After the Annual December RoundHotTub Discussion if we take the GO2 main page in the direction more of a blog and content page and not a true 'company' looking for business for the beginning. (allow the business to arrive organically from people showing interest in our postings) I would like to talk about the structure of GO2. I envision all of us as the Board of Directors making up the formal business side. Then imagine we are all also 'fellows' (to the content/blog), we can then invite other people who we might think have great insight to be 'contributers' to the blog. If they are worthy of the status they will become 'fellows' as well. (Reference the Center for American Progress) Eventually we can have staff as well (ie Internet Programmer) and when we turn into a full grown business we can have divisions for each business sector (ie GO2 Real Estate...etc.) I'm going to work on some structural diagrams this week...
Also if we start the GO2 Foundation I think it will be easy, all of us on the board.
(I'm writing this with 'The Rock' music playing from the credits, needless to say inspired to kick ass right now)
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Definitely sounds like a good idea to set the structure down. Maybe help delineate who is going to be helping with what.
One thing I would like to add to this, is for everyone to check out Google Apps.
It is a program that ties together gmail, calander, docs, and other google applications.
We can create our own domain name, which we all need to decide on and tie our emails to other personal, business email addresses.
This can act as a portal for GO2, creating a homepage, calanders, and documents for GO2.
Its only 50 bucks a year, for premeir per account. It is free for basic version. But for only 50 bucks a year to lock down the email addresses for GO2 and the website as well as a portal for our company is kind of a sweet deal.
This is all based on the idea of cloud computing. Which is the opposite of how traditional business run there companies. Usually a company will host the website themselves on a dedicated server, or outsource the hosting to another co-location data center.
Which means we would have to find a host for our website, pay for x amount of space to run it and for x amount of traffic.
In contrast, with cloud computing such as Google Apps. They host our content, emails, documents, portal, possible even our website. We simply pay a fee to use their services. This means way less expense on hardware for us, and tons of storage for future expansion.
Pretty much what I want to get across, is that we have an opportunity to build a company in an entirely new greener way.
I know that was a lot, but I have been having a lot of ideas flowing now. 2009 is going to be a good year for us!
Couple more things.
Check this video out, good quick 2 min intro to Google Apps.
Intro Google App Video
There is an 18 minute in depth video that can explain better, if anyone is interested.
In-Depth Google App Video
Ya'll give me an okay, and I will go ahead and pay and start locking some domain names down and working on the interface for the portal.
Two things we need to decide to move forward.
Speculative domain name?? (Schrieber did you already purchase one?)
Email address??
@go2.com
@groupone2.com
Lets get the ball rolling fellas.
is this domain(s) for the co. website or the blog we are hoping to start? If it's the blog i think we decided it should have a seperate name than go2, but on the page go2 will be listed as the creator or something. It would be good to keep it away from groupone2.com/blog/ is my point
My point is that we should use it above and beyond the blog. Its an easy place to start organizing a company and organizing their ideas, documents, websites, emails, blogs, etc.
We could technically have one for group one 2 and one for the blog we want to create.
I had it more in mind for GO2 as a way we can start just organizing and sharing things. A good tool to use to start to build the blog.
Was everyone able to see the document I shared a month or so ago via Google Docs? That's a good example of how we could use what BCole is talking about.
i would say just one for go2 will work fine, i meant the domain name for the actualy website or blog. sorry for the confusion. And yes i still have that google doc. in my folder.
I think the google grouping idea is pretty good as well and yes, I can see the .doc Brooks.
the google shit is the shit, im in for paying it will be a great intranet for us to coordinate on and also track our website hits.
we do own the domain through godaddy
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