Leanne C. Boyd
Capella University
MBA8395, The Wired Nonprofit
Final Project / Paper
Instructor: Janet Salmons
Submitted: March 29, 2001
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Creating the Online Presence and
Base eCommerce Structure
for Refuge Earth (refugeearth.org)
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(or view the HTML web page)
III.
Areas of concentration:
expanding the online presence of Refuge Earth
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Pale Blue Dot, the new Flash site created for this class
The online Learning Environment of Refuge Earth; one of the Refuge Earth
Communities; reconstructed for this class; navigation elements are Flash 5.0 by
Macromedia.
Eleven (11) pages/sections were completed, or nearly completed, during MBA8395:
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Previous site: http://www.refuge-earth.hispeed.com/pages/palebluedot/palebluedot.htm
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Button: Refuge Earth Academy
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Button: Try a Class: Space Artists
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Button: Dedicated to Carl Sagan
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Button: Explore Environment Issues
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Button: Beam-Me-Up Books!
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Button: Search Specific Items
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Button: Visit Our Intranet
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Button: RE : Chat Room
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Button: RE : Village Market (prototype has been built in Miva Merchant; not yet operable)
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Button: Sign Our Guestbook
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Button: Subscribe to The Gazette
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The Gentle Zoo Gazette
Premiere issue of the Refuge Earth Community newsletter
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Subscription
page
Subscribe online to the newsletter
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Thank
You For Subscribing page
The subscription submission redirects the guest to this page, and sends
the guest information to my email address; please make sure to try this from
the actual Subscription page!
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Read
the April 2001 Gentle Zoo Gazette
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Refuge
Earth Village Market
eCommerce structure of Refuge Earth, a prototype of a “Community Store,”
showing the means for self-sustaining action as a wired nonprofit
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Refuge
Earth Village Market – Web Store for All of Refuge Earth
(primary eCommerce Web page) – Affiliate program / product offerings,
the heart of self-funding for Refuge Earth. Future plans: a percentage of
profits will be donated to selected educational and environmental nonprofit
organizations
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Pale Blue Dot – Web Store for the Virtual Learning Environment
eCommerce page, offering products necessary in the Refuge Earth learning
environments, academic and learning
resources, free and low-cost courses available in Affiliate programs and
online learning entities (Universities, colleges, professional development,
etc.)
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Waybill
To Adventure – Carson Enterprises – A Private Business Entity
eCommerce page, an example of “Partner Sites,” part of the self-funding
program for Refuge Earth; web development for outside companies, maintenance of
sites and merchant stores
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The
Refuge Earth Guestbook
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Online Tool: Guestbook Depot at: http://www.guestbookdepot.com/
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The
Refuge Earth Chat Room
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Online Tool: IrCQ-net chat network at: http://www.icq.com/ircqnet/download/
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The Refuge Earth Intranet,
with Group Forums, Calendar, and Scheduling
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Online Tool: Intranets.com at: http://www.intranets.com/
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Creation
of prototype Banner Ads
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Online Tool: CRECON.com at: http://crecon.com/banners/
IV.
Integrating this
project with existing pages of Refuge Earth
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Refuge Earth Academy
and the learning environments (prior coursework)
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Proposal
for a Cyberschool
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The
Marketing Strategy – the Word doc may be downloaded here
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Space
Artists: Prophets of the Stars – a prototype of a learning tool
in Refuge Earth Academy
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Interface
design – geared toward interactivity on this web site
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Assessment on learning activities in “Space Artists,” on the
space
artist, Beth Avary
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For submission to potential partners: schools, businesses
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For submission to potential clients: offering PC consulting and Web design/development — part of company plan for self-support
