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AERDO Presentation . 19 October 2003 Bill Bowers Vertical Symmetry Digital Solutions. Personal Backgroud. Bill Bowers – CES Chief Executive Servant Co-founder & former CTO of Crosswalk.com (NASDAQ: AMEN) 22 years of experience in Information Technology Design

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  1. AERDO Presentation 19 October 2003 Bill Bowers Vertical Symmetry Digital Solutions

  2. Personal Backgroud • Bill Bowers – CES Chief Executive Servant • Co-founder & former CTO of Crosswalk.com (NASDAQ: AMEN) • 22 years of experience in Information Technology Design • 1 Year as Interim Director of Application Development for American Bible Society Interactive • 7 Years leading design and development of crosswalk.com • 15 Years Central Intelligence Agency • Chief of Architecture and Engineering Branch for the Directorate of Intelligence • B.S. Engineering from VA Tech 1983 • Mr. Bowers serves on the Board of Directors of two non-profit, Christian ministries that provide high technology services to mission organizations • Global Digital Solutions www.globaldigitalsolutions.com • ILS international www.ilsinternational.net • Elder, small group leader, and Missions Support Team at Chantilly Bible Church

  3. Our Products and Services • Individual Websites built on our Life Servant Technology • Standard (setup plus monthly fee) • Custom (design fees plus monthly fee) • Private Label Networks • Standard • Custom (Templates, content items, services, etc.) • Custom Development

  4. Life Servant • Is a system for managing and empowering the complex relationships that exist within and between organizations. • It is focused supporting both the formal and informal communication paths within an org. • It is designed to be organic, growing and changing to reflect the dynamic nature of ministry and business today

  5. Driving Beliefs • Empowering people to serve one another strengthens everyone • The “Network Principle” • Every node that is added to a system increases the value of every other node in the network. (Example: the Fax network) • Corollary: • Every interaction by an individual with a site in the network should increase the value of the network to every other user

  6. Design Objectives • Create a system that: • Can be used by non-technical end-users • Can distribute the work load among various participants • Provides high-end corporate features to consumers • Provides Professional Look and Feel to the users end product • Allows for updating from a web browser • Provides for a quick start up with minimal system knowledge • Provides a full featured Content Management System (CMS) • Allows an editor to “share” content with other sites • Provides a way to schedule when content appears on pages • Implements one-to-one marketing principles • Allows for private areas of the site and can apply security to every item • Allows for easy expansion • Separates content from presentation

  7. Communication Flow for a Typical Web Site

  8. Limitations of these systems • Inefficiencies due to Webmaster bottleneck • Reflects only one aspect of an organization’s relationships (inside to public) • Fundamentally one-way only communication • Separated from internal communications

  9. The AERDO.net Vision • Provides for a variety of different types of Websites serving the AERDO community • AERDO.org main site • Theme/Track sites • Member sites • Convergent Assemblies sites • Project sites

  10. AERDO.net will bea collection of relatedwebsiteseach customized to thepersonalityof the entity itrepresentsyetinterconnectedas a whole.

  11. AERDO.net is about relationships It starts with the members by providing each entity with their ownmini-website: For coordinating their activities,communicating with each other,expressing themselves to the other member organizations.

  12. EveryAERDO.netsiteis provided with thetoolsto easily share ideas, best practices, or any resource with other members. SitetoSiteContentSharing

  13. AERDO Member Websites AERDO.net provides Member websites to each AERDO organization to facilitate their communication to their prayer and financial partners and to friends of their ministry. These sites also provide the capability to “push” content into other sites that wish to receive it.

  14. Member and Theme Sites • Provide customized starter sites for quick startup • Provide regular updates through content sharing to sister sites to the sites of those they serve • Increase communication with other member orgs working within their region or area of interest with private discussion boards

  15. Current Focus • Convert over the Main AERDO Website • Implement on LifeServant’s Content Management System • Design multiple appropriate templates and image themes • Prototype the Theme / Track Sites • Agriculture/Food • Disaster/Relief • HIV/AIDS • Micro Enterprise Development • Shelter/Housing/ Infrastructure • Children • Prototype a Mini-Member Site • Used for Publishing to other member sites • Used as an Add-on to Members Main Web Site

  16. Peer Information Exchange    • Communication with their peers is accomplished via content sharing between any member site

  17. AERDO.netis designed tostrengthentherelationshipsof thoseministeringand thosebeing ministeredto.

  18. Life Servant Technology

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