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Michael Simmons
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Partnering with TIG
August 21, 2003 - 11:46 AM
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What criteria does TIG use to find and evaluate partners? I'm very well connected with youth entrepreneur associations in the US and would love to make connections.
In addition, I am a student starting a publishing company (http://www.successmanifesto.com) that will publish a series of self-development books targeted at youth and written by successful youth on topics such as entrepreneurship, health, scholarships, etc. I think TIG is a great community and I would love to meaningfully engage members as authors and readers. What would be the best way to reach out to authors/readers through TIG in a mutually beneficially way? Can YouthBiz help jumpstart members member companies by helping them market their products/needs to the community?
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PARTNERING
August 22, 2003 - 03:34 AM
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Dear Michaeldsimmons,
There are many ways to reach out the people across the world. TIG is one of them. I am sure you can find some good people both for writing and marketing.
As far as the matter of writing is concerned, I can help you in that. I myself can contributing on health issues and my expertise is on HIV/AIDS. I am also running a project and an online training on HIV/AIDS.
Tell me what do you feel on this?
Best regards,
Farhad Ali
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Re: Partnering with TIG
August 22, 2003 - 07:36 AM
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Michael,
I'm in charge of the TIG YouthBiz initiative. There are a number of great things that we can do - we are currently seeking funding from partners to get it going. In the meantime we are slowly building it with our own resources.
There are a number things you can do to create awareness. First on your own TIG Profile you can put information about your company and book. Second you can continue to post messages in the discussion boards. Third you can post updates about yourself, your company, and any thoughts you have. Fourth, you can write an article in the Business & Entrepreneurship category which will appear for people to read. Fifth, you can post any events that you know of or ar involved in.
You can search the member database for people who might fit your criteria of interest. You can also add your company into the organizations database - this will show up on the YouthBiz homepage. Finally you can post a project around connecting young authors just as you became a member of the YouthBiz project.
There are already a number of opportunities out there for you - I look forward to any comments or suggestions you have for how to improve the system as well!
Evan.
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Re: Partnering with TIG
August 22, 2003 - 09:51 AM
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Evan,
Thanks for the advice.
Have you approached foundations such at http://www.emkf.org/, http://www.colemanfoundation.org/, or http://edwardlowe.org? These are some larger ones in the US that support youth entrepreneurship.
As for posting updates, I already have a blog at http://successmanifesto.com/michael/. And I'm not interested in maintaining two blogs. I emailed the TIG web team about making it possible to syndicate external blogs into TIG profiles.
I hadn't thought about the project idea! Good one. The two issues with that is that I would lose my company's branding and member information could be shared.
- Would it be possible to create a project that is co-branded with my company.
- Is it possible to integrate the TIG back-end into my back-end so that people from TIG who sign up for the project sign up for my site and people who sign up for the project through my site become TIG members?
If done right, that seems like it could be very mutually beneficial.
Michael Simmons, Author
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How to Create a Life of
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Get my updates through my blog at
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Re: Partnering with TIG
August 22, 2003 - 11:28 AM
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Michael,
We haven't approached them at this point because we don't have any contacts there. If you have someone who you could suggest, that would be fantastic!
Your integration ideas are really great - the only concern at this point is funding. We can do it, but until we get more money for the project, we cannot deviate from our core plan. We'd be happy to work with you towards meeting your goal and I look forward to your suggestions!
Evan.
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Re: Partnering with TIG
August 22, 2003 - 11:58 AM
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First let me say that your work sounds really good. You sound like you know what you are doing and what your direction is, which is much better than many people 
Originally posted by michaeldsimmons
As for posting updates, I already have a blog at http://successmanifesto.com/michael/. And I'm not interested in maintaining two blogs. I emailed the TIG web team about making it possible to syndicate external blogs into TIG profiles.
The problem with this is that if someone were to post objectional information in their profile, then we would not be able to remove it. If it is on our site, we are responsible and as a result, we need to be able to remove content. This isn't to say that we don't trust you, but you always get one bad egg in the bunch.
I hadn't thought about the project idea! Good one. The two issues with that is that I would lose my company's branding and member information could be shared.
I would agree that you would lose branding. The projects tool might be better for the writing part of your idea so that you keep your company completely seperate. I am confused by your last suggestion "member information could be shared" could you explain further?
- Would it be possible to create a project that is co-branded with my company.
Our projects system does not support that as of now and we wouldn't be able to completely change templates without funding (obviously this will be something to look at when YouthBiz really takes off....
- Is it possible to integrate the TIG back-end into my back-end so that people from TIG who sign up for the project sign up for my site and people who sign up for the project through my site become TIG members?
Yes it is possible, but, this would create a security risk for us. All of our partners who use our back-end are hosted and completely maintained by us. This negates any chance of member information being shared with people who shouldn't have it. (I am not attacking you, but we need to be careful... if we lose one member, we could lose them all...)
If done right, that seems like it could be very mutually beneficial.
I agree. I think your suggestions will be integrated into YouthBiz's future website, but as of now, we won't be able to do some of these suggestions because of all the projects that we are already working on (we're going full tilt getting all of v.4 out.
-Hugh
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