Cagora Community Marketing …

A One-Stop Shop

I want to tell you about Cagora because its coming and its going to be big … and because its different and promises to be a ‘One Stop Shop’ or Expo Market where you can find everything you need online with one ‘password’ and ‘username’,  as well as its great philosophy in what are going to be next phase of how business is transacted with more community responsibility and business accountability.  It hcagora,community marketing,a one stop shop,shopping,education,training,expo marketas amazing potential to affect how we use the Internet in the future and therefore affects everybody.  It has a win:win philosophy and has been built ‘by the people for the people’.

The Mix

Cagora stands for C=Community and AGORA was the name of the Ancient Greeks Market Place where people held Socialized, held Meetings, developed Ideas and Education, and transacted Business, and this basically describes what Cagora is about.  And its very relevant to us as Therapists and Coaches because this the way responsible communities would go about their daily lives, being accountable and caring equally for themselves and others.

An Online Expo Market Place

Good question … The easiest way to describe it is as an Online Expo Market Place/Community Centre where everyone hangs out … And here’s some of what it contains:

  • Business – trading in your niche market
  • Education – want to run an educational program then you can have a space with visual / speaking and chatting facilities
  • Encyclopedia – check out any information
  • Forum – get together and discuss the latest ‘hot topic’
  • Market Place – find any service you currently use online
  • Meeting Rooms – call a meeting to discuss your next business strategy
  • Seminars – hold seminars to reach your wider audience
  • Shopping – everything under one roof
  • Social – get together and hang out with family and friends locally, nationally and internationally
  • Training – run a training course and get your colleagues up-to-date with the latest ‘in-house’ information
  • Videos – upload your latest business promo’s or your wackiest moments
  • Workshops – facilitate practical ‘hands-on’ workshops where participants can engage and follow along in ‘real’ time

To name but a few … It has everything we currently use and more and has been almost a decade in its creation.  Where we currently visit Facebook, MySpace, eBay, Amazon, YouTube and other familiar friends, it will all be accessible in closer proximity like a ‘traditional’ market, with just one username and password to gain access …  So you can more easily bump into friends, family, business colleagues and workmates.

It’s simple, just log on and thats it … whatever you want to check out online will be viewable right there under the Cagora Umbrella …

Web 2.0 – Social Networking

Yes its very exciting and not only to Online Businesses, because Web 2.0 is being increasingly recognised as a key marketing feature for ALL business’ going forwards.  There is a slow realisation by many so-called ‘offline’ business’  who are recognising a market potential through customer connection available on the net.

What Web 2.0 does is enable a Business to talk to potential and ongoing Customers, and more importantly it allows Customers to have a look at a Business before they stop to purchase and decide on the ‘cut of their jib’.   This has wonderful potential for companies to become more market accountable.

The Community of Cagora

Cagora’s main thrust is COMMUNITY both off and online. They are about giving back/paying it forwards to the Community Partners and Affiliates, and includes a dedicated percentage towards community nominated projects. I don’t know about you but I think its exciting and has a great future  …

If you would like any more information then please contact me … or check out the affiliate program, which is offering a two-tier benefit until the end of the month.  Just to be clear this is NOT mlm … and if affiliate programs are not for you, then there are plenty of other opportunities to get involved with Cagora in other ways.  You may want to become a Community Partner and there is more information here …  Or if you prefer then please contact me.

Jane

Prisoner’s Freedom …

Prisoner’s Psychology

This article goes on a jaunt into the deeper realms of human behavior today.  The reason being that it ties in nicely with the how we work with others, which ultimately emits from us in all sorts of ‘feel-good factor’ ways and through the response we get from others it dictates our quality of life.

Marc Bekoff has been visiting Boulder County Jail in Colorado for the last 10-yrs (New Scientist – 03.21.09) teaching Animal Behaviour and Conservation Biology   The course is part of Jane Goodall Institute’s Roots and Shoots program is one of the most popular and made more so by the fact that inmates have to earn a place.

The Findings

What has been discovered is that prisoners respond well to the animals on the program in various ways:

  • They feel less judged than they do with other people
  • They have greater empathy with the animals
  • They have more trust than with people

And simultaneously they are able to articulate their own animalistic behavior that has led them to where they are.

The Teachings

They are taught that even though animals are aggressive and competitive, there is also a lot of compassion, cooperation, empathy and reciprocity. Bekoff explains “‘these behaviors are examples of ‘wild justice’ and this idea makes them rethink their own behavior.”

Pack Mentality

three-wolves-korzeniewskidaniel081200012He then shows the inmates examples of pack animal behaviors that support one another, such as wolves, and how they work together for the better outcome of the herd.

The Follow Up

Bekoff has found that after release from prison, many of his students have gone on to do great things they would not otherwise have thought within their grasp, it has made such a difference to them.  Some have gone back into education, some have donated money to conservation projects and some are working for humane organizations.  One person even went on to receive a Masters degree in Nature Writing.

The upshot is that these people, dismissed by society have, through creative psychology, have been given an opportunity to change and become contributing and responsible members of society.

Well done to Marc Bekoff, the prison and the program for thinking outside the ‘usual’ box and enabling people, who for whatever reasons, having strayed outside of societies accepted boundaries, have found their way back to a contributing role and thus restoring their self-respect and confidence.  Brilliant!

Jane

Marc Bekoff is Emeritus Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at The University of Colorado, Boulder, and author of books including Wild Justice: The Moral Lives of Animals.

Cagora’s Market Place …

Cagora

The OwlI want to talk about Cagora because its coming and its going to be big … and because its different and promises to be a ‘One Stop Shop’ with amazing potential to affect how we use the Internet in the future and therefore affects everybody.  It has a win:win philosophy and has been built ‘by the people for the people’.

What is Cagora?

Greek PillarsGood question … The easiest way to describe it is as an Online Market Place/Community Centre where everyone hangs out … And here’s some of what it contains:

  1. Business – trading in your niche market
  2. Education – want to run an educational program then you can have a space with visual / speaking and chatting facilities
  3. Encyclopedia – check out any information
  4. Forum – get together and discuss the latest ‘hot topic’
  5. Market Place – find any service you currently use online
  6. Meeting Rooms – call a meeting to discuss your next business strategy
  7. Seminars – hold seminars to reach your wider audience
  8. Gifts ShoppingShopping – everything under one roof
  9. Social – get together and hang out with family and friends locally, nationally and internationally
  10. Training – run a training course and get your colleagues up-to-date with the latest ‘in-house’ information
  11. Videos – upload your latest business promo’s or your wackiest moments
  12. Workshops – facilitate practical ‘hands-on’ workshops where participants can engage and follow along in ‘real’ time

To name but a few … It has everything we currently use and more and has been almost a decade in its creation.  Where we currently visit Facebook, MySpace, eBay, Amazon, YouTube and other familiar friends, it will all be accessible in closer proximity like a ‘traditional’ market, with just one username and password to gain access …  So you can more easily bump into friends, family, business colleagues and workmates.

It’s simple, just log on and that’s it … whatever you want to check out online will be viewable right there under the Cagora Umbrella …

Web 2.0 – Social Networking

SocialYes its very exciting and not only to Online Businesses, because Web 2.0 is being increasingly recognised as a key marketing feature for ALL business’ going forwards.  There is a slow realisation by many so-called ‘offline’ business’  who are recognising a market potential through customer connection available on the net.

What Web 2.0 does is enable a Business to talk to potential and ongoing Customers, and more importantly it allows Customers to have a look at a Business before they stop to purchase and decide on the ‘cut of their jib’.   This has wonderful potential for companies to become more market accountable.

The Community of Cagora

Cagora’s main thrust is COMMUNITY both off and online. They are about giving back/paying it forwards to the Community Partners and Affiliates, and includes a dedicated percentage towards community nominated projects. I don’t know about you but I think its exciting and has a great future  …

If you would like any more information then please contact me … or check out the affiliate program, which is offering a two-tier benefit until the end of the month.  Just to be clear this is NOT mlm … and if affilate programs are not for you, then there are plenty of other opportunities to get involved with Cagora in other ways.  You may want to become a Community Partner and there is more information here …  Or if you prefer then please contact me.

Jane

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