E-Commerce

Training for Essential Skills Development and Entry-Level E-commerce

Resources selected for CTC VISTAS are at http://lone-eagles.com/ctcvista.htm

A Seven Successive Skills Model
http://lone-eagles.com/essential-skills.htm
Briefly, as Email skills are developed, citizens become more connected to the community. As searching skills are developed citizens gain the ability to gather resources of benefit to themselves and the community. As basic web-authoring skills are developed, citizens gain the ability to share these resources with the community in a convenient public manner. As mentoring skills are developed, citizens gain the understanding of how to combine email, searching, and web-authoring skills to share knowledge effectively to make a real difference in the lives of others. As value is demonstrated, the entrepreneurial potential of instructional entrepreneurship, as well as opportunities for traditional Ecommerce, will become dramatically clear. Learning to record cultural wisdom via multimedia will serve to preserve it for future generations and will allow it to be shared as appropriate. Finally, leadership and innovation skills will create role models for productive social behavior and creativity to assure future survival in a changing world.

Seven Essential Survival Skills
1. Email Skills as Essential for Electronic Citizenship
2. Search Engine Skills as Essential for Self-directed Internet Learning
3. Web Self-publishing Skills as Essential for Local and Global Ecommerce and Expression
4. Mentoring and Teaching Skills as Essential for Sharing Knowledge in Your Community
5. Entrepreneurship Skills as Essential for Individual, Family, and Community Sustainability
6. Cultural Preservation and Expression Skills as Essential for using technology to preserve the knowledge of our elders and culture for future generations.
7. Leadership and Innovation Skills as Essential for Becoming a Role Model for Your Community for Adapting to Change.

Easy E-commerce Web-Raisings
A brief example community event:
Sept. 22nd, 2005, in a community of 200 (Winnett, MT) a community web-raiser event was held, and after a 1-1/2 hour presentation... 30 adult attendees created a beginning community website with 16 free ecommerce sites...in only 45 minutes. (At tripod.com) After this initial ecommerce awareness event everyone can now continue to develop their own free password-protected ecommerce web sites. The community website is http://winnett-webraiser.tripod.com The tripod tutorial is at the end of the Ecommerce successes webtour at http://lone-eagles.com/pcna1.htm

Suggested next steps would be to engage citizens in online learning via online lessons designed for rural citizens that have never taken an online class before. “A Beginners Guide to Profiting from the Internet” http://lone-eagles.com/ecom.htm Ten two-hour lessons provide a hands-on overview of what’s working for others like them with Ebay, Ecommerce, and Telework. The only skills necessary for these lessons are “point and click.” The first lesson lists multiple other online ecommerce courses to choose from.

Lone Eagle Entry-Level E-commerce Resources
http://lone-eagles.com/future-proofing.htm Extensive resources.

Techsoup, everything you need to know about Web 2.0 http://www.techsoup.org/toolkits/web2/

Additional Lone Eagle Curriculum for Collaborative Skills and Web Authoring
http://lone-eagles.com/webdev.htm
http://lone-eagles.com/collab.htm
http://lone-eagles.com/curr4.htm
http://lone-eagles.com/articles/tencollab.htm
http://lone-eagles.com/teacherstools.htm