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RE: What business are you in ?
The neurological biochemical model of the nervous system, information and response, is to foster a dynamic interaction within a changing environment. To see what you need to see, to hear what you need to hear, to feel what you need to feel and react quickly.
The Internet mass communications business is just that, the electrical and chemical transmitters for global business and social interactions. How can it help everyone be more effective at doing what they do and do what they have never even dreamed of doing.
I was struck by the idea that every company has a style fixed where it was founded.
The railroads did not move into trucks or airplanes because they did not define themselves as in the transportation business but as organizations that ran railroads.
They carry their 19'th century management climate into the present. IBM has the flavor of the 1950's, Mr. Watson Sr. didn't want to do computers, just provide office machines, Jr. was allowed to try. Office products and sales/service continued to dominate IBM. Microsoft, Netscape, G.E., NBC, AT&T, the cable companies, the media giants, Time/Warner, McGraw Hill group, don't really know what business they are in and for good reason. It is more than doing what we now do better, stronger, higher and faster but do new things we have never done before.
Forbearance is required. As in TWA 800 case, with the stock market's up and downs, there is no quick easy answer.
The "media" thrives on quick, simple answers to complex problems. Every day they tell us why the market moved - and it's all BS, no one knows, there is not a simple answer, only there were more buyers than sellers or the other way around. Well, computer hardware, software, Internet communications, content, office operations, entertainment and news, ( which mushed together some time ago - so the Olympus and soap operas blend together in a mindless soup ), information, services such as travel, banking, buy and selling, manufacturing and distribution, education and training are all mushed together into a new SYNERGY.
SYNERGY is where everyone ( well almost everyone wins ). Ruth Benedict's concept was of societies that made participation worth while for most people, rather than the " powers to be" hedging it all and setting the rules to benefit themselves. Sharing, empathy, honest, liberty, equality, in the division of the spoils are functional attitudes vs. greed, uncaring, anti-social, individualist, slavery, domination etc.
The business you are in is SYNERGY, working with others to get the job done, the computer/telecommunications/Internet business is going to make that faster and let you do new things not done before.
The neurological biochemical model of the nervous system, information and response, is to foster a dynamic interaction within a changing environment. To see what you need to see, to hear what you need to hear, to feel what you need to feel and react quickly.
The Internet mass communications business is just that, a chemical transmitters for global business. How can it help everyone be more effective at doing what they do.
Microsoft Network is where it should be, finally.
They have 28,800 lines in most places and the ISDN line is the same cost as a time unlimited 28.8 connection. NOW everything connects to everything. MS is on the way to becoming a communications company with NBC - G.E. - and a wired network.
The NETMEETING is a killer application. It's phone, chat, ftp, flip chart, and will tie to OFFICE 97 - also get KEYVIEW for ease of using all kinds of formats.
The files are on the synergy.trevista.com site and you can get a password by calling me.
Enabling Real-Time, Multimedia Communication over the Internet
Updated: July 16, 1996
FROM MS
The Microsoft® ActiveX(TM) Conferencing platform consists of a suite of technologies that enable real-time, multiparty, multimedia communication over the Internet. In effect, these technologies and the associated interfaces turn each and every PC into a new kind of highly programmable and extensible telephone--a multimedia telephone capable not only of audio communication, but video and data communication as well.
For more information on <a href="http://207.68.137.7/intdev/msconf/">
Microsoft ActiveX conferencing</a>, please see the Web pages below.
ActiveX Conferencing, in a nutshell
We've provided an overview of the Microsoft ActiveX Conferencing platform, user scenarios, and releases.
ActiveX Conferencing SDK
Beta 2 now available!
The ActiveX Conferencing Software Development Kit (SDK) provides thirteen functions for adding conferencing support to your application. Version 1.0 Beta 2 of the SDK is now available for downloading from this site. Please note that you need to install the Microsoft NetMeeting(TM) 1.0 (Beta 2) application (see below) to use the SDK.
I found I had to reload windows 95 from the CD to get SDX install correctly but now it seems fine.
TAKE THE TOUR which I up date every day.
http://pages.prodigy.net/pflaump/<a href="synergy/tour.htm
Get Microsoft NETMEETING below and install - reboot and when it opens use call , web directory, and I will have Pflaump@wiredbrain.com as a server ready for you.
THIS ONE REALLY WORKS !!!! <P>
NEWS HOT FLASH: IE3 BETA, international standards - Intel, MS, et al Internet phone It works like pc-anywhere in that you can turn control over - be careful in shared resources.
Don't just "chat" online - call a meeting!
Want an Internet telephone tool that combines:
voice and data communications real-time application sharing file transfer full-featured whiteboard, and text-based chat?
I have to say MS Internet Explorer with add ons is going better and faster than Netscape! You will need Internet Explorer 3.0 b and the Internet Connection upgrade at some time.
They are all on the site. My explorer works faster than Netscape but the add ons such as VDO don't connect.
The editor doesn't work on either one but what do you expect ?
http://www.microsoft.com/devnews/netmeet.htm
NETMEETING FROM MS Developers network ( background) then
http://www.microsoft.com/ie/ie3/netmtg.htm to down load
The standard phone system with AS ( a- synonymous system )
may change everything AGAIN
http://www.net2phone.com
The TOUR gives an idea of the methods we want to use in building the VIRTUAL CLASSROOM.
The system could be rented as the training
facilities listed below (hocf.htm is a list of corporate universities ) as well as to schools, colleges, and Universities around the world. It is unreasonable to expect every
institution to build it's own electric classroom when rented space can be more up-to-date and have the interactive features needed.
Copies of the SYNERGY JOURNAL sent by request: Pflaump@wiredbrain.com
SYNERGY-NET on
Peter E. Pflaum Ph.D. , Headmaster GLOBAL_VILLAGE_SCHOOLHOUSE
225 Robinson Road, New Smyrna Beach, FL 32169-2176 (904) 428-9609
Pflaump@wiredbrain.com