Online Customer Education
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A Guide to Concise Web Design For Your Business
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)
- Do you have an Internet Presence for your small business?
- Are you a part of a community with your clients?
- Are you still putting the effect before the cause?
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.
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
I'll have to check those books out. Thanks.
Thanks for your pix for the movie....did you see it yet?
Don't forget to vote!!
Lucy
Thanks for dropping by Lucy.