Business, As Usual, Certainly Is Dead and due in no little part to venues such as this one. The internet, as hard as this may seem to fathom, is just barely getting started. The term infancy simply does not do it justice.

That said, I have a question to ask. Where is the best place, within TeeBeeDee to seek partners? Not only is it true that no man, or woman for that matter, is an island- Quite the opposite is true. Anything meaningful that was ever really accomplished was accomplished by a team.

Singulus, I'm in that Parade of the Internet being in it's infancy. Cheers to that notion. As a society, a race of beings, we're still trying to figure out how we can best use it. I do recognize social networking as a huge surge, a realization of the promise of democratization (not for small business) for "the people".

(Gordon - couldn't we have a new thread "business books" and then sub off that?)

Getting Things Done - by David Allen

Anybody read/heard the book or into that method? I have the abridged version on CD and am on disc 2.

" I'm still trying to find a place where we can have a conversation about forming a partnership, a 'collaboration' and actually building a business online ...

<it>Tell me more about your idea of seeking partners to collaborate with on a new business. Do you have a particular business in mind, or are you looking for an open discussion with other members to come up with a new business idea?</it>

One of the biggest issues on the internet today is this thing being labeled 'monetization'- Earning money on the internet. You hear more and more each day, every twenty minutes about it. I've even noticed a couple of pundits trying to coin new terms i.e. 'contentization' < ggg >.

One of the first things that happened of course was the old bosses attempting to maintain the status quo, control of the marketplace, but even they are baffled.

One thing that's certain is that when the problem is solved, it will be we who solve it.

My thoughts turn to the new media. Making our own 'movies', In this case short-subjects. A return to the original values of motion pictures. Writing our own screen plays, novels, short-stories. Designing and publishing our own eMags, eBooks, ePapers, eDocuments et al.

Reinventing the marketplace if you will. And, quite frankly I can't think of a better place to start.

I must have this conversation a dozen times a week with my peers. " What we are looking for just isn't out there for us."

So why don't we do it ourselves, have a ball doing it, and supplement our incomes in the process?

Yes, Mavericks at Work is the title of a book.

Tell me more about your idea of seeking partners to collaborate with on a new business. Do you have a particular business in mind, or are you looking for an open discussion with other members to come up with a new business idea?

One thought--you might start your own Work discussion group and personally invite a number of members to join in.

Re: Gordon's comments on your group. Please invite me.

To Singulus

I agree with you that it's not out there (what we want from the media). I really would like to hear more about your ideas on eBooks,eMags ect. We can discuss it here using member comments or if you like we can communicate using TeeBeeDee's email system.(My profile is posted on this site.)