DKGnetwork is Coming!

While I am writing this blog, the headquarters staff is meeting to discuss the process and implementation timelines for DKGnetwork.org. The Internet would be a place, according to Tim Berners-Lee in 1989, where we could all meet and read and write. We have come a long way in the past twenty years in our abilities to use the Internet for meeting and writing. I think our first uses were to look up information, to read. Now, with the implementation of social networks, using Web 2.0 tools, we are able to meet and read and write.

Linda Ellers writes in the November/December News that a social network uses the web to connect like-minded groups together without regard to time or place. That is exactly what I anticipate happening with the implementation of DKGnetwork.org. The program committees met this past weekend and everyone went home with things to write, revise, and review. In January, committees will be able to form their own community group to utilize for some of their committee work. The ad hoc online leadership committee has already made excellent use of this new technology as they have conducted the work of their committees. You may wish to check out their committee page to discover some of the latest technology tools available.

We will need a Beta group to test the DKGnetwork.org when we have it close to final form. If you are a social network user and would like to be a part of this Beta group email me at Carolyn@rants.net.

When I attended the Missouri State Organization convention last spring they had a young woman, Anne Marie Rhodes, who spoke to us about Culture Waves--Trends for the Future. She connected the new Web 2.0 trends with Mazlow's hierarchies and we all could relate to them. She will be one of our presenters in Spokane.

So get ready for changes that will move the Society forward. We are on a roll! We hope to have a Cyber Cafe at the Convention Center in Spokane for your use. Be there as we celebrate the official launching of the DKGnetwork.

Carolyn