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The best way to talk with your customers is your Internet Presence.

The best way to listen to your customers is your Internet Presence. 

It's not what your website says... 

It's what your website does.

The function is the content!!! 


"The 'revolution' I have been describing in reporting and in politics is the theme of the book called Deschooling by Ivan Illich. The theme of the book is simply that since there is now more information outside the schools than inside, we should close the schools and let the young obtain their education in the general environment once more. What Illich fails to see is that when the answers are outside, the time has come to put the questions inside the school, rather than the answers. In other words, it is now possible to make the schools not a place for packaged information, but a place for dialogue and discovery. This new pattern is recorded in the observation that twentieth century man is a person who runs down the street shouting: 'I've got the answers. What are the questions?' There are various versions of this observation, some of them attributed to people like Gertrude Stein. At any rate, when information becomes totally environmental and instantaneous, it is impossible to have monopolies of knowledge or specialism, a fact which is extremely upsetting to nearly everybody in our present Establishments. "

-- Marshall McLuhan (In a Speech On The End of the Work Ethic)


  1. Do you have an Internet Presence for your small business? 
  2. Are you a part of a community with your clients?
  3. Are you still putting the effect before the cause?
Posted by zwebusa at 4:03 AM - 8 Comments   Add a Comment  
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You are so right zweb....schools hold such a limited amount of information. It is impossible for them to keep up with updated materials and information, supply and demand. It is definitely time to rethink the way our kids are being taught.  
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by Misty (PM , CC ) on Friday July 14, 2006 @ 5:34 PM




Well Misty, that is a very good point but I would argue that we need to change the focus away from information entirely. Albert Einstein did not memorize his phone number because he knew he could look it up in the phone book. We have more information at our disposal than we can ever digest. We need to focus more on the constructions and functions we can use the information to create. Creativity is more important than knowledge.  
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by zwebusa (PM , CC ) on Saturday July 15, 2006 @ 12:43 AM




Zweb...but how would you do that ? How are you going to change the who infrastructure of the world?  
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by Misty (PM , CC ) on Saturday July 15, 2006 @ 10:36 AM




Misty,

The infrastructure of the world changed with the Internet. What we have to change is how we view the Internet. For instance, Lucy put together the foot movie. This was a function requiring input from all of her users. If you notice, her blog is one of the most popular. The function of her blog (aquiring foot pictures and making a movie) is her content.
 
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by zwebusa (PM , CC ) on Saturday July 15, 2006 @ 5:00 PM




You do have a brilliant mind z....I do think you are right...A couple of observations: 1) at some point, and I have really noticed this on the stream we become a part of the information or energy channel and regardless of what we do or don't do we have to deal with it...the tail may end up wagging the dog 2)The internet has the ability to speed up knowledge....relationships...business...even spiritual understanding etc...

Negroponte's book "Being Digital"...1995 was an eyeopener for me or even Hesse's "The Bead Game" I think we are forever changed by the internet and I hope it is for the better

 
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by Coloconnect (PM , CC ) on Saturday July 15, 2006 @ 5:17 PM




Exactly Colo...we function as part of the information, unlike TV or Movies where one small group controls our consciousness.

I'll have to check those books out. Thanks.
 
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by zwebusa (PM , CC ) on Saturday July 15, 2006 @ 5:23 PM




Hmmmmm....I don't really work right now!

Thanks for your pix for the movie....did you see it yet?
Don't forget to vote!!

Lucy
 
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by Lucy. (PM , CC ) on Saturday July 15, 2006 @ 10:38 PM




I did in fact see it, but i need to review it, ballot in hand. All the entries are so good voting is a tough task.

Thanks for dropping by Lucy.
 
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by zwebusa (PM , CC ) on Sunday July 16, 2006 @ 12:58 AM


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   
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