Internet Ecommerce Your Greatest Opportunity Lessons Learned From 10 years of Community Networking Are You Ready?

Internet EcommerceYour Greatest Opportunity

Lessons Learned From 10 years of Community Networking

Are You Ready?

Big Sky Telegraph 1988-1998

1-2 room rural schools 4 Congressional Reports Online Learning and Mentoring RFTS -’93 Alaskan Villages and Home-schoolers Six Migrant Technology Projects Community Networking Common Ground Internet Guide and

Echoes in the Electronic Wind - Native Am.

Big Sky Telegraph Early Insights

Can’t Push a Rope Perceptions VS Realities Drivers, Riders, Draggers Bottom up acceptance vs Top Down

Resistance. Complacency VS Motivated Locating close to your market

Giving people the gift of themselves

To Be All We Can Be: Overcoming our Historical Mindset of Powerlessness

We’re always ready to learn, never to be taught; Learning to Learn - The Benefits!

Caring, Connectivity and new skills *must* work together if we are to match unmet needs with appropriate resources.

The New Gold Rush

Leapfrogging with Free Web Tools Profiting from getting everyone involved Rural Teleworker Training Motivating all potential innovators The Relationships Age: increase in quality

and quantity

Are You Ready?

Morgridge - 180,000 students in 74 countries Mastery Learning Engine Coopetition - Users Mentor Users -

450 Billion Market Capitalization Community Applications Training? Ecommerce - www.sba.gov/classroom 24 districts in S. Idaho…$600,000

Converting Existing Businesses to Ecommerce

Posting products on the web Getting a Merchant Account (Credit cards) Strategies to increase access by Search

engines Partnering with similar sites to

‘point to each other’ http://business2.com for 10 New Rules

Community EcoDevo

Broadband to attract Companies (Train Us!) Telemarketing Call Centers Telecommuting

– Insurance Underwriting– Medical Billing and Transcription

IT training and Community Colleges Rural Teleworker Training Virtual Incubators,

Venture Capital/Philanthropy

Stories and Strategies

Lusk, WY - A Second Try - (CESA) Clyde, Kansas - Personal, Business, Civic Taos, NM Kellogg MIRA project

http://www.wkkf.org http://Laplaza.org Dillon-net.org - creating home-based

Businesses, Ebay, Collecting Proliferating Rural Innovations Gob-smacked Down Under - Scouting

Bandwidth IssuesIs Faster the same as Smarter?

Volume Bandwidth (Physical Infrastructure)

Value or “Human” Bandwidth (Social Info-structure)

Wallowing VS Optimizing

Individual Instrastructure Options

http://concentric.com and WebWhacker http://bluesquirrel.com

http://directpc.com http://dishnetwork.com http://tachyon.net http://wireless.oldcolo.com

Skills Needed to Become Knowledge Workers

Learning - Self-directed Learning Collaborative Sharing - Project-based

Learning Multimedia Global Web-Self-publishing Ecommerce Mindset, Visioning Capacity Character Education and Global Citizenship Building Sustainable Learning Communities

Community Networks 1986-2000

100+ Freenets and National Public Telecomputing Network

La Plaza - 1995- first Rural Web CN 1998 - Missouri State CN Initiative 1998 - CTCnet.org and CTC Models Citysearch, Digital Cities, Sidewalk, etc. Did the CN Movement Die or is it Yet to be

Born?

What Problems are We Trying to Solve?

Confusion - What’s a Community Network?

Four Models of Community Networking

1. Community Access

Community Technology Centers (Schools and Libraries)

Public Offices with computers Kiosks Loaner Laptops Recycled Computers!

2. Community Education/Skill Development

Step by step Online Mastery Learning Successive Milestones with Incentives and

Recognition Citizen-to-Citizen Mentorship Online Community Talent Database

3. Community Publishing

Helping everyone get a web page! Showcasing local content and innovation Showcasing the best global content, locally (Coming) Personal Portals Using Free Web

Tools

4. Community Participation

Everyone both learner and teacher, all the time Online Discussion and Idea Sharing Participatory Decision-Making 10 Collaborative Tools on the Internet Building individual and Community Collaborative

Capacity Evaluative metrics to monitor success or lack of it.

What would it take to make your community a national model?

High Speed Internet Motivating Awareness Programs Effective Citizen Engagement Social Recognition and mentoring Successive skills development for everyone Local content and best of Global content Visioning and Trends-Awareness Capacity New Evaluative Metrics to measure success

Q1 - Should we focus on infrastructure, then training, or

progressively expand both together?

Q2 - How will we all learn to use the best free web tools to produce the most tangible benefits on an

ongoing basis?

Q3 - Who will provide the best content brokerage and fast track

online training solutions (Best for Most requiring Least Time and

Effort) on an ongoing basis?

Q4 - How can our community keep up with the increasing

numbers of innovations by other communities?

Q5 - How can we assess our community’s collaborative

capacity using Internet?

Everyone both learner and teacher, all the time.

Cells, Brains and measurable collaborative capacity.

Q6- Who can most quickly generate widespread awareness

and motivation of new small Ebusiness startup process?

Make the Vision Accessible Via Awareness Programs

Remove the barriers Via local mentors and CTCs Promote Replicable Successes Via Cookie

Cutters

Q7-What Are We Going to Have to Learn to Do Differently?

Creating Knowledge Workers Changing Behavior Upgrading skills and perceptions

Can We Change Fast Enough?

DEMO: cameras, idahoconf, pennmira, panos, objects, art, HB, Currtour,

http://lone-eagles.com/teled.htm

http://www.sba.gov/classroom http://www.ebay.com http://lone-eagles.com/entrelinks.htm http://lone-eagles.com/cnguide.htm /chap2.htm http://laplaza.org /dillon-net.org http://freeagent.com http://business2.htm

EBusiness for Teens http://library.advanced.org/28188 http://youngbiz.com http://www.ecommerce.gov http://www.firstgov.gov

Self-Directed, Web-Based Learning

BEST learning resources effective for theMOST people at the LEAST cost in time, effort, and money

Customized for local context, mentored locally with local examples

as an Instructional Entrepreneurship service or business

Ideal Project Elements

Youth as Key Change Agents, and Technology Leaders

Storytelling with Digital Art, Music, Photos Bottom up validation with examples

Local Mentoring with Ecommerce focus Electronic Portfolios Lone Eagles Apprenticeship Program

Seeking the Best Models for:

Awareness Raising and Citizen Engagement Vision and Process; A New\ Social Info-

structure Providing the very best training and online

tools for individuals Collection, Organization and Dissemination

of world’s best innovations Sustainability

Kinkos: A Statewide Organization

Politically Neutral; All Inclusive Quality Driven Brokerage Highly Structured Accessible Sustainable A Learning Organization Instructional Entrepreneurship Co-op

Its Just a Matter of Who and When

Frontier spirit of doing what needs to be done Accelerating change business at the speed of thought Best tools for the job, ongoing ‘green hand’

learning India’s 50 million English speakers and plans

to offer the US cheaper call centers, software programmers and much more.

Doing For Ourselves, Together.

Strategies for Combining Caring and Connectivity with Common Sense.

Coopetition for Rural Communties

Ecommerce is your greatest opportunity, but be aware you

have a specific window of opportunity to be

“First to Market”

before the world shares it, too!

http://lone-eagles.com/idahoecommerce.ppt OR

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Imagination is more important than knowledge.Albert Einstein

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