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The capacity to discover and participate in our unfolding
future has more to do with our being -- our total
orientation of character and consciousness -- than with what
we do ... a domain in which we and those around us
continually deepen our understanding of reality and are able
to participate in shaping the future. ... collectively
'listening' to what is wanting to emerge in the world, and
then having the courage to do what is required.
~~Joseph
Jaworski.
[He is talking about specifically leadership as said domain,
but I would like to apply this to any and all who gather
together for a purpose with this kind of willing
purposefulness to be guided from within. In: Synchronicity:
The Inner Path of Leadership]
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Partnership,
Funding & Collaboration
Two
Possible Funding Options
[Examples
/ Ideas]
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However this manifests, I need first and foremost a
financial adviser and manager who also oversees all
the accounting and legal concerns. I want to
be continually apprised of all details of this, but
I do not want to do this myself. As big as
this project is, it would require someone probably
on a full-time basis. Heshe would
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help
me set up a projected budgeting plan based on
priorities and on regular and irregular funding
needs
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keep
me informed on legal aspects as well, such as,
re: all taxes and business and legal fees
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provide
a regular accounting of our financial activities
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work
with me as a co-researcher and adviser in terms
of making sure we are getting the best resources
/ making the best choices in terms of how the
building and maintenance of the project develops
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eventually
oversee the daily [etc.] accountability of all
financial and legal aspects of each subweb, once
it becomes fully operational. Must take
into consideration that this is dependent on how
any further partnering relationships may be set
up ..
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Plan A
Carte blanche full go-ahead and financial
means to hire the staff needed and get this
done in a comprehensive and efficient way.
With the initial few on board -- perhaps it
could be a Board! -- we will go through this
with careful deliberation to come up with a detailed plan of
development for the site, mapped out
over time.
Imagine a tract that would go something like
this: approximately every two months a completed
new subweb goes up with a lot of savvy PR
and marketing expertise to give it the best
possible launch.
Simultaneously, we would have translators
and administrators and IT people producing
this in at least several other key
languages, thinking particularly of
targeted cultures or countries within which
also to seed this work.
Suggested options:
If
it is important the project fairly
immediately start bringing in its own
income, I'd recommend starting with
the Larger Life Reality Portal ...
then Living the Awakened Life.
If this is not an immediate
concern, I would recommend starting with the Physical
Death and Dying Portal, because it
meets so many people in one of the
likeliest places where they feel
the need to look for deeper
answers to life. It offers a natural sense of progression
from those needs all the way to what
spiritually transformative experiences
are, their healing, even awakening
influence, what they portend, why we
would want to imagine cultivating an
"EHEerly life" based on
their transformative potential, and
finally the reality of this Movement itself.
The personnel will be hired
or contracted as the need arises. In
other words, this will grow organically, not
just 'instantly' hire all these people and
hurry up and wait for things to
develop.
Any time projections and numbers of people
suggested on this page and at present are
purely arbitrary. Because of the
complexity of each subweb and the project as
a whole, I expect it will take a
considerable number of folks, and that will
be an organic development, based on the
resources we will have to make this
happen. With that in mind, here are the teams I
envision and roughly the order "on
paper" I see this unfolding:
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Teams
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How
Many People
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Notes
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1.
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Orientation
/ Training
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[RR]
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Initially,
I will do all the training /
orientation and probably most
or all the hiring, or at least
would be involved in the final
decision-making. I will
gradually relinquish this task
as the collective culture
becomes firmly established.
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2.
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IT
/ Web-building and Maintenance
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15
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There
is an infrastructure, mostly built
for wHe. The first decision
we must make is whether to
continue with this or build from
scratch.
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3.
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Managerial
and Administrative; money
management, legal services,
accounting, Human Resources
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25+
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Management
not only of the .com sites,
but also the to-be .org sites.
Includes
heavy data entry and online
research to find and convert
raw data for a number of
databases
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4.
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Marketing
and PR
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10
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For
the webs and for the EHE Study
Groups, on- and offline
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PDD
Subweb Staff -- Education /
information; support groups;
online memorials, obits
online; suicide crisis
prevention
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25
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Much
to set up in terms of various
types of resources and
information / education, which
will then largely take care of
itself. A number of
group-support modalities that
will require vigilant care,
due to the fragile nature of
many people who will be drawn
here. Will require being
more immediately present to
clients; may require some
counseling staff and monitors
for some of support group
options.
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LLR
Subweb Staff, including Personal
Pages membership
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15
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One
of its biggest tasks will be to
set up and maintain the
books/media sales through
amazon.com and other options.
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LAL
Subweb Staff -- could be divided
into a number of interests:
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25+
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Lots
of interface with global
community; writing articles,
columns, doing surveys, its
own magazine that could be as
rich as anything on the
market. Lots of 2-way
feedback and
correspondence. At least
one major membership,
re: social
investing. And:
all the activist aspects to be
set up and maintained.
Wonder what we might do with
Green Jobs as a major
networking agency?
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8.
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LAL
Co-op Staff -- There will be members
and nonmembers, which may be
handled separately for
accounting purposes.
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25
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Huge
database setup, maintenance;
many/most of these
affiliate-type program
relationships. We will
have our 'good housekeeping'
aspects to establish and
run. This has a major
membership to oversee.
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ESC
Subweb Staff -- this may be
facilitated tremendously by
the enthusiastic volunteerism
of the clients
themselves. Could be
intensely active!
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25
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Major
membership web.
Hopefully staffed from get-go
by people who will themselves
benefit by their involvement
here. Facilitator-people
who find ways to optimize a
flow for all that highly
creative and sensitive
energetic that will come with
this population.
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DTCII
Subweb Staff -- with its own library
and conferences; also to do
its own research and writing /
presenting / publishing.
May need its own publishing
arm.
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Requires
setting up a whole research
organization. Same types
of needs, but different
science. This is a major
membership web that will have
its own journal and
conferences. Also
requires a major networking
maven.
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11.
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Staff
for the ESC
Study Groups Online --
For online and offline, I want
to study IANDS and the Edgar
Cayce study groups --
others? And see how best
to build this. Or maybe
we will hire a few seasoned
players within this type of
arena who will just take this
and go!
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5+
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Development
and maintenance of a
"loose" enrichment
program that gives much room
for highly creative input and
direction to the members
themselves. Something on
the order of Yahoo group
structures, but they will be
somewhat reliant on us for
materials and feedback.
Will have, in conjunction with
the offline membership
population, its own
conferences and magazine or
journal.
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Staff
for the ESC
Study Groups Offline
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5+
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See
online version of this.
This will be a paying
membership, per group.
We will provide educational
materials and all else that is
to be expected of this kind of
highly interactive
interest. We may provide
speakers and
"coaches" for this.
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13.
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Multimedia
and multi-technology-
based
development and publishing
[videos, RSS, our own books,
CDs, even movies ... ]
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25
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This
is for the entire
multi-community complex --
many opportunities for such
initiatives on nearly all of
the subwebs, as well as
developing materials for the
ESC Study Groups
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14.
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Events
online and offline
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10
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Regular
and special programs,
conferences -- ours as well as
keeping on top of ones we
should attend
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15.
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Translators and
all other staff necessary to
bring this to people who do
not speak English -- also
sensitively assimilated to
meet other-cultural
understandings with more than
merely tact; with gentle grace
and love and in a way that
awakens the joy of
recognition, and
participation.
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60+
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This
may turn into much more than
merely translating! But
for a start we need a way to
adapt our services through
translators and such options
as are available for this
online. But in the long
run we need reliable
translators and whoever else
may be required to ensure this
flows smoothly and
seamlessly with the English
rendition. We really
do want to nurture a very
powerfully connected, global
presence as a Movement!
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TOTAL:
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296+
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Most
will be hired, trained, fully
engaged within the first year.
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In the case of each segment of the project,
usually defined by a subweb, the funding
person/s or organization, the financial
adviser, I, any partners or other major
players involved in its development and
future functioning, and any specialized
advisory persons [including for
marketing/PR] we may need for each part
would meet to map out that piece of the
work. It
would have its own developmental integrity
and timeline within the larger schema.
As it evolves, there will come into
play overlapping stages of the various
subwebs [in development, pre-launch/PR,
launch, fully in operation, and including a
regular status meeting of key people for
each sub-site, once operational].
When the
first segment is fully launched on the
internet, there will be then concurrent
ongoing scenarios to watch and work with in
regards to all the subwebs, such as the
building of one segment along with ongoing
maintenance of previously launched subwebs.
In each case there will have to be
partners / staff in position to manage these
individual subwebs [including hiring,
training, etc., during pre-launch time].
As an example, by months 9-10, the
development activities might look like this:
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Developments
in projected
2-month increments
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PDD
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LLR
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LAL
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ESC
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DTCII
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Development; marketing
/ PR; seeking partners, staff
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X
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X
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X
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X
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New
staff / partners: orientation,
training, planning; clarity on
goals, communications and teamship
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X
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X
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X
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X
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Getting
it done: continued building of
the site; creating and filling all
databases; implementing all the
interactive operations; adding and
editing all text
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X
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X
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X
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Pre-launch:
thorough testing, troubleshooting;
creation of manuals for operation of
each subweb
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X
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Launch
and early operations:
continued troubleshooting,
fine-tuning
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Regular
full operations: hiring and
training operations people as we
continue to expand
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Post-launch
review and reassessment every
quarter for the first year with all
major players coming together to do
this; at the end of one year, see
where we are and determine if we
need to alter our review frequency
and plans
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Plan B
Plan B suggests a scenario based on the
assistance I feel is most needed to do this
on a minimalistic basis over time, though
with the same intended outcome of completing
the whole design as planned. We could
start with the following needs and expand as
the development requires it :
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The
financial manager/adviser mentioned
above
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Totally
at my disposal, a top-notch web
designer/webmaster and all the requisite
software, etc. to continue building and
to maintain the sites as planned.
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PR/marketing
expertise
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1-3
copy editors [contract basis until we
are successful enough to employ editors]
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2
data entry assistants [contract basis,
same as above]
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The
means to search for / hire partners and
staff as needed, based on the ability to
pay our way through our own success
Using this approach, we would concentrate on
one subweb at a time, hire or recruit and
train the necessary staff. This
scenario would be particularly useful if we
are looking for partners to buy into each
subweb.
Under these conditions, I would recommend
starting with the LLR, then LAL, followed by
the PDD, ESC, and DTCII, in this order.
The first two will provide a focal point
that will be the most immediately likely to
pull in public funding and support.
The PDD needs to be implemented early rather
than later into the overall development
plans. The ESC and DTCII are both
membership subwebs, which should be
financially strengthening almost from their
beginning, but they require the
informational and educational backbone of
the LLR and LAL to set up the proper context
for making them understandable and naturally
sought after.
The decision for when to begin each
succeeding subweb can be contingent upon any
number of variables [completion of previous
subweb, amount of funding being pulled in by
the previous subweb/s; partnering agreements
for each subweb as that naturally unfolds,
if it is to evolve with individual partners,
etc.]
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The
Prospectus [main page]
The
Precis / The Development Plan
[Prospectus, Part 5]
Partnership,
Funding & Collaboration [main
page]
A.
Big-picture partnership articles:
B.
More detailed, related partnership articles:
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If
you want further information or would like to discuss partnering or
funding possibilities, please contact me.
Rachael Rocamora
PLEASE
NOTE, AS OF MAY 5, 2009, I WILL BE MOVING
BUT
DO NOT YET HAVE A FORWARDING ADDRESS.
For
the time being,
PLEASE
CONTACT ME VIA EMAIL:
rachaelrocamora@gmail.com
Thank
you.
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