Institute of Noetic Sciences Integral KnowledgeCenter

A world community of scholars, researchers, and explorers combining perspectives and insights on consciousness, human nature and the human potential. The knowledgeCenter is a growing body of knowledge--a place to share and access our collective understanding of the nature of consciousness, the human potential, and the mysteries of our universe. A knowledge integration system and corroboration engine designed to facilitate an evolving multi-disciplinary dialog leading to new insights and discoveries, and to bring the benefit of collective wisdom to our personal life decisions. The self-organizing system uses your input, comments and feedback to create a contually evolving body of knowledge that can be accessed from Noetic.org, and affiliated topical websites.

World Family Cookbook

A family cookbook is an easy to understand example of a knowledge-base that is created, edited and used by a large group of people. Favorite recipes are saved and shared or passed among family and friends or from generation to generation. We have expanded this idea to an online "World Family Cookbook" designed to potentially grow into the world's biggest and most useful cookbook. The KnowledgeCenter cookbook allows users to contribute an infinite variety of recipes and recipe categories as well as to rate, sort and evaluate recipes. Comments allow users to share tips and variations on recipes contributed by others. 
TEST DRIVE THE COOKBOOK

Self-Help Center
The Self-Help Center will be a place to share and access information, knowledge and opinions on all aspects of self-help. Users will be able to compare approaches and methods on everything from stress-management to developing the human potential. Comments and links will allow users to consider many approaches, experiences and views on hundreds of self-help topics.
TEST DRIVE SELF-HELP CENTER 

Joke Center
The JokeCenter forum allows people to sort jokes in various categories by such criteria as originality, humor and "tastefulness." Sorting jokes by originality causes the most original jokes (according to user's opinions) to appear at the top of the list. Once people have seen them, they will percolate down in the originality scale, thus assuring that site visitors can always find the most original jokes when they sign onto the site. 

Sorting jokes by tastefulness or "inverse tastefulness" allows users to find jokes that match their own sense of humor. Users can contribute an unlimited number of jokes or new categories. The price of admission to the JokeCenter is one or more jokes, ensuring a steady stream of fresh jokes.
TEST DRIVE JOKE CENTER

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Health Advisor
The Health Advisor Forum will bridge the gap between doctors, medical researchers and patients by allowing users to access information from the medical professions as well as sharing personal experiences with other patients. Users will be able to sort opinions and information by criteria ranging from personal experiences of other patients, to corroboration levels determined by the number and quality of comments and links to research contributed by health professionals.

The side-by-side pro and con comment area will allow users to weigh opposing perspectives of both doctors and patients. This forum will use version 2.0 of the software, which accommodates content, ratings and comments in two classes: consumer and registered professional. Each participating professional will have a short profile posted on the site.
SAMPLE HEALTH PAGE MERCOLA.COM NATURAL HEALTH SITE

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Hobby Center
The Hobby Center will be a cluster of special interest forums dedicated to virtually any hobby. Users will be able to share techniques, information and resources unique their hobby or field of interest.
SAMPLE HOBBY PAGE

Wine Lovers Forum
The Wine lover's forum will allow users and professional reviewers to build a comprehensive knowledge base of wines, allowing thousands of wines to be sorted by taste, value, availability and professional reviewer scores. Each wine listing will also feature reviewer comments in several categories, providing the additional sorting criteria of the ratio of positive to negative comments.
SAMPLE VIRTUAL WINE TASTING ROOM PAGE

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Gardeners Forum
The Gardener's Forum will be a place for gardening enthusiasts to share knowledge about America's number one pastime. Regional topic forums will allow fellow gardeners to share experiences that are unique to their specific climate and growing conditions. 
SAMPLE GARDENER'S PAGE

Investment Advisor
The Investment Forum will be a place for investors to compare notes, predictions and advice with other investors and financial professionals. Contributors will be rated by track record, allowing users to sort advice by reliability of the source. Comment areas will be divided into supporting and dissenting opinions, allowing users to consider many perspectives on investment strategies and opportunities.

Consumeratings.com
The consumeratings forum will allow consumers to contribute and access opinions within a continually growing database of consumer products and services.

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Fishermans Forum
The Fishermans Forum will be a place for anglers to share and access fishing tips, information and local knowledge pertaining to their geographical location and their specific fishing interests. Fishing stories and secrets can be sorted by number of supporting experiences, by corroboration from professional anglers and guides, by authors and columnists, or by the number of supporting comments. Sponsors can offer tackle, books, videos and other fishing products.

People's Web Guide
The People's Web Guide will be a forum for sharing user-generated information about websites on any topic. This forum will provide a much-needed alternative to traditional Internet search engines and directories that merely point users at sites without any indication of the quality of the site or its appropriateness to users' individual needs. 

Comments from other visitors, as well as user-generated ratings, are based on a variety of criteria. Using the People's Web Guide, Internet users will help each other discern websites that meet individually specified needs.

BlogFilter

Blogs are taking the Web by storm, but as with all Web publishing, there is a problem. How can you determine which blogs are worth reading, accurate or relevant to us? BlogFilter would apply the filtering features of KnowledgeFilter software to the world of Blogs. A central index would point to Blogs all over the web on any given subject. The Blog content would appear in a KnowledgFilter style window with reader ratings for user-selected rating criteria and pro and con reader comments. The best Blogs on any topic would rise to the top according to personally selected criteria for value in information. Default criteria would be Interest, Accuracy and Writing Style. As with all other KnowledgeCenter Forums, pro and con comments on each Blog would automatically be sorted by agreement level and appear side-by-side with the most highly agreed upon supporting comments appearing next to the most highly agreed upon objections to the Blog's content. The same self-organizing content map and robust search function would make navigating millions of Blogs easy from this site. We are seeking a partner to launch a beta version of the BlogFilter application.

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