NWC Now Offers the New World Television Workshop...right at your workplace

Instead of yet more mind-numbing morning, noon and night "non-news" nonsense about Charlie Sheen, Christine Aguillera, and Lindsey Lohan, on "old think" television... here is some awesomely GOOD NEWS about you moving forward...doing your own "new-think" TELEVISION... via the World Wide Web... and using the Internet as an "Internet-work" itself.. and spreading the good news about your product, service, or program offering....and you and members of your staff producing that kind of quality television... yourself.

It's all now possible as an outcome of radically new and powerful high quality technology and taking The New World Television Workshop... right there at your workplace.. including you and your staff.  Here is what the "take-away" would be:

• A team of empowered and trained in-house staffers who could plan, produce for, and program your own WEB TELEVISION CHANNEL... that has better business reach and potentially more exposure than cable television....30 second "spot" advertising that most smaller businesses, agencies, and non-profits can not afford to pay for.
  
  
• Your powerful, compelling WEB TELEVISION CONTENT could also be "rolled" into big-reach, learning-rich web conferencing sessions..that serve your customers and strategic business partners... phenomenally well.
  
  
• Using the same surprisingly affordable...eco-friendly web conferencing... you now can even mix your recorded WEB TELEVISION with a LIVE-STREAMED WEBCAST...right from your own facility or sales floor... for phenomenally powerful...and exciting "virtualized" physical world events.. like crafts seminars...and savoring your famous southern fried chicken....exciting events happening right at your place of business.... and the news about this could be "spun" on your blog and with one click be shared on Facebook... on your own Facebook Group, and on Twitter...for phenomenal advantage

...and much, much more. Let's connect today and arrange for demonstration and talk about moving forward with a proof-of-concept pilot to have you experience the benefits yourself. 425-780-6872.

Re-thinking E-Learning.. Learning Solutions Magazine Has A Good Article

What's on my mind today, in between connecting with and communicating with corporate clientele about work is "Rethinking eLearning" and trying to figure out our how much people and institutions are ready for that and whether folks even realize that a "re-thinking" of eLearning is even necessary... or that we are even talking about the same thing in our now 21st century world. Like how does one wrap one's own mind around it?

Then BINGO... the Universe again responded via a Google Search for "re-thinking e-learning" with an excellent and thoughtful article in Learning Solutions Magazine - April 28, 2010.... so here's the link to it. Even the bold-faced sub-titles help you get a grasp:

• Technologies - These have have a profound impact on the way the people can now not only learn better, but also perform what they do better.
  
  
• Mobile Devices - Mobile devices are especially hot now that multiple technologies have both improved and the market for apps has exploded.  The CONTENT delivery, the COMPUTATIONAL POWER, their real-world CAPTURE capabilities, and their power for COMMUNICATIONS...especially in ripe new markets such as in developing countries.. is fueling both investment, and hot projects.
  
  
• Virtual Worlds - What's new is that virtual world learning is beginning to happen in in different and more practical communications scenarios such as in immersive 3D web conferencing... without having to plunge into the swamp of Second Life and all it's seedy anonymous avatars of people of questionable character and ethics.
  
  
• Semantic Web - This has to do words and terms... and associative "tags" themselves  that are creating new contexts for learning, away from formal classroom events.
  
  
• Learning... Not for Learning's Sake..but for personal performance ... driven by people's need to know and to excel...with or without the institution's support for this.
  
  
• Spaced Practice - This is where you get your learning in "snippets" in between the practical applying of what you are learning.
  
  
• Social Learning - Wow is this a biggie. The web now... is a "Social Web" where content is being "crowd-sourced", commented upon and socially "highlighted"... which itself drives innovation and even more social learning.
  
  
• Meta-Learning - This concept hints at how big this phenomenon really is.
  
  
• Distributed Cognition - This goes hand in hand with the social learning and the meta-learning and is about recognizing and honoring the fact that we are all "smart" in our own special way with something to contribute and process...Power to the people!
  
  
• Slow Learning - This term in the article is confusing. Maybe it has to do with how slow institutions and political regimes are able to learn in contrast with workers themselves... empowered by the Internet.. and learning fast about how powerful they are. Witness the fall of Mubarek in Egypt for instance. 

There is much to think about... and to do ...and experiment with...and to collaborate on as a global learning community when it comes to "re-thinking e-learning" ...if institutions dare. Let's connect if you are re-thinking it too. 425-780-6872.

Here is Art's Happy Valentine's Day 2011.. on Prezi.com

See view this optimally, click on the link Walking the Walk with New World Communications on Prezi - Click on the More link and AutoPlay and it will play automatically for you or use the arrows.

This morning what's on mind is how to communicate what I and my company New World World communications are uniquely about as together we help people and organizations "Walk Through The Virtual Door". We all need to celebrate community and our common humanity to make ours a better world.

To heck with Hallmark, my challenge and opportunity has to do with doing that more innovatively... with St. Valentine's Day most definitely on my mind. Then BINGO... a recent conversation with a prospective client reminded me of Prezi.com.  Prezi.com is a new "outside-the-box" presentation application-as-a service that my "in-crowd" on TED... has been buzzing about... that's perfect for communicating where I am going and what I intend.  So Happy Valentine's Day for 2011 and enjoy ala Prezi.com.

For more information about the "Journey", let's connect. Call me at 425-780-6872 or you can use my new Google-powered Online Inquiries form on my website. 

Peace and goodwill to all.

Getting All Your Horses Pulling Together: Here's a Limited time by January 15th Special Offer...A Robust Google Website ..and 3-7 minute Promotional Video Offer Designed to Help You Do That

Limited Time Only Special offer of $2500 for a Robust Website...and 3-7 minute promotional video if by January 15, 2010 - This morning what's on my mind is getting the word about  a great way to "get your horses all pulling together" marketing communications-wise via a robust website limited time only special offer using new Google Apps/Google Sites architecture that's designed to do just that - See our own New World Communications website as the concrete example of this - www.newworldcom.com

• Web Presence - "Going Google" is the best website direction you could ever take. The architecture is elegant and easy to work with. Updating your website is a breeze... and there are literally thousands of ways to extend the platform using both Google's robust suite of applications as well as an entire Google Apps Marketplace. Hosting can even be free if you use a gmail e-mail address.. or for just $50 a year for a Google Apps Premier Edition account you can use domain name e-mail as well as get to upload to your own business Google Video account.
  
  
• Television Channel and Promotional Video - That's right. You can have your very own web television channel that can stream powerful programming all the way to mobile devices and to HDTV sets (using powerful new Google TV). As part of the deal, we'll even produce a 3-7 minute promotional video for you.
  
  
• Blogging Campaign - You can do it like we are doing it right from your website and easily "share" your post on Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites in just a few clicks.
  
  
• "Virtualized" meetings - Through a shared web conferencing license, you'll even be able to meet with and coach local, regional, national, and even international people "inside" your website...for phenomenal business reach.
  
  
• Critical Conversations  - These will be a series of high-powered web conferenced conversations that we can include you in. Getting ramped up now doing the web conferencing will get you ready for that. Our shared web conferencing capability can also do virtual focus groups for phenomenal revenue-generation potential.
  
  
• Virtual Conferences & Trade Shows - Over time and working together... these can even be accessed from "inside" your website. This most probably will be Facebook Group-related and will leverage your web television and your remote consulting and e-learning capability. We can do all this with zero carbon footprint and no physical world travel expenses, hotel or convention center costs.
  
  
• Twitter Marketing - Again our blogging capability can easily post there as well.
  
  
• Facebook Marketing - We have stepped up to the plate and have launched several groups on Facebook... all designed to help you grow more business.
  
  
• Physical World Marketing - We are also designing and creating  special business networking and events that will help you grow business in the physical world...as well as online.  Doing a website with us will be the doorway to this. 

A $5000 value... yours for only $2500 if you move forward by January 15, 2010 

For lower budget folks - Also talk to us even if your budget is more in the $500 range ... we also have a $750 value special offer for $500 that can at least get you started fleshing our your own Google website that we can you set-up with, and get you started...going down the right road. The deadline for that is January 15, 2011 as well.

What ever you decide to do. Call us today and let's talk about getting you get started ... blasting out of the chute in 2011 with a new website using powerful new Google Apps/Google Sites architecture - 425-780-6872.

Success is in The Cloud...If You Work With Us To Help You Connect The Dots

This morning on Black Friday, instead of spending money, I decided to write about how I can help my clients make more of  it ... enjoying more success by creating it "In The Cloud"... over the Internet..using robust but affordable web-based applications & strategies..including even mobile devices. Right now, many folks are still crying the blues over "The Economy", but quite frankly it is their own attitude and mindset that is the real problem that is making matters worse. See my post about the choices we make...and the energy we flow into them.

As creatures of habit, folks are still working way too hard still trying to do business the same old tired physical world world way...getting frustrated... and then resonating even more negative energy...and you know what that attracts.. even more negative energy.. and even longer economic recovery. On the other hand, with just the right help navigating the new world communications landscape... they could be well on their way to being way more successful and a lot more happy. Here's how:

There are two pieces to this: 1) The first piece involves helping them understand that "success is in the cloud" and what's in this for them, and 2) the second piece involves using my background, experience, skillsets and positive energy flow to help them "connect-the-dots", so that they can start being happier... right now as they move forward saving time, and money by working more strategically :

1. Strategic Planning: This is a disciplined approach that can help you get clear about where you are, where you want to go, and how to get there by using new communications and learning tools & strategies...with a new "hybrid" world  mindset...cultivated over time.. That's what my "connecting the dots" is all about.
   
   
2. Google Applications: If you aren't already using free virtual applications from Google, you run the risk of either losing all your data via local hard drive, or office file server failure, or you are paying too much for remote backup services. You are also spending more time and money than you need to working with local applications and local documents that make updating, document sharing, and collaborative work with strategic business partners more problematic than it needs to be.
   
   
3. Google Site: If you still don't have Google Site, you are paying way too much in time, money, with more costly updating administrative hassles than you have to. I am not paying one cent for my web hosting and my domain name only costs $10 a year. I also don't have to pay anyone else to update my website when I need to make changes. See my own website... developed with new Google website architecture...and see the advanced communications and learning functionality - www.newworldcom.com ...I "walk the walk" myself.
   
   
4. Virtual Meeting Room: If you can meet with people "inside" your website...using next generation "green" web conferencing... you can phenomenally extend your business reach...without spending one cent on gas and without adding one micron of pollution or CO2 emission. By working with us we can even having you "virtualizing" physical world meetings... making in more convenient for board members or strategic business partners...to instantly "get there" and "get back"... and even meeting "face-to-face" using now low cost web conferencing technologies. This capability can also be used for remote consulting, e-learning and for multi-day virtual conferences and trade shows. See my own New World Virtual Meeting Room
   
   
5. Television Channel: The new television technology, with the right help, can be phenomenally powerful when practically applied to develop sustainable business in a 21st century world, especially for smaller businesses and non-profits who have not yet been empowered to leverage this radically new resource. The possibilities are virtually limitless and soon your own web-based television "channel" can even show up on home HDTV screens using new Google TV and other newly-emergent "smart television" technology. See my own New World Television Channel...on my website and my web television-based NWC Overview 2010. Also see What is Google TV? and surf some of the other content that I have programmed there.
   
   
6. Critical Conversations:  If your agenda is to frame and facilitate the conversation about key topics of interest and concern between stakeholders and strategic business partners, you can do this sooner and more powerfully if you use next generation web conferencing, real-time webcasting, and well-designed web television programming to do it...by extending you business reach and mobilize your stakeholders..virtually. What conversations would you like to frame? Talk to me about doing series of critical conversations.
   
   
7. Virtual Focus Groups: If you are not in touch with what people want and need in the way of product/service offering, and public and private policy, we can use multiple intelligent tools and innovative strategies to help you gain focus online... at a mere fraction of the cost and in a mere fraction of the time of doing physical world focus groups. Talk me about how to do these.
   
   
8. Remote Consulting: We can work with you to create whole "net new" streams of revenue by creating a world-class remote consulting practice, using the world's very best, local, regional, national and even international subject matter experts. This consulting can even be "face-to-face" on a 1:1 basis or on a group basis using multiple webcams. Some remote consulting can even been in using new 3D immersive real-time communications...in multiple venues.. that we have been working with.
   
   
9. Virtual Learning: We can help you and others learn and get empowered, and moving your forward by doing learning virtually. We are front-running instructional designers... as well as new world communicators who can leverage the power of multiple  and design a complete rich-media curriculum, or work with you to put your training or tutorials for customers online. We can do virtual learning across an entire enterprise... or public school system... to facilitate broad-based social change and educational reform.
   
   
10. Virtual Fundraising: There are now more opportunities to fund-raise and develop donors then you as a development director may realize that can mesh well with tried-and-true physical world approaches that you are already taking, especially when combined with the new web television, social media, and the "secret sauce" of value innovation that we can uniquely provide. See my recent blog about this.
    
    
11.  Virtual Conferences & Trade Shows: Once people and organizations get comfortable using the tools ...and "Walking The Walk" we can even help them move forward by helping convene entire multi-day virtual conferences & trade shows... done at  mere fraction of the cost of physical world conferences and trade shows and in a mere fraction of the time...with phenomenally greater business reach... and with zero carbon footprint. Even so-called "green" business owners and city-run offices of economic development have sometime new to learn, master, and take advantage of.. and we can help them with that. See my blog about this.

All that folks need to learn how to do is "connect the dots"... and we can help them with that. If you are not already taking advantage of the above-mentioned tools and strategies to move business forward, call us today and we can help you get started. 425-780-6872.

November 2010... Can Be Our Best Thanksgiving yet

This morning I am resonating with an attitude of gratitude ... as I think about ...and flow energy into all the ways that I and New World Communications can help people and organizations move their business powerfully and phenomenally forward, "Walking Through The Virtual Door" in quality-assurable "steps":

• Step One - "Virtualizing" Physical World Meetings...and Potlucks - This uses a high-speed broadband Internet connection, web conferencing and web television... to spread the joy and allow others to potluck with us... in other cities... across the world...as we build relationships...learn about and support one another.... as other folks remotely log in and "be there" too... with zero carbon footprint.
  
  
• Step Two -  Leveraging the Power of the New World Television... starting by creating a series of "channels" that we produce for and program. This television can stream from multiple websites all the way to mobile devices and HDTV television screens...using the entire Internet as an "Internet-work" to develop community, business ...and change the world.
  
  
• Step Three - Engage the World in a series of Critical Conversations & Virtual Focus Groups - The same technology...with communications design can deliver a powerful series of webinars and virtual focus groups...designed to change the world... by mobilizing communications and by informing and shaping public and provide policy. These series of events also use the web conferencing and the web television and can be "virtualized"...or virtual-only.
  
  
• Step Four - Develop a World Class Remote Consulting and E-learning Practice - This will employ and utilize the world's very best local, regional, national and international subject matter experts that I am in the process of outreaching to and developing personal and business relationships with. With this "smart team" of people... we can  continue to...change the world...but even faster and even more effectively...and joyously too.
  
  
• Step Five - Annual Virtual Conferences & Trade Shows - With the same affordable, low-cost but scalable, high-quality resources and working with people and organizations who will be ready for these..after "walking the walk" themselves via steps 1-4 over time, we'll be ready to engage the entire world by doing numerous virtualized...and virtual only events... designed to make our world a better place to live...for multiple stakeholders...from many walks of life. Imagine how great...and how fun...these life-changing, and game-changing events will be! The energy developed and shared will fuel us ...charging our batteries... throughout the year...as well continue to snowball the positive energy...and great vibes as we develop community...and business across the planet as we go. 

Yes, November 2010 ... and continuing moving forward with these "steps" in a timely and mission-critical way...can be ... the best Thanksgiving yet... with much to feast upon, celebrate and toast to. Call me and let's connect if you like what we are now able to bring to the table... in a joyous and thankful way. 425-780-6972.

Smart Grid Training - We're Ready Whenever Cities Are Ready

What's on my mind this morning is the new smart grid that's about to be installed and the kind of training for multiple stakeholders that can make a qualitative difference... as well as a bottom line difference...for multiple stakeholders ... in this newly emergent "green" economy of ours...and for my own front-running small business, New World Communications....not only hopefully... but also intentionally.

The challenge and the opportunity lies in thinking "outside the box" by not only designing and delivering traditional instructor-led training, but also adding a virtual world training toolset... and most importantly by cultivating a more innovative "hybrid world" mindset that can also fully leverage new 21st century tools and strategies.

Wow! What a great opportunity smart grid implementation is to serve multiple communities and stakeholders well, creating new jobs, and new dreams while helping our economy recover, and making ours a better world...Nice!

For the last few years, we've been working on that, and our new "green" communications and e-learning approach and platform that we designed to deliver the mission-critical learning a new world needs is ready to do that by uniquely providing the following resources:

• 21st century instructional design and delivery services tailor-fit to address multiple clients' needs ...including diverse stakeholders in diverse communities even.
  
• Eco-friendly "big-reach", "learning-rich" web conferencing with a special patented "green meter" that automatically calculates: 1) physical world miles not travelled, 2) $ of fuel not spent, and even 3) pounds of CO2 not emitted... every time that folks e-meet and learn online.
  
• Powerful web television-based learning assets using radically new ultra compact low-cost, almost no cost video technology

As training contractors ourselves and as a minority-based small business enterprise, with years of experience, I look forward to working closely with cities in providing the mission-critical learning that can make smart grid implementation a quality experience that all businesses and multiple stakeholders can benefit from.... Both I and my rapidly scalable company, New World Communications are ready ...whenever cities are ready to move forward. For more information, call me at 425-780-6872.