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Your membership is essential to the success of ENTRENET – but consider that ENTRENET can also be essential to your success.

 ENTRENET employs the most current tools available on the Internet today. Taking advantage of these tools gives you a worldwide presence in your field. Consider that the recent American election was largely won on the Internet. Exploiting the tools enabled Obama’s campaign to raise small amounts of money from tens of millions of ordinary people resulting in one of the richest campaigns in history! The strong Internet exchange with the common person allowed iterative debates and it spoke directly to the youth of America via their own medium. Obama’s campaign gave the power to the people.

 As a researcher/educator/practitioner – you are making significant contributions to the growing field of entrepreneurship, but your work may still be limited to a local audience or the select audiences that read the journals in which you publish.

 In your busy life you are confronted, maybe even bombarded, with the new mediums on the Internet but you may not know how to clear the clutter and use these mediums to your best advantage.

 The ENTRENET platform enables you to learn and adapt the latest technologies into your practice. By doing so, your work extends beyond the walls of your institute and the pages of your journals. By participating in ENTRENET you are conditioned to use:

1. THE BLOGOSPHERE:When you blog on ENTRENET, your rant not only reverberates throughout the entrepreneurship community but it shows up in the major search engines like Google. If you’re not already adept, we show you how to become a blogger.

2. PROJECT COMMUNITIES:You can now create your own online working community by inviting in your students and/or colleagues and enabling the use of the same tools available in the greater ENTRENET community. You can dialogue, post blogs, download pertinent documents into a Library, share visual information; photos and videos, and generally keep everyone in your project active and connected. We show you how to start and maintain your project community.

3. SHARE YOUR WORK:  By creating a Project Community you are sharing your ideas with the world. And you have access – via ENTRENET – to all the great projects that are underway. As a practitioner, you don’t want to re-invent the wheel when you’re starting new programs. Learn from the experiences of your colleagues; build on the strengths and avoid the pitfalls.

4. GET ON TO YOU TUBE:You can create a video with almost any digital camera or you can employ the services of a videographer. Your video may be an extended snapshot or a formal presentation. Regardless, in our world, videos are a powerful medium. We show you how to imbed your video onto You Tube where it’s automatically sized for a fast download. From there you can import it back into your blog, your classroom/project community – and you become a player on You Tube.

5. REACH YOUR STUDENTS:In this day and age of Facebook and social networking, students expect more from you than textbooks and Power Point presentations. You join the league of innovative educators who know how to leverage their students to contribute materials to the learning experience e.g. have students imbed the best You Tube videos on e’ship into your classroom community.

6. JOIN THE WIKI WORLD:Wikipedia has eclipsed every other encyclopedia in the world. We live in an era where knowledge sharing on the Internet is taking on new dimensions. Corporations, researchers, professionals everywhere are relying on the power of mass collaboration on the Internet to advance their work. Similarly ENTRENET is a leading edge wiki community that builds its content and value from its members.

Most of all, you join the wave of intellectuals who are opting to share their knowledge with the world in a movement called Open Source Education. MIT led the way. Harvard and Stanford are among some of the best universities in the world than now ascribe to the practice of posting all of their courseware online for free for borderless benefits. Washing away are the days of proprietary information and competition among post secondary institutions.

ENTRENET allows you to embrace this new world of online collaboration and technology. We welcome you to this dynamic leading edge community where everyone has an equal opportunity to showcase their work and access the accumulated knowledge of your peers. It seems fitting that this revolutionary new concept within the world of academia is founded within the discipline of entrepreneurship.