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LET
US HELP YOU, TOO.
DynamiteOnline
is not part of Dynamite Marketing. The DynamiteOnline
site supports a large community of independent Dynamite distributors.
Contact
us if you have a company, a club, an association, or any group that
would benefit from an online community that fosters better communication
between its members; that gives you an online and searchable archive
or your documents, your questions and answers, your products, or anything
else; and that gives you secure control over who may see or change
any content on your website.
If we
can be of help, send an email to SYSTEMS@DynamiteOnline.com
and let us know how and when to reach you.
A
BRIEF HISTORY
My career
in the computer industry goes back to France in 1979. In 1978, I was
a graduate student in Monterey, California, completing a Master's
in International Business Management and Economics and in French Translation
and Interpretation. The opportunity to teach at a French technical
university and to be a management intern at the Honeywell-Bull computer
company was just too good to pass up. I found that I had a bit of
a knack for simpifying processes and streamlining them with the help
of mini-computers. Upon my return to the U.S., I completed my degree
and found work with a major American computer company. With the advent
of the PC and later the Macintosh, my work at various market-leading
hardware and software companies focused on making relational databases
easy to use. What good are databases and forms and reports if the
average user cannot accomplish simple tasks easily? Later, my focus
switched to wireless telephone technology. Two other colleagues of
mine and I spun a company out of one of the largest U.S. computer
companies in 1999, received venture funding, built and licensed a
software product to a global top 5 carrier, and sold the company to
a publicly traded software company with nearly 1,000 employees in
February 2002. Strangely enough, the focus of our product is a technology
that allows the wireless carrier to share control of menus
on wireless telephones.
MY
PHILOSOPHY
Shared
control seems to be a theme in much of what I do with computers. The
DynamiteOnline website reflects my longstanding experience with databases
and my belief in the importance of intelligent sharing of the control
of data. Who can input data? What data can be seen by whom? How can
I coordinate input and approval of content between my office in California
and Regan Golob and Judy Sinner who ride herd on the content of the
website from their homes on opposite ends of the state of Washington?
How can I assure that any changes I make in any forms or menus of
DynamiteOnline also appear on the systems everywhere that I have granted
control? How can I allow any current subscriber to input a question
or comment while preventing misinformation, insulting or inapprorpriate
language, and the promotion of non-Dynamite products?
The answer
was to apply some of my basic beliefs about data management systems.
Whenever possible, data should be entered only once. Design changes
should affect existing data as well as future documents. In other
words, a comment or article that has been presented via the website
since it was entered in 1999 should take on any changes to the background
graphics, the links, or the publication approval process. No data
should be viewable or searchable until it has been approved for publication.
No subscriber should be allowed to "flame" another. The
system is expensive to create and maintain and people who use it should
pay for access. Those who don't pay should have their access taken
away. People who subscribe must first accept the Terms and Conditions,
including the agreement to NOT republish the content without my prior
written approval. Anyone found to be in violation of my copyright
must be dealt with to the full extent of the law. If something is
valuable, it is worth protecting. I have only the highest intentions
in creating a site of this kind. My philosophy is, quite simply, that
I will not associate with people who do not respect this undertaking
and I will not allow them to profit from my work and the work of all
of the marvelous people who continue to support the site with their
subscriptions, their questions, and their comments. As Dynamite's
Director of Communications, Judy Sinner contributed immeasurably to
the quality and quantity of information at your fingertips. She has
continued to provide tremendous articles and responses to your postings
in the Forum long after she stepped down from the role of Director
of Communications for Dynamite Marketing, Inc.
THE
RIGHT TECHNOLOGY — THE RIGHT TEAM — THE RIGHT LOCATION
I put
together a team of advanced programmers of IBM Notes Domino databases.
With their help, I laced together various databases to enable the
input, search, and archival of thousands of articles, product descriptions,
usage guidelines, and more. My servers are located inside a high-security
faciltiy in the Silicon Valley that also houses the top Internet auction,
email, portal, and financial sites in North America. The site has
redundant wiring for networks and power. It has the capacity to run
for days on a combination of battery back-up and diesel generators.
There are technicians on-site 24-hour-per day. Once again, I believe
that anything worth doing is worth doing right. I created an online
and searchable Distributor Manual. My system provides unlimited forwarding
of email to my subscribers. Everything I do is focused on realizing
the original goals of DynamiteOnline:
- creating
a true online community
- streamling
the sharing of Dynamite product information
- serving
up information to both the browsing public and the ever-growing
number of Dynamite distributors
- encouraging
easy communication between Dynamite distributors
WHY
DYNAMITE?
My wife
has been a Dynamite® distributor since 1992. Throughout
this time, we have both come to know and greatly respect Jim Zamzow,
the founder of Dynamite Marketing, his family, Dynamite
products, and the tireless efforts of Judy Sinner. We have also come
to know many of the top Dynamite distributors in the United States
and Canada. It became clear to me that the success of Dynamite
in expanding its distributor base would greatly increase the workload
on the entire staff. I became determined to respond to the growing
needs of Dynamite distributors everywhere by offering an Internet-based
system that put educational and research tools in their hands and
immediate product information into the hands of their prospects and
customers. There is so much valuable information to be shared. Why
not do it at "Internet speed"?
WE'RE
HERE TO HELP
My technology
and my team can help you, too. Please contact us if we
can be of assistance. Just send an email to SYSTEMS@DynamiteOnline.com
and let us know how and when to reach you to discuss your requirements.
All the
best,
Donald
Pilcher
Half Moon Bay, California
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