Who is LinkNotions for : Teacher, Researcher, Decision-maker, …
User type
Problem, need
Utility description
Professionels :
Researcher
A researcher studying a phenomenon with multiple links will want to represent the phenomena studied and show concepts (notions) related. He will publish the world to show it to public ( private and professional) so he can compare it to other opinions.
Discuss a diagram with other researchers
A diagram published by a researcher (see above) can be discussed. LN software is a good basis for discussion because it clearly shows the notions and the links. The explanations will be discussed in order to get an agreement on the notions and links used.
Teacher
Explain a diagram
A teacher will use a diagram published on the website of LN to explain phenomena illustrated in this diagram.
Doing exercises to be solved by students
A teacher can give documents to students containing extracts of a diagram. He may omit e.g. notions and links and ask students to complete the presentation. It goes without saying that other types of exercises are possible.
Student
Have a global view and understand the content of a diagram
View mode: A diagram of LinkNotions quickly gives an overview of a field of knowledge. LinkNotions shows and explains the notions and links of a diagram.
Edit Mode: In certain circumstances, a student may be interested in creating his own diagram or edit a diagram proposed by LinkNotions.
Adapt a diagram
A teacher can generally agree to the content of a diagram, but some details may displease him, especially if some links seem to him to be not clear or even inappropriate. He also may not agree with some explanation or want to give additional information. In this case he will like to the fit the proposed diagram in his way to see relationships and explanations. He will therefore change the diagram proposed by LN and possibly ask LN to publish under his own name (or pseudonym).The publication becomes interesting if the teacher has found a new way of presenting a phenomenon and if he wants to show it to the public, and especially to his students.
Solve problems posed by the teacher
A teacher can give documents to students containing extracts of a diagram. He may omit e.g. notions and links and ask his students to complete the presentation.
Look at the diagram of a book
A student who must read a novel is definitely interested in seeing the diagram on this book. He can quickly see the different characters, their characteristics and relationships between them.
This will allow him to have a global view and end up in books with multiple characters. However first someone will have to create this diagram (this may be a student, teacher or the editor of this novel).
Journalist
Do a search on a current topic.
LinkNotions is the ideal tool for gathering and linking information. When all the information is ready, the journalist can use the diagram to write articles on the subject.
Write an article based on a diagram proposed by LinkNotions
A journalist who writes an article about one of the phenomena published on the website of LN may consult the diagram. He can adopt links indicated in the diagram. If a journalist is writing e.g. an article on the economic crisis, he will consult the world of economics to see all the phenomena that cause a crisis. And he will see all the aspects that must be treated or that he wants to treat in his article. The software allows journalists and their readers to see if their article contains all aspects or see what is missing in the article.
Analyze an article
View mode: The reader of an article published in a newspaper can compare the links contained in the article with the proposed links in the diagram published on the website of LinkNotions. He will soon realize whether or not the author made the right arguments, and most importantly, he will realize the links which the author does not mention in his article (by mistake or omission).
Edit mode: The reader of an article published in a newspaper can create a sub-diagram (called subject group) with LinkNoitons. He may request LinkNotions to publish his diagram.
Polical decision-maker
Help to make a decision
A politician who has to make a decision within a field of knowledge published in a diagram, will consult it to see the causes and consequences of different factors in this diagram. It will help to ensure he did not forget to consider certain aspects.
Prepare a speech
A politician who has to prepare a speech in an field of knowledge published in a diagram, will consult it.
Criminologist
Solve a case
Many characters are involved in a crime, they have many different types of relationships (links). LinkNotions will clearly show the links between them.
Sociologist
A sociogram is a representation of the relationships between different people. It is exactly the specialty of LinkNotions to represent links between multiple notions. Here the notions are people.
The advantage of a LinkNoitons sociogram is thta you can give content (explanation, documents, images) to the people and to the relationships.
Analyze a sociological phenomenon (e.g., the causes and consequences of violence)
Many sociological phenomena (e.g., suicide, poverty, school dropout, corruption, crime, begging, polygamy, racism, gangs, violence, immigration, etc.) have multiple causes and consequences. We are therefore in an application of LinkNotions showing the links between multiple concepts (notions).
Consult a world on LinkNotions website that analysis a sociological phenomenon (e.g., the causes and consequences of violence)
A sociologist can see a world that shows the links between different sociological notions.
Historian
Analysis of a historical phenomenon (e.g., the causes and consequences of WW1)
Many historical events (e.g. wars, alliances, discoveries) have multiple causes and consequences. We are therefore in an application of LinkNotions showing the links between multiple notions.
Consult a world on the site of LinkNotions which analyzes a historical phenomenon (e.g., the causes and consequences of WW1)
A historian can consult a diagram that shows the links between different historical elements (notions).
Ecological Movement
Analyze an ecological phenomenon (e.g., the causes and consequences of global warming).
Many ecological phenomena (e.g. the global warming, weather, development of green algae, pollution, tornadoes) have multiple causes and consequences. We are therefore in an application of LinkNotions showing the links between multiple notions.
Consult a diagram on the site of LinkNotions (analysis of an ecological phenomenon (e.g., the causes and consequences of global warming) ).
An ecological institution can view a diagram that shows the links between different ecological phenomena (notions).
Other types of NGOs
Analyze a phenomenon in which their association is interested (eg, the causes and consequences of underdevelopment , globalization, etc.).
See above
Consult a diagram on the site of LinkNotions (analysis of a phenomenon (e.g., the causes and consequences of underdevelopment , globalization, etc.)
See above.
Firms
Analysis, overview, decision making
A company can use LinkNotions to analyze internal phenomena of the company (organogram, information flow, business planning, logistics) to see clearer and to take easier certain decisions.
Publishing house
Create in LinkNotions a diagram about a book
A publisher may be interested in creating the sociogram of novels published. This will allow readers to get a quick overview of the characters in the novel and the relationships between them. A diagram could be seen as an advertisement, because people tend to read the diagrams of books to choose their reading.
Private: individuals
Bring order, collect information (family tree)
With LinkNotions you can create a family tree in a few minutes including the people involved, their characteristics and the types of relationships (mother, father, son, daughter, cousin, etc.) between them.
Make a sociogram of his friends, relatives, …
LinkNotions allows to create, within minutes, a sociogram including the people involved, their characteristics and the types of relationships (friends, work, parents, etc.) between them.
Analyze an article
View mode: The reader of an article published in a newspaper can compare the links contained in the article with the one proposed in a diagram published on the website of LinkNotions. He will soon realize whether the author made the right arguments, and most importantly, he will realize the links which the author does not mention in his article (by mistake or omission).
Edit mode: The reader of an article published in a newspaper can create a diagram with LinkNotions and publish it on its website.
Analyze a scientific book
View Mode: This allows a reader to see the influences, links, leading a diagram published on the website of LinkNotions and to have a global view of links.
Edit mode: He can create a diagram of the book with LinkNotions.
Publication: He may publish his diagram.
LinkNotions enables someone who is reading a book, to have a global view, seeing the characters and their relationships. He can create the diagram (edit mode). He can use the diagram published by LinkNotions (view mode).
Understand a field of knowledge
LinkNotions publishes on its website fields of knowledge showing notions and links. Visitors can view these diagrams and see the notions (and their explanations) and the links between those notions (and explanations of links).
