1. Purposes
This bulletin modifies previous public statements, somewhat, uttered before circumstances changed as they have -- as these changes impact the development of the Civic Mentor and related constructs.
To keep informed, those who are interested in the Civic Mentor Project (CMP), as to general direction and advances (and challenges). (And, I find I need these little "pep talks.")
To re-inforce the expressed full scope of the project -- the totality of human existence.
To help increase, as public understanding widens and deepens, public readiness to appreciate, accept, and participate in development and application of the finished products and services -- and should require less energy on the indoctrination and training of volunteer and hired teams -- for longer-term work -- and faster practical end-user adaptation and adoption.
To help me lock-in my serious and public commitment to action and to assist system-building administration. Both considered to be essential to ultimate success.
2. Overview
For now, I am relying, chiefly, on bulletin-board (blogs) to help define and present the "seeds" of permanent web-objects, logically categorize their contents; and populate them with practical ideas and other information and data -- more efficiently -- WHILE simultaneously placing any useful information in public reach, sooner rather than later.
Here is the overall landscape for this project, as it presently appears.
Here is the overall landscape for this project, as it presently appears.
3. ACTIVE BLOGS/BULLETIN BOARDS (BB)-- PUBLISHED TO DATE
FLESHING-OUT THE BB's: I have begun populating them with dynamic and static information -- to depend, primarily, on automation -- for example, via direct email-subscriptions from the sources directly to the bulletin boards. That should help celebrate and spread the contributions of increasing numbers of fellow humans and keep them visible, to ease your recall and use of them, till they become part of habitual routines (if that's in the cards) -- and until migrated to more intuitive, permanent systems.
I expect to continue to use major revision-numbers in the title-line of this report (a change-accumulator) to signal to you significant changes.
4. ACTIVE WEB-OBJECTS -- PRIORITIES
As Blogs (and other significant web-objects) develop, they will be moved to this category and hyper-linked to this section.
POPULATING THE BB's WITH AUTOMATIC INFORMATION should become apparent within a few days (but my predictive powers are not yet reliable). Copy-right concerns will have to be managed and may result in hyperlinks to them, rather than pulling them onto the BB's as actual specimens.
Civic (Public) Mentors are publicly-oriented;
Personal Mentors are inward-looking:
- Civic Mentor / National-Level / Economic / The Small Business Place
- Civic Mentor / City-Level / Pittsburg, CA
- Civic Mentor / City-Level / Pittsburg, CA / Police Services
- Civic Mentor.Net -- the main portal into the "Mentor/ELMS Electronic Universe" -- very rudimentary, for now -- to mature as the project matures.
5. VERY NEXT SUB-PROJECTS (not yet completed and activated)
a. IMMEDIATE NEXT PRIORITIES -- this is the general order of work, but simultaneity is a marked and most fortunate tendency -- for the modules must each be at least partially built, pretty much at the same time, due to the tight interdependencies. Each level suggests considerations for all the rest -- and the details must be captured, blended and balanced, when recognized:
- Civic Mentor / Neighborhood-Level -- this is one absolute "linch-pin" at one end of the Civic Mentor spectrum. The second linch-pin at the other end of that spectrum is the National-Level. Both are essential to logical consistency throughout the entire scope of the project, as far as a comprehensive nationally-scoped social-strategy is concerned.
- Civic Mentor / National-Level
- Civic Mentor / National-Level / Economic / The Work Place
- Civic Mentor / County-Level / CA / Contra Costa County
- Civic Mentor / Areal-Level / CA / San Francisco Bay Area
- Civic Mentor / State Level / CA / California
b. UNDER EARLY DEVELOPMENT -- NOT YET PUBLISHED
- Personal Mentor / Individual-Level -- to contain, among other things, a personal "control panel" to help conveniently manipulate all the other mentors from an intimate standpoint.
- Personal Mentor / Family-Level
- Personal Mentor / Household-Level
- Missing Link -- it seems to me that an additional level belongs here -- not sure -- has to be determined as the project dictates.
- Civic Mentor / Global-Level
- Civic Mentor / Universal-Level
- Civic Mentor / Other States, Areas, Counties, Cities, Unincorporated Communities -- brought forth on a continuing basis as opportunity can be created
- Civic Mentor / Humankind -- summarizing, empowering, and over-arching all the rest
- Institute the Parent Corporation -- "The Mentor Enterprises / ELMS" (c. 2016)
David Nelson
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