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Online, Open, Town Hall
meetings for small business owners: Though many small businesses within a
local geography, or Designated Market Area* (DMA), will get the broadcast
notice of their local collaboration event, other people -- especially those who
have registered and said, "Count me in!" -- will also be invited. Eventually
when a LiveMeeting is occuring somewhere in the country, anybody who has
registered will be able to join.
These Live Meetings are like a chat room on rocket
boosters. Everyone can see and hear the leader. Everybody can watch the same
short video clip from that episode if needed to demonstrate a point. Everybody
can easily follow along as particular part of a case study guide and transcript
are reviewed. Everybody can even examine the web pages of local business people
without opening another browser or clicking on a link. Everybody is together,
all on the same page, all hearing the same voice, all at the same time. The
leader can even pass the microphone to you; and if you have a webcam, everybody
will see and hear you.
Television has never been used quite this way
-- a highly, self-selecting group all having watched the same educational
television content, all then coming into a local session led by a local leader
to discuss local issues.
The leader of the session. The leadership
will be provided by small business advocates within the local Chamber of
Commerce, Economic Development Commission, the local SBA-SBDC-SCORE office,
Workforce Initiative, local business professors from your university, and even
local business writers, editors, coaches or experts within a subject matter.
This page will be expanded
in conjunction with
Live Meeting to open several practice
activities for those people not familiar with collaboration or
Live Meeting software. It should be fun
and informative, but ultimately we hope this activist television show
gains traction and each episode becomes standard fair for most small business
owners in their community.
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| What is
happening today? What is possible? |
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Understanding
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challenge: Television is underutilized. It's always been a one-way street
but now with the convergence of broadcasting, communications, distribution,
information, and publishing right here on the the web, it is a major
super-highway yet we're all still going single-file in one direction. It
behooves us to begin testing new ideas. Down with couch potatoes; up with
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together and solve some problems. Every region has problems. Let's solve
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Business School Challenge: Each episode of our television show is broadcast
at a particular time wthin the week. Most people watch television alone --
there is no community. There is no discussion. As much as we have tried to get
people to watch the show with friends or at work (some record it and do that),
it would be so much better to create some buzz about how the show is redefining
television... how it becomes a huge meeting of the like-minded ...how people
from around the world discuss local problems after every broadcast!
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vision that'll get some buzz. |
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Dynamics. The Live Meeting will open at the time each episode begins to be
broadcast. We will not discourage people from watching the show and "talking"
while it is airing. This a time for people to become better acquainted with the
software and to mingle. There will be links to the overview, case study guide,
transcript and video will be simulcast. When the session formally starts at the
end of the broadcast, there will be opportunities for every person to get in
the queue to raise a point. |
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Live Meeting software provides the
ability to have private chat sessions within the event, i.e. among local
businesses owners in the same chamber of commerce or trade association.
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page to enter. Each station will have their own special URL and landing
page to gain access to their events. Eventually, if there is a collaboration
event that is going on when you visit the SmallBusinessSchool web site,
it will be flashing on the homepage and you can gain access if you are
registered and you have the client software loaded on your system. |
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