Thinking smarter. Together.

“The ability to learn faster than your competitors is the one sustainable competitive advantage.”Peter Senge, The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of the Learning Organization

 

Distilled IntelligenceA new class of products for content-based collaboration

HyLighter changes how information is organized and interconnected to improve problem-solving and critical-thinking capabilities of individuals and teams.

 

HyLighter engages users in collaborative thinking practices that develop the flexible knowledge required for innovative solutions to complex problems.

Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy

HyLighter Supports the Cognitive Processes of Knowledge Work

The Problem

• Many products make modifying content easy but discussing and synthesizing information from multiple sources hard.

• Few, if any, products in the collaborative software area focus on synthesizing input across multiple sources and file types.

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Enhanced HyLighter Workflow

Typical Approach. Focuses on redlining text. Difficult to discuss changes before they occur. Becomes inefficient as group size grows.

HyLighter Approach. Adds rich interaction to current document review practices and extends across multiple sources and various file types. Process is organized and efficient, even for a large number of reviewers.

Serial ReviewReconcile redlining in a single version

Parallel ReviewCombine and reconcile multiple versions

Comment Resolution Matrix (CRM)Combine and reconcile multiple matrices

Synchronous Co-AuthoringMultiple authors and reviewers work at the same time

Products such as MS Office 2010, MS 365, Google Docs, Google Etherpad, and Adobe Lifecycle promote rapid development of ideas from multiple authors but do not support engaged collaboration.

• Enables authenticated members of almost any size group to discuss, link, and synthesize relevant fragments of content across multiple sources.

• Adds a multi-dimensional layer of annotation on top of most common file types.

• Provides an easy-to-use, secure, low-cost, browser-based approach.

 

The HyLighter Solution: Engaged Collaboration

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Business Communications. You have drafted a new policy that must be consistent with existing policies and requires input from multiple departments and stakeholders.

Evaluation and Analysis. Your team is reviewing studies and reports to gather background information for a publication.

Education and Training. Students are working with multiple documents and file types to write papers and participate in peer review activities.

HyLighter Scenarios

Color-coded highlighting indicatesmy comments, your comments, our comments. The margin shows comments linked to highlighted fragments.

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HyLighter Solution:Identify and discuss relevant fragments of content

Generate Comment-Level URLs (CLUs)

HyLighter generates a unique comment-level URL (CLU) for each comment:

• Access the CLU for any comment.

• Link CLUs within the same source or across different sources.

• Send CLUs to others through email or social media.

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Link Fragments Across Sources to Share Information and Ensure Consistency 

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nce for A

C contradicts A

D is an example of A

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Compile Fragments and Related Input Create a sortable, filterable, and searchable matrix 

Fragments in the matrix link to their context in the source. documents.

Mashup Input Across Multiple Sources Reveal multiple perspectives to create new knowledge and enhance decision making 

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Matrix displays matching fragments and related input with links back to their sources.

Search HyLighter Collection Using a Selected Fragment as a Search Criterion 

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Create two-way links in the matrix by drag and drop.

Automatically adds links to the source documents in HyLighter.

Create Links Through the MashupFacilitate sharing of high-order thinking across large 

collections of documents

Use Email to Participate in HyLighter Sessions

Connects people to specific fragments of content within most file types through email and newer forms of social media.

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Add Engaged Collaboration to SharePoint Libraries

Plugin enables pushing a document from a SharePoint library to HyLighter while maintaining document control.

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Establishes social learning environments that help individuals and teams develop deep conceptual understanding and the type of flexible knowledge required for innovative solutions to complex problems:

• Generate new knowledge• Enhance decision making• Accelerate learning

For more information, go to www.hylighter.comor contact support@hylighter.com – 866-657-6662

Increase Return on Investment of Content-Based Collaboration Initiatives