_U-ASK4-IT

The recent attention given to THE SECRET suggests that it is time to provide a working equation for how you can "just do it"! And, it's no secret - we must all become active participants in personal growth and group initiatives that will manifest cooperative benefits.

Much effort is wasted in trying to coerce people to participate in causes to which they do not (yet) relate. Everyone will, however, participate in activity that serves their individual needs and represents their own values. That requires only an invitation, and enough structure to mediate the interaction, capture the benefits, and dispense them, equitably. The recent shift from online content access and publication to social networking is one small step.

INDIVIDUALS, participating, in an open-market information exchange, on a global basis, can cooperate to solve the WORLD'S PROBLEMS. That is a simplistic re-statement of the goal of the Semantic WEB 3.0. For that result to realistically occur:
- Access must be FORMALIZED so that all global citizens can equitably participate - without repressive constraints.
- The content must be NORMALIZED to reflect a common basis of discussion - of understanding - and of benefit.
- Interaction must be MEDIATED to ensure all viewpoints are considered in route to a mutually beneficial consensus.

Over the past few years a structured approach has been created as a means to:
- Enable, Encourage, Engage, Manage, Improve, and Disperse
that global conversation.

ASK4(TM) has been designed to take advantage of some of the key processes that have been used for centuries to get things done. It can now be deployed online, globally. It establishes cooperative control of local data intersections on the global information highway - and supports its ASK4(TM) practitioners in:
- MERGING New Interaction
- MEDIATING New Consensus
- MAPPING New Destinies.

As a change management and process improvement model, ASK4(TM) is consistent with prior theories and current approaches that allow us to move forward and create sustainable results. It engages the concepts of social networking, business analysis, process improvement, and project management - to name a few. It dismantles the "bastions of reluctance" and creates "unintended consensus" that aligns stake-holders along a common critical path. (I jokingly call it "[SIC] SIGMA" [sounds the same] - much simpler).

ASK4(TM) offers a means to engage each participant in something worthwhile to them and makes conversations more productive. ASK4(TM) simplifies the approach so that users can enjoy better results by adopting the ASK4(TM) process as:
a way of LISTENING - a way of THINKING
a way of ASSESSING - a way of CHOOSING
a way of ACTING - in a cooperative model.

The syndicated ASK4(TM) model enables what is truly useful to be consistently obtained by those who need it, cooperatively.

And, the ASK4(TM) model has its own SECRET
(- that you can only get what you "ask for...").

FOOTNOTE:
"Perhaps it is not the job of governments to do what individuals, communities, and free-market citizens can do for themselves. This could be very disruptive to existing 'kingdoms'. That 'constructive disruption' could be a good thing, globally. The grid is in place, technology exists, all humanity beckons. We'll see." GBigger 9/2007