The New World Communications Landscape: New Strategies & Tools to Move You Forward

This morning what's on my mind is how many small business owners, not-for-profit managers and government agency mangers and elected officials are needlessly stuck, still trying to the do business basically the same old expensive, unsustainable physical world way with the same old expensive carbon-intensive world toolsets and mindsets. Every day I hear them lamenting about how bad things are with "the  economy", scrambling and competing for dollars... with less and less success... when there is a whole new world communications landscape out there...chocked full of net-new opportunities waiting to be seized that could phenomenally improve their situations . Here are just a few of them:

• Strategic communications planning for business development - Most small businesses and non-profits still have not developed a comprehensive online communications and learning strategy using multiple 21st century tools & strategies that leverages what they do in the physical world to generate "net new" revenue streams.
  
  
• Web presence - It now possible to even meet with existing and prospective clients "inside" their websites and turn them into virtual learning and conference centers... greatly extending their business reach and improving their communications. Some web architectures are designed to manage tiered membership plans and a web television channel can even be added. Skills are also needed to instructionally-design the communications and the learning, but we here at New World Communications can provide that... as well as train others.
  
  
• Television - Television is in a class all by itself as the world's most powerful communications medium. Streamed across the Internet and affordably produced and streamed using low-cost, almost no cost video technology... Quality television programming can now be produced that can phenomenally move business forward in a myriad of ways - to promote businesses and programs, train multiple stakeholders and develop whole communities ...even nation-states. Used in conjunction with next-generation web conferencing and applied to small business development and educational reform applications, the new web television can change the world... and with a background in both television systems, programming, and distance learning, we know how to do that.
  
  
• Web conferencing - for e-meetings, collaborative work, collaborative fund-raising, and grants procurement, critical conversations, remote-consulting, and e-learning...This is an "ultra-green" big-reach capability that is potentially very "learning-rich" especially if it is used to develop a world-class remote consulting and e-learning practice capable of addressing the worlds many, many challenges.
  
  
• Mobile Communications - Both the television and the e-learning are now finding their way to mobile devices from laptops to iPhones, Android phones, and other smart mobile devices and big players like Google, Apple, and telephony providers are all driving that. 

These reason why many if not most small business owners,  non-profit managers, and government agency managers still haven't ventured onto the new world communications landscape and taken advantage of it has to do with the fact that most folks still are not "familiar with the neighborhood". The still have not acquired the tools, strategies....and most importantly...the Mindset needed to move forward. This is a "mission-critical" issue. If owners and managers still don't know to leverage new tools & resources in pursuit of their mission with the right "hybrid" world Mindset ...that combines best practices from both physical and virtual worlds, then they still remain "stuck"...and miserable. 

This is why we here at New World Communications are also committed to "providing the mission-critical learning a new world needs"...in order to move forward...with more joy...and even more fun...as we help move business forward more sustainably. Hopefully my daily blogs can help make folks aware that there are new ways to work that are much more sustainable than the way that they keep trying to work. Wow is it this a great time be be alive, aware, and skilled... with just the kinds of resources that people and organizations need now. Call me and let's connect. By working together, we can help you take advantage of the New World Communications Landscape - 425-780-6872.

This "Economy": The Challenge Really is the Opportunity

This morning after watching President Obama last night on 60 Minutes skillfully and responsibly manage the challenges and the negativity being thrown at at him ...and experiencing his grace and elegance... and most importantly, his sense of hope and resolve.. and how he flowed positive energy in a humble but strong way...even as he responded to his attacks... it made me think about this "Economy".. all over again... and what the challenge and the opportunity is as exhibited by Oback's remarkable leadership and sense of humanity. I then searched for an image on Google Images that communicated the spirit of this.. and BINGO...the Universe again responded.. This leaping goldfish ...transcending his crowded situation..says it all...President Obama is like that goldfish... and remains an inspiration to me. 

What President Obama continues to teach us.. is that "The Challenge"... really is THE OPPORTUNITY. Here's what I mean

• Seeing the Economy for what it is... a "crisis in confidence"... but get the sequence right...understanding and leveraging the Law of Attraction. Putting out a lot of negative energy because of our lack of confidence... only puts our more lack of confidence not more....so "The Economy"...which really is only a state of mind... our "crisis of confidence" ...gets worse.. not better.
  
  
• Instead of being a "victim" of  basically bad vibes that attract more bad vibes... Tea Partyers ....ignorant, knee-jerk folk like Sarah Palin are issuing in and enjoying a temporary reign of ignorance that momentarily makes them feel proud, but actually this is very bad for our country ...because it's only negative energy that they are putting out that begets more negative energy.. and lack of confidence... "The Economy" is basically a state of mind... and an energy field...if more negative energy is flowing than positive... then.. that's what you get.
  
  President Obama on other hand, for me personally, especially when the I see the way he responds, recover and move forward is still my shining star,  a positive change agent... just "learning" from the experience... and transcending it as the resourceful, intelligent and caring human being that he is....exuding confident, positive energy, ultimately and infinitely more powerful than that sea of ugly disgruntled faces...contorted by the their own ignorance that has nothing substantive to offer.
  
  
• President Obama said it last night on 60 Minutes, even while we was being attacked on the show. The economy in fact was tanking...before he even came into office, as the result of years of unregulated economic speculation allowed by, condoned by, a Republican-led administration that promoted this unregulated...unbridled... speculation that brought about the crisis. Much of the speculation was in fact...criminal in nature...with circles of speculators flipping houses buying low and selling high, and selling awful financial products, variable interest rate mortgages and second mortgages that put people under water. Listen to folks This American Life and the story NPR's Planet Money did about, "Toxie" the "toxic asset" they purchased.. to learn about. Their story about "Toxie" is excellent journalism.
  
  The banks that bought the paper which became "toxic" assets were all part of this agenda as well... an agenda which created a "crisis" of their brand of Capitalism that they so loved and cherished. It was then the banks that used their influence to have the government bail them with TARP under outgoing President George W. Bush. Obama did what he could with his team to execute TARP and actually repayment... at least on the part of the larger banks..under Obama's adminstration has proceeded quite well.
  
  
• The OPPORTUNITY then squarely has to do with COMMUNICATIONS and LEARNING and  how to create and construct our world in a way that makes more sense and that is more enlightened then what is fed us by corporate-owned networks. What's really new now is how the power of new Internet and World Wide Web tools & strategies can ...especially web television... web conferencing... and social medial... now be innovatively leveraged to create more confidence first...through enlightened communications and learning... and then have a developing, recovering economy follow... that even transcends party lines.  Notice the sequence here that adheres to the Laws of Attraction... exuding confidence first... attracting more positive energy... and flowing that energy into positive change... that builds even more confidence.. getting people spending and creating jobs... and wealth again...that is more authentic.. honest and helpful.
  
  We here at New World Communications realize that this will take time... but we intend to do this in "Steps" that add and leverage a virtual world toolset and that cultivate a hybrid world mind set. See what we are already beginning to bring to our plate for November 2010...for one of the best Thanksgivings yet.  I welcome any and all comments, let's connect ...as human beings and transcend the partisan politics fixing this economy and not making things worse  with our own bad vibes. 1-425-780-6872.

Five New Ways to Create Net New Revenue for Government Workforce Training Operations

This morning I am thinking about a nice set of meetings I had yesterday, right after the election with two of my best government clients interested is exploring new ways to create "net new" revenue for their workforce training operations...even in spite of budgetary shortfalls and failed propositions that would have raised taxes. Wow, was I fortunate that they would even talk to me, but the fact that I had already helped their businesses by using the new television...to seize new opportunity bought me a little credibility that I was able to leverage.

Here then are five timely new ways...or "steps" for creating net new revenue streams for government workforce training operations ...even in spite of tax-based revenue shortfalls and failed propositions to raise taxes:

1. "Virtualize" all those physical world meetings: Consider adding affordable web conferencing and new low cost, almost no-cost web television to "virtualize" all those physical world meetings for phenomenal advantage ...and taking nothing away. Instead of just projecting local Powerpoint presentations, you project the live web conferencing session on the wall.. and allow remote participants to also "get there" and "get back" ...almost instantly ...just by logging on and off.. and burning not one drop of gas... and adding not one micron of pollution or CO2 emission. People can even log in from home,  or from their favorite cafe with WiFi hotspot.
   
   The content of the meetings can be way better...because of the phenomenal business reach... local, regional, and national people can meet in the same virtual architecture...for way better collaboration... in way less time. Those newly-purchased smartboards are great for projecting a live conferencing session...right on the wall, still with all the great annotation capabilities... further leveraging investment in them...by having remote presenter and participants also "be there" for additional advantage. Even web television... produced by us.. and by you can be rolled into these sessions... see next:
   
   
2. Leverage the Power of the New Web Television: While others are using low-cost, almost no cost "video" technology for birthday parties, vacations, graduations and family events, we are using it to produce powerful web television programming designed to train and empower people ...and change the world. We come out of a television systems and public television programming and distance learning background and know how to produce and leverage television programming in a phenomenally powerful way that can move business forward.
   
   Think about it... television is in a class all by itself as a communications medium.. and distributed across the Internet...using the entire Internet...as an Internet-work... in our hands this can be a marvelously powerful workforce training and re-training tool...even making physical training...way more effective...and fun...when we can "roll" in best practices web television that we can produce... and empower others to produce. Already we have even trained and empowered at-risk, court-involved youth on how to produce some of their own television-based learning content..with this stuff... authoring ..and spinning their stories...constructing their lives..and raising their consciousness.. in more positive ways. Adults can learn how to do this too.
   
   
3. Engage Your Learning Community in a Series of Critical Conversations & Virtual Focus Groups:  One of the big challenges of workforce training is information "siloing" and lack of collaborative communications between agencies. Web conferencing and web television are marvelous powerful resources for cost-effectively meeting with and collaborating with learning stakeholders... including prospective "trainees" themselves who can be a part of these online conversations ...providing input and feedback that can both inform as well as shape public and private policy.. This can also help inform and shape your training curriculum.. having it be on target...and better utilized.
   
   
4. Create Additional Revenue By Developing a World-class Remote Consulting and E-learning Practice: If yours is already a model workforce training organization gaining local, regional, and national recognition in your field, then you should consider the ideas of training other agencies in other jurisdictions... and getting paid for it via highly lucrative contract consulting work delivered via the same 21st century green communications and learning platform that you have been using ...and developing your business with. Your professional development training offering, could also be world-class because of the phenomenal advantages of this big-reach, and potentially learning-rich capability. The world's very best local, regional, and even national subject matter experts, authors, trainers...even key political officials...can get there and get back...just by logging in and out..with zero travel cost... and with zero carbon footprint. Our approach... is instructionally-designed to get you ready for this. If you master steps 1-3, you'll be ready to take this step....and will have have even more resources to take an even more lucrative step... doing entire multi-day virtual conferences & virtual trade shows. See next.
   
   
5. Convene Multi-day Virtual Conferences & Virtual Trade Shows - As you might suspect... as instructional designers and trainers ourselves... our approach is also instructionally-designed ..walking the walk.. in "steps"  that get you ready to even seize this lucrative new opportunity - convening your own highly lucrative multi-day virtual conferences & trade events ...that leverage what you have learned and mastered by taking steps 1-4 over time. 

What's important to note is that doing all of this ....costs way less ...and is way more sustainable than the way that most workforce training organizations are still attempting to do business now...and with less and less budget to do it...the same old conventional physical world only...way. So the "challenge"... really is the NEW OPPORTUNITY..if managers elect to use net new tools and strategies... and value innovation ...as their "secret sauce"...to seize it... This is what we here at New World Communications are about and uniquely provide. For more information, let's connect and talk about moving forward with  these resources -  425-780-6872.

New World Communications Documents Day Long Domestic Violence Conference

This morning after uploading all forty clips...covering about three hours... I am thinking about the marvelous and thoughtful community-based  domestic conference that I recently attended down in Tacoma and how great the new web television is for capturing and sharing important events like this. Television is a powerful medium in a class all by itself, and even more powerful when we can now produce and distribute it ...across the entire Internet...using new low-cost ... no cost technologies.

The first visionary speaker ...doing the evocation...citing the lesson of the Chilean miners...for our humanity..and challenging us to free our own "minds" ... is the honorable Dr. Maxine Mimms, founder of the Tacoma campus of Evergreen State College and more recently founder of the Maxine Mimms Academy, an institution that provides learning services to expelled and suspended youths. Experience how she brings all the conference participants together to focus on the issue of domestic violence.

The new television... web television... that goes all the way to mobile devices ...and soon even to HDTV screens is powerful new resource that can be intelligently applied to develop community and to change the world.  Call me and let's connect about what we can now do with the new television and other powerful communications and learning tools and strategies to build capacity and grow not-for-profit business - 425-780-6872

VideoVolunteers-Voices Unheard is a Best Practice..and a "Virtual Field Trip" from India to Learn From

This morning I am thinking about changing the world via the power of the new television and how to communicate that to my friends and colleagues. I don't know what's messing with them...consciousness-wise but they still don't seem to get it... so I searched Google Images for "Community Television" images to get some inspiration and some positive thoughts and feelings resonating... Then BINGO! ...the Universe responds by having me discover ...just what I need... a volunteer community-based television best practice being done in Goa, India by a non-governmental organization (NGO) called Video Volunteers - Voices Unheard - See their website at http://www.videovolunteers.org/ .... the first thing you see on their homepage is a most provocative question that they pose....

"What if the poorest ONE BILLION people in the world had their own MEDIA INDUSTRY?"

Even to be able to pose that kind of question, people  had to develop critical consciousness to ask it...but more than that... they already are outreaching and empowering entire communities to create that media industry...themselves.. as they develop community...using the power of the new television. The other pieces to this are also all there... the powerful issues that they focus on and care deeply about with excellent well-done fundraising website, and  nice presence on Facebook and  Twitter. Most important is that they evidence the fact that they have gotten themselves...ORGANIZED... They have developed the organizational capacity to raise funds and develop donors... sustaining themselves...moving business forward to accomplish their mission and achieve their vision...obviously driven by an excellent Strategic Plan and high-performance organization....in order to be able to accomplish all of what they intend....and evidence.

Goa, India is a poor community...with less resources than we have...but one advantage that they have that communities here still don't have is this degree of critical consciousness,  media sophistication and organizational capacity. It's like other communities that we are now noticing...across the world... the best recipes for learning and for social change ...are now coming from those one billion poor people themselves...on the way to creating their own media industry... We just need to learn from them. Check out this excellent site, get inspired and see what I mean....this is most "instructive"...as well as "prescriptive" http://www.videovolunteers.org/.. especially with respect to the way that they effectively communicate across multiple venues in our now 21st century world. 

Then call me and in addition to just talking about taking "field trips" to national parks after watching Oprah and Gayle party in Yosemite...and "journalizing"... let's talk about producing our own powerful community-authored television...to help our own communities.. and change the world. 1-425-780-6872

Need More Funds? Work with Us to Use the New Web Television to Fund-raise and Develop Donors

This morning non-profit organizations and their need to raise more funds and develop donors is on my mind. The new web television designed, and produced to make your case and spin your stories can most definitely make the difference, helping not-for profit organizations develop capacity and in a number of ways. We combine web television programming that we produce with state-of-the-art web conferencing to help not-for profit organizations develop their business in quality assurable steps:

• Step One - Virtualize meetings. This can also allow board members to remotely attend if they are out of town. This uses web conferencing, and the web television can be rolled into meeting sessions.
  
  
• Step Two - Leverage the Power of the New World Television - We can create a web television channel on your website as well as produce television that hosts on YouTube and that is shared in social media.. and that goes all the way to mobile devices and even to HDTV screens using new Google TV technology.
  
  
• Step Three - Engage the World in a Series of Critical Conversations...about your cause... Use the web television and the web conferencing to do them. The same technology can even be used for doing virtual focus groups.
  
  
• Step Four - Develop a Remote Consulting and E-Learning Practice that utilizes web television ...along with state-of-the-art web conferencing that we can also provide and support.
  
  
• Step Five - Leverage the Power of the New Web Television in Multi-day Virtual Conferences and Trade Shows that we can also put on... to phenomenally grow your business.

For more information, let's connect at 1-780-6872.

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.