There’s a problem that needs solving…I see it everyday in the work that I do with First Nation organizations and their communities: effective connection with their members. There are few very good examples of Nations, or Aboriginal Organizations that maintain a focused, effective and sustainable level of connection with their members. They are replete with attempts and web-based presence, but almost without exception they fall away eventually or become so diluted with clutter and meaningless content that they fail to maintain purpose. In addition other factors cause their demise…technologies are not updated, content and maintenance falters as program funding disappears, and priority for these types of communication wain as staffing changes and with apparent lack of impact/success. I use the term ‘connection’ instead of the term ‘contact’ or ‘communication’ because the conventional notion of these terms within First Nation communities is not very intimate, suggests one-way biased communication, and is not permission based. I would suggest that building an effective connection between First Nations/Organizations and their communities should be built around Mobile technologies and based on modern social media and communication methods. Don’t mistake this thought process for an attempt to reinvent or repackage FaceBook or Twitter (or some other similar social media) because it’s not. I want to build a highly customizable, very low cost application that scales to the needs and priorities of the First Nation, properly brands the organization, solves their critical membership data challenges…provides automated services and keeps technologies ‘current’…and most off all is accessible, useful and interesting, and convenient for all users! There’s going to be an APP for that…I am going to build it…and I am going to call it OneFeather.
Photo by Lawrence Lewis (2012)
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Lawrence Lewis
“Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.” – Gertrude Stein
About Lawrence Lewis
I do a number of things professionally...but most of all and the true purpose of what I do through "my work" is to provide for my family, be a good husband and great father, and try to make a difference as a world citizen...I guess it's not much more complicated than that 🙂