''This is a work in progress.''

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== WhoWeAre ==
=== Vision ===
People visit AboutUs '''before''' they go to a website because our clear, consistent guide saves them time in understanding the business.

=== Mission ===
To create a trustworthy guide that artfully summarizes every organization on the internet and rewards the reader in their first glance.

=== Values ===
We work together in a way that brings out the best in us and fosters a shared spirit of collaboration.  We encourage each contributor to learn and teach the many [[values]] that our community is built upon.

=== Purpose of this Document ===
This document describes the vision and mission we've chosen and the [[values]] that we want community members to consider while on the site.  We've condensed our myriad [[Values]] around a small core that we are building into our software and want to project into our community. This focus will help newcomers identify the important bits of [[AboutUs]] culture quickly and keep them close at hand.  We continue to celebrate and honor the individual contribution as the fundamental building block of our site and our vision, mission and values are all in support of these individual contributions. We've tried to use evocative language that is easily understood by folks who aren't yet familiar with [[AboutUs.org]].  Please feel warmly welcomed to help us improve this articulation of [[WhoWeAre]].

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==Suggestion==

Suggestion:

Special consensus building poll on the two Vision Alternatives:

Reason:

A vision should move the hearts of the community members.
A ''"clear consistent guide"'' makes Aboutus a mere database, that could be easily topped by other players like Google, who has much more information already at hand, and also a superior technology and manpower to offer such a guide, if they want to do it.

As soon as Google offers such a guide, integrating it into GoogleEarth, then Google is light years ahead of Aboutus and will attract visitors to websites, immediately ''"'''before''' they go to a website"'', even without the need for a vision. Google only needs to integrate a special filter into their search-engine, say: "site-description".
Besides that, Google delivers also the additional information, if a website "may harm your computer". Such a Google guide with this additional information is much more valuable.

On the other hand, a community that finds in Aboutus an ideal platform for starting collaboration with millions of website companies, organizations and individuals is imho much more inspiring and stimulating, at the same time building on the merits, Aboutus has already accumulated in its business-ethics (as expressed in its [[values]] and infrastructure).

* Currently Google uses wiki technology only for their internal staff.
But they easily could wikify and commerce-enable their millions of online notebooks and GoogleApps for [[CreatingAndSharingWealth]] to attract all those wikizens, who want to work (and even have food on their table).

* Aboutus is built on wiki culture as an open process.
* Google is not (yet) an open wiki culture.
* Aboutus has currently in his staff the inventor of wiki: [[WardCunningham]] and is full of open wiki culture.

If Aboutus doesn't appreciate the work of friendly and constructive wiki community members, integrating them into their vision, it might be possible, Google will find better ways to integrate their collaborative work into GoogleCheck supported community work, that has a real pay-out and consequently an implied brain-drain away from Aboutus.

A mere catalogue "vision" misses the point imho.
[[User:Fridemar|fridemar]] 15:45, 2 July 2008 (PDT)

== Partial recovery of an earlier state of this page: ==

=== Who we are ===
''Can we boil it down to three words?''

* Helping People Prosper
* Create Share Wealth
* Collect Connect Collaborate
* [[CreateConnectCollaborate]]
* Summary of Websites

Somebody asked the above question and other peers invested time and even money to give answers. An active community member invested even hundreds
of hours for unpaid community work. Here is a chance to demonstrate, how
such work could be honored by compensation via [[ExtremeOpenBusiness]].
These ideas may currently be shocking, as until now most wiki communities are flawed by the [[http://www.google.com/search?q=StayPoor+meme Google:StayPoor+Meme]]. Currently only the staff members have a payout for their work, not
(yet) the active community members.

The Google management has recognized the potential of free floating community intelligence and collaboration and offers numerous incentives to employ millions of people (e.g. to make photographs, covering the earth, or letting them blog with a modest revenue-sharing of the advertisers market.)
Good bye Aboutus, if you don't know to appreciate and attract the free floating intelligence on the globe.

So a built in revenue sharing or other incentives should be part of the identity of Aboutus, to avoid [[Meatball:GhostTowns]] in the future.
The author hopes, that this provoking posting in the spirit of [[BeBold]], helps to grow awareness. [[User:Fridemar|fridemar]] 14:55, 3 July 2008 (PDT)


==[[BiLinks]]==
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* [[Meatball:AboutusOrg]]
* [[Wiki:AboutusOrg]]