Stories and searches
January, 2008. EconDocs is moving into the open-source, ngo world. Look for a resurrection later in the year.

New help files:
Help with the story-telling service
Help with the search service

Stories, or wiki, services examples:
Start General Story Search
Find Typical Case Study AllDoc Search

Search services examples:
Find Budget AllDoc Search
Find Investment AllDoc Search
Find Operation AllDoc Search
Find Component AllDoc Search
Find Input AllDoc Search
Find Output AllDoc Search
Find Investments MyDoc Group Search
Find Investment MyDoc Search
Find AnalysisDoc Group Search
Find AnalysisDoc Search

Better examples (i.e. an economics dictionary) will appear here over the next several months. The wiki and search services will be populated (with an initial data set), and tested, over the next several months.

Should the public be allowed to add new stories, budgets, investments ...? Should they be allowed to edit, or contribute to, guide/guest content? Should guides supervise content contribution? Send your opinion to Kevin.Boyle@por.usda.gov.

Some pointers:
The overall business model, especially security, will need upgrading to handle these services. Site content will not be secure until late beta testing. Early beta testing demonstrates possibilities.
This site will not yet handle a large volume of customer interaction.
Incremental discovery remains at work.