We have some creative ideas about how to evolve the Village Chandler Marketplace. It is not enough to simply create and support a decentralized and distributed supply chain business web if you want to have a successful microenterprise network. We need to market and sell differently, too.At Sohodojo, we've beening working on a number of BIG IDEAS for small business. Among them, we've written a lot about story-driven, game-oriented alternative marketplaces. We need markets based on 'Who, How and Why' rather than the traditional markets based on 'How much and Where'.If you would like more information about the design idease behind the e-commerce engine we will be developing to support the Village Chandler Marketplace, please read the following:
- We deconstruct Tapscott, Ticoll and Lowy's Business Web taxonomy to derive initial functional requirements for story-driven, game-oriented Small Is Good commerce in The Yin-yang of e-Commerce Engines.
- Two Small Is Good Business Webs Compared takes a feature-wise look at Squirrelfeeders.com and 3RBuilders.Net, two demonstration business webs under development at Sohodojo.
- Nanocorps in the Dream Society: How Small Is Good Business Webs Will Compete in the Story-driven Marketplaces of the 21st Century examines the hypotheses of world-class futurist, Rolf Jensen, to better understand the unique competitive advantage that nanocorps and our Small Is Good Business Webs bring to the emerging imagination-based, story-driven marketplaces of what Jensen calls the Dream Society.
- Shamrocks and Nanocorps: Bridging the Digital Divide with Small Is Good Business Webs presents a strategy for using Small Is Good organization dynamics to open up a new category of entrepreneurial opportunity in the U.S. Empowerment Zones and Enterprise Communities. Learn how Charles Handy's 'Shamrock' organization model plays a part in shaping the Small Is Good Business Webs which can bridge the Digital Divide.
- No list of our business webs interest would be complete without referencing our debt to Tapscott, Ticol and Lowy's excellent book, Digital Capital: Harnessing the Power of Business Webs.
- And have you read David Gelernter's Mirror Worlds? This is arguably the most inspiring 'thought book' about the Internet and business webs although it is not intended to be about either one. A must-read for any aspiring business web developer.