AERDO Presentation

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AERDO Presentation

• 19 October 2003
• Bill Bowers
• Vertical Symmetry Digital Solutions

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Personal Backgroud

• Bill Bowers CES Chief Executive Servant
• Co-founder former CTO of Crosswalk.com (NASDAQ
  AMEN)
• 22 years of experience in Information Technology
  Design
• 1 Year as Interim Director of Application
  Development for American Bible Society
  Interactive
• 7 Years leading design and development of
  crosswalk.com
• 15 Years Central Intelligence Agency
• Chief of Architecture and Engineering Branch for
  the Directorate of Intelligence
• B.S. Engineering from VA Tech 1983
• Mr. Bowers serves on the Board of Directors of
  two non-profit, Christian ministries that provide
  high technology services to mission organizations
  
• Global Digital Solutions www.globaldigitalsolution
  s.com
• ILS international www.ilsinternational.net
• Elder, small group leader, and Missions Support
  Team at Chantilly Bible Church

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Our Products and Services

• Individual Websites built on our Life Servant
  Technology
• Standard (setup plus monthly fee)
• Custom (design fees plus monthly fee)
• Private Label Networks
• Standard
• Custom (Templates, content items, services, etc.)
• Custom Development

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Life Servant

• Is a system for managing and empowering the
  complex relationships that exist within and
  between organizations.
• It is focused supporting both the formal and
  informal communication paths within an org.
• It is designed to be organic, growing and
  changing to reflect the dynamic nature of
  ministry and business today

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Driving Beliefs

• Empowering people to serve one another
  strengthens everyone
• The Network Principle
• Every node that is added to a system increases
  the value of every other node in the network.
  (Example the Fax network)
• Corollary
• Every interaction by an individual with a site in
  the network should increase the value of the
  network to every other user

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Design Objectives

• Create a system that
• Can be used by non-technical end-users
• Can distribute the work load among various
  participants
• Provides high-end corporate features to consumers
• Provides Professional Look and Feel to the users
  end product
• Allows for updating from a web browser
• Provides for a quick start up with minimal system
  knowledge
• Provides a full featured Content Management
  System (CMS)
• Allows an editor to share content with other
  sites
• Provides a way to schedule when content appears
  on pages
• Implements one-to-one marketing principles
• Allows for private areas of the site and can
  apply security to every item
• Allows for easy expansion
• Separates content from presentation

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Communication Flow for a Typical Web Site
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Limitations of these systems

• Inefficiencies due to Webmaster bottleneck
• Reflects only one aspect of an organizations
  relationships (inside to public)
• Fundamentally one-way only communication
• Separated from internal communications

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The AERDO.net Vision

• Provides for a variety of different types of
  Websites serving the AERDO community
• AERDO.org main site
• Theme/Track sites
• Member sites
• Convergent Assemblies sites
• Project sites

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AERDO.net will bea collection of
related websites each customized to the
personality of the entity it represents yet
interconnected as a whole.
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AERDO.net is about relationships
It starts with the members by providing
each entity with their own mini-website
For coordinating their activities,
communicating with each other,
expressing themselves to the
other member organizations.
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Every AERDO.net site is provided with the
tools to easily share ideas, best
practices, or any resource
with other members.
Site to Site Content Sharing
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AERDO Member Websites
AERDO.net provides Member websites to each
AERDO organization to facilitate their
communication to their prayer and financial
partners and to friends of their ministry.
These sites also provide the capability to
push content into other sites
that wish to receive it.
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Member and Theme Sites

• Provide customized starter sites for quick
  startup
• Provide regular updates through content sharing
  to sister sites to the sites of those they serve
• Increase communication with other member orgs
  working within their region or area of interest
  with private discussion boards

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Current Focus

• Convert over the Main AERDO Website
• Implement on LifeServants Content Management
  System
• Design multiple appropriate templates and image
  themes
• Prototype the Theme / Track Sites
• Agriculture/Food
• Disaster/Relief
• HIV/AIDS
• Micro Enterprise Development
• Shelter/Housing/ Infrastructure
• Children
• Prototype a Mini-Member Site
• Used for Publishing to other member sites
• Used as an Add-on to Members Main Web Site

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Peer Information Exchange   

• Communication with their peers is accomplished
  via content sharing between any member site

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AERDO.net is designed
to strengthen the
relationships of those
ministering and those
being ministered to.
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Life Servant Technology