts. A web log post can be anything such as your original thoughts, reviews, views, events etc.
Posting in Forums: You can create and participate in forums of various types. You can contribute to forums by starting new discussion threads or by replying to existing threads.
Posting Answers: Users can post various questions in general category or specific to a concept. You can contribute by answering the questions posted by other users as well.
Posting Polls: On Kreeo, any user can post a poll question. Everyone can contribute by answering these polls.
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You can contribute content in following ways:
1. Through "Post: Content"
This is the quickest way to post content in Kreeo.
Follow these steps to post content:
a. Click on Post: Content
b. Choose from Contribute here- if the contribution is in your own words, or contribute as a link- if its a web page you found on some other website.
c. In the Pop Up window select the concept BOK in which you wish to post your item. This is optional.
- If you want to post under an existing Concept BOK: Start typing the desired concept name and the system will suggest a list of matching concept BOKs. It will suggest from all open BOKs and public/private BOKs relevant to you. You may choose a concept from the list displayed.
- If you don't know or don't wish to specify: Just leave the concept filed blank. Such an item will not be organized and will be available through "Explore > Concept BOKs" menu item.
- if there is no relevant Concept BOK for the content, you can start a new one by specifying a name in the field. On submitting the form you will be asked to specify a few settings for the new concept BOK.
d. Select a Content Type.
- Good Practice & Lesson Learnt
- Questions
- Tips & Tricks
- News Items
- Article or Web Log Items
- Research & Statistics
- Quick References
- Trivia
- Books, Reviews, Summary
- Stories
- Examples
- Learning Activities
- Glossary Items
(refer to Content Types above for descriptions.)
e. Specify relevant information in the Title and Link/URL fields. Based on the content type selected additional fields may be displayed.
f. Use the Rich Text Editor to enter the content (if the contribution is original) or abstract (if the contribution is as a link to some already existing content).
g. You may not wish to share the content with anyone but wish to save in your private notebooks. Choose the check box provided to only save the content in your notebook. You may rework on the content later and then choose to publish to a concept BOK or your web log.
h. Have a quick check of data in all fields and click on the "Post" button to post it.
2. Through the QuickMarker tool.
This tool is the most convenient way to save and share stuff on Kreeo as you surf the web and find information and of interest or get ideas while surfing. Use the link at the bottom of Kreeo page to open the "QuickMarker" Tab for more details on how to add the "QuickMarker" button to your browser and how to use it. Using the Quick Marker you will be able to save content and clips from any web page your are on and without coming to http://www.kreeo.com/. The user interface of "QuickMarker" is same as "Post Content" form.
3. Through the Concept BOK tab.
You can use the Contribute to BOK menu and select the content type from the list, or you can go to the relevant content category in the concept BOK Tab and use the Add icon there.
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How to Create a Concept BOK ?
There are two ways of doing it
1. Using the Post content window or using the QuickMarker tool; where you can post new content and specify a new concept to post it into. This creates the concept first and then posts the item into it. But by using this method you can only create a new Concept BOK of type Open.
2. Using the Create New quick menu
You can select Concept BOK from the Crete New Menu which will pop up the following window
Concept rights:
- Open* - Open concepts can be Edited and Viewed by any Kreeo member
- Public* - Public concepts are read only concepts and can be edited only by the creator
- Private - Private concepts will be accessible only to its members, it is not visible to other Kreeo Members
*The Open and Public concepts will be accessible to non-Kreeo Members also.
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Kreeo recommendations in Home tab are not relevant
Kreeo Recommendations Engine(KRE) will work based on your usage pattern and profile information on Kreeo (especially the knowledge areas of interest). If you have not specified your knowledge areas, we strongly advice you to do so. You can use a comma separated list of keywords to specify your interest areas e.g. "web 2.0, robotics, computing, training, nanotechnology " . The more you use Kreeo the better the KRE can serve you.
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How to use the Rich Text Editor ?
Font Styling
Makes the selected text bold Makes the selected text italic Underlines the selected text
Changes the font colour Changes the background colour
Changes the font face Changes the font size
Text Styling
Remove formatting Subscript Superscript Text Style
Ordered List Bulleted List Outdent Indent
Left align Center align Right align Justify
Insert
Insert hyperlink Remove hyperlink
Insert table
Enter the number of rows and column you want in the table and press insert.
Insert image
Insert Flash
Select a flash(.swf) movie file to upload and enter the height and width with the alignment.
Insert smiley Insert special character Insert code block
Insert widget/ HTML code:
You can use this widget for inserting HTML widgets ( Embed flash videos, etc.). Paste the code into the text area and press insert.
Other actions
Cut Copy Paste Undo Redo
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What are Kreeo Snippets ?
Kreeo Snippet is a widget which will give you a snapshot of new contributions to Kreeo, popular stuff, recommendations etc.
Using search
Search is accessible at the top-right corner.
You can type any search query, the results will display in a new Kreeo tab. All matching content from Concept BOKs, Forums, and Web logs is displayed as results. You can click on any result item to launch the relevant page.
The search results tab also displays people and forums related to your search query. It is displayed towards the right side of the search results tab as panels
Another panel in the right displays standard results for the query from Google/Yahoo.
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How can I use the web log on Kreeo ?
With each account Kreeo is providing a web log. As you sign up for Kreeo, your web log gets created automatically.
You can access your web log by using the "My Apps > Web Log" menuitem.
Every Kreeo user's web log has a direct URL also which can be accessed using the "Permalink" icon in the web log Tab