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    Our mission is to create vibrant online communities that engender member participation and self-organization. 



    What do your members have to say?  What would they like to contribute?  How can distributed work teams manage projects and documents?  With the use of blogs, forums, event calendars, newsletters, and online resource and document management - we can help you find out.  All features can be viewed and/or edited as publicly or as privately as you desire.  All content creation and updating is done through a web browser, so you and your members can build your community from any location at any time.
      

    Cultivate your Community
    Keep it Moving
    Do not be static.  The Internet is a liquid medium.  Don't let you web site be wallpaper.  Your Internet presence should be an organic, flowing, daily dialogue with your members, back and forth.  If you aren't corresponding with your member by email, if you don't have a blog or forum, if you're not using your web site to engage the people around you... then your are wasting your time on the Net.

    Build a Community
    Create a commons, a town square, a place where people can come together to talk about their Ford Mustangs or their Kodak cameras.  Get people involved!  This is not top-down, one-to-many anymore.  The Internet is side-to-side, up-and-down, and many-to-many.  Use it that way.  It's the dialogue that counts.

    Civic Engagement
    The Net builds communities and brings people together.  It is providing the first significant reversal of trends reported in Robert Putnam's alarming book Bowling Alone - the isolation of Americans, the death of participatory politics, and the unraveling of the fabric of critical social and civic structures.

    - Joe Trippi
    Howard Dean's Presidential Campaign Manager
      

    What Lies Ahead
    In U.S. politics the party that most quickly absorbs the latest technology often dominates. F.D.R. dominated radio and the fireside chat; J.F.K., televised debates; Republicans, direct mail and then talk radio, and now Karl Rove's networked voter databases.

    The next technological model - which Howard Dean accidentally uncovered but never fully developed - will revolve around the power of networks, forums and blogging. The public official or candidate will no longer just be the one who talks to the many or tries to listen to the many. Rather, he or she will be a hub of connectivity for the many to work with the many - creating networks of public advocates to identify and solve problems and get behind politicians who get it.

    An elected official by himself can't solve all the problems of his constituents, but the combined resources of the constituents, if networked together, can solve their own problems. They can spot and offer solutions better and faster than any bureaucrat. ... The party that stakes out this new frontier will be the majority party in the 21st century.

    - Thomas L. Friedman
    New York Times Foreign Affairs Columnist
      

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