Network Evolution – where do we go from here?
It is of course very hard to predict the future however we have to an idea of where online Networks are going in order to attempt some form of planning. I think if we follow the Guilds as a guide we know Guilds evolved into Mutuals, into Building Societies, into Insurance companies and ultimately into Banks.
Perhaps that is one way Networks like Ecademy and others could go. Not necessarily to become banks, of course, but certainly to become trusted intermediaries.
Another way is to become media in their own right much like the the Googlezon Video suggests (though possibly without the catastrophic consequences it predicts). It is possible to become a newspaper, a magazine, a TV channel, a radio channel or a mix of all four or an online vehicle for an existing media player, who knows.
Some of the networks might even become global universities vehicles for education and learning and thus true institutions of the kind I mentioned earlier. The freeform generation will certainly need access to education and training aimed at keeping their skills relevant – a role filled by employers for those in employment.
During the course of the last 91 months almost 93,000 people have joined Ecademy from around the world. This happened entirely through word of mouth and is a remarkable tribute to the active members of Ecademy and their online recommendations and referrals.
What began – in 1998 - as 27 people in a bar drinking chardonnay at the IOD and talking about the future of ecommerce has grown into a global community discussing almost everything imaginable under the sun. There are now 54,000 blogs on Ecademy and over 228,000 comments since we started blogging some 42 months ago.
These figures reflect what is truly amazing about what has happened both inside and outside Ecademy. 7500 people have chosen to become paying subscribers of Ecademy and without them this Network would not be what it is or where it is today. To them I say and we say a very big thank you for supporting us, for believing in us and for sharing us with your friends.
It might be not even be the current management team who take it to its next stage of development whatever that might be.
What the founders, our management team and our country leaders and BlackStar Life Members and all our subscribers around the world know is that at the heart of this particular Ecademy network, is a friendship that is long lasting, a friendship that is physically and mentally enhancing and a friendship that also emits a great deal of work and opportunity for its participating and contributing members around the globe.
Our job now is to internationalise and broaden this network still further so that connecting business people around the world becomes the norm and ordinary and not something special or unique to a select few. It is our belief that by focusing on creating “A Friend in Every City”, networks like Ecademy can provide the backbone of future opportunity for our children and for their children across this tiny planet we call Earth.
Posted by Thomas Power
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Perhaps that is one way Networks like Ecademy and others could go. Not necessarily to become banks, of course, but certainly to become trusted intermediaries.
Another way is to become media in their own right much like the the Googlezon Video suggests (though possibly without the catastrophic consequences it predicts). It is possible to become a newspaper, a magazine, a TV channel, a radio channel or a mix of all four or an online vehicle for an existing media player, who knows.
Some of the networks might even become global universities vehicles for education and learning and thus true institutions of the kind I mentioned earlier. The freeform generation will certainly need access to education and training aimed at keeping their skills relevant – a role filled by employers for those in employment.
During the course of the last 91 months almost 93,000 people have joined Ecademy from around the world. This happened entirely through word of mouth and is a remarkable tribute to the active members of Ecademy and their online recommendations and referrals.
What began – in 1998 - as 27 people in a bar drinking chardonnay at the IOD and talking about the future of ecommerce has grown into a global community discussing almost everything imaginable under the sun. There are now 54,000 blogs on Ecademy and over 228,000 comments since we started blogging some 42 months ago.
These figures reflect what is truly amazing about what has happened both inside and outside Ecademy. 7500 people have chosen to become paying subscribers of Ecademy and without them this Network would not be what it is or where it is today. To them I say and we say a very big thank you for supporting us, for believing in us and for sharing us with your friends.
It might be not even be the current management team who take it to its next stage of development whatever that might be.
What the founders, our management team and our country leaders and BlackStar Life Members and all our subscribers around the world know is that at the heart of this particular Ecademy network, is a friendship that is long lasting, a friendship that is physically and mentally enhancing and a friendship that also emits a great deal of work and opportunity for its participating and contributing members around the globe.
Our job now is to internationalise and broaden this network still further so that connecting business people around the world becomes the norm and ordinary and not something special or unique to a select few. It is our belief that by focusing on creating “A Friend in Every City”, networks like Ecademy can provide the backbone of future opportunity for our children and for their children across this tiny planet we call Earth.
Posted by Thomas Power
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