3DN community portals
Community Portals
- When I view the existing pattern of flows, I am seeing the attention of most people on how they can obtain what they need in those flows. Building a better world requires us to shift the attention of more and more people to how we can change the pattern so it works better for all of us. Businesses, through marketing, attempt to do that all the time. They seek to attract attention to change the flow to increase the volume of business. Social purpose organizations such as Daniel's are attempting the same thing with far fewer resources. That is why I think I can get support from existing businesses and social purpose organizations to build a community asset that facilitates more and more people thinking about how they have the power to change the pattern and how that power might be used most constructively.
- What should that asset look like? It should be useful for people in the same way that the local paper is useful. It should be the medium that people choose as the way to keep in touch with what is going on around them.
- Right now, each of our portals to the internet is our browser, our bookmarks, our favorites and our e-mail. I'm sure some people have better set ups than I do through which they do such things as catch up on the news, check the stock market or sport scores, etc. How can we make the portal more useful to none tech people?
- I am thinking of a internet portal with information specific to the location of the person. What would your grandmother like to see in her portal? I am thinking such things as what is playing at the local theater, special events coming up in the neighborhood, gossip about the neighbors, the business directory, local news and politics, . . . and a discussion of ideas about ways we might improve the neighborhood. Every thing in the portal already knows grandma – so she is not constantly logging in – but she can also customize her site or expand its area of search at will.
- Any other ideas?
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