Setting up Non-profit

Have spent the last week setting up our One Community Ranch 501 c non-profit organization while Sara has been working on expanding our social network presence.

Welcomed Christin Wilcox as our new VP of this non-profit (Jae: President, John: CEO).

Established a Myspace Page for myself and One Community:
OC: http://www.myspace.com/564376412
J: http://www.myspace.com/564377913

Expanded presence of "ethosolution" here: http://www.onecommunityranch.com/FAQ.html, and here: http://www.onecommunityranch.com/FAQ.html

Hard to do but we had to let go of the property near Kanab as a viable option - raised price was just too much for the project. Will talk to a good friend and huge realtor friend of mine after we return from the community event John is hosting in SLC this weekend: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=196729097025902 where we'll be introducing John to Attilio, David and Christine.

Tomorrow I set up a Twitter account and Wickipedia page for One Community and ethosolution...

Met with key investor... created new term: ethosolution

Spent Saturday talking with a key investor about the financials of the project - his comment was "hugely successful if you complete it but too risky because there can be no guarantee that you will complete it." In which case the value of the property would be less because, in a worst case scenario (that investors look at), we'd build parts of pods but not finished them and they then have to be removed.

His suggestion: find funding without limits. Tap into the most cutting edge companies out there and then market to oil companies, etc. as part of their R and D and positive publicity budget. Look for government grants. Tackle the following industries (and we listed about 10). 

So that is what we are going to do. Christine is looking into grants, I'm going to talk to Bill and get his take on the Oil Industry, and we continue to really focus on increasing exposure. 

I'd have loved for him to say "looks good, how do I get involved" but was expecting this to be a critique meeting anyway. The timing couldn't be better for what I've got planned in the way of marketing and meeting new people so "onward and upward."

Coined a new term to define what we are creating since the "evomimicry" people seem bogged down in administrative discussions: ethosolution. "Ethos" - essentially "character" or the ideals and principles that characterize an organization, community, or ideology and the world "solution" creating the following definition:
Any idea, organization, or cause founded upon guiding principles and ideals universally accepted as creating a better world: integrity, honesty, love, compassion, cooperation, sustainability, kindness, philanthropy, etc. Anything generally accepted as being a solution to common problems of our day and having a positive effect on humanity as a whole.

I purchased and set-up the domain along with the following pages:

www.ethosolution.com

http://www.ethosolution.com/ethosolution/definition.html

Spent the day working on the financials...

Added to already detailed spreadsheet on rental, timeshare, and home sales revenue. Met with Mike and explored a different way of doing timeshare SALES where you sell two month periods in the timeshare and then profit share if the person owning the two months doesn't use it or rent it themselves.

Pretty cool model for raising larger sums of money up-front to build something and could be a model we use to fund the building of the tree-house pod.

Details on all pods can be found here: http://www.onecommunityranch.com/One-Community-Pods.html

Updated all background images on all pages... much nicer and fixes an issue of the images popping up in full color in front of the text... very unsightly problem.

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Woke up this morning and my site pointed to the new Resource Based Economy page instead of my home page... no reason.  Took me about 45 minutes to fix... bizarre.

Imagine typing in www.onecommunityranch.com or www.onecommunity.cc and landing on http://www.onecommunityranch.com/resource-based-economy.html instead of the home page... with all the "home" buttons throughout the site getting you to the same wrong place!

Computers... magical and mysterious lol

All things for a reason, I'm sure.  Off to spend the day with my beautiful boy.

Just had to post that...

Long last week...

The last week has been busy busy busy. Attended the Prophet's Conference last weekend and made some outstanding contacts and met some amazing people. Barbara Marx Hubbard and Daniel Pinchbeck definitely stood out.

Returned from that and had two days with my son and then went right into a 5 day class where I met someone I feel strongly is meant to be on the ranch.

Started google Adwords today, installed Google Analytics yesterday. Fixed the search button on all the pages.

Created this page: http://www.onecommunityranch.com/resource-based-economy.html

Updated 5 other pages with suggestions and edits from Christine.

Spoke with Tina Malia's people about using her music...

Video 3 & 4

Video three turned out great! Posted here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCXQgZnyon0

Spent Friday morning with my son - Met with a new person interested and PERFECT as part of the community. Posted the video Friday night. Spent Saturday and Sunday working on fixing a couple website issues... the Social Networking button now works!... and scripting and producing the final video which is also now done!!

Here is video 4: Joining One Community: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EY9xe_C8gx8

Wrote up offer for our preferred property.

Success!

Video successfully created. It took dropping it into iMovie and another 3 hours but it's done.

Will post Friday afternoon.

To bed...