AERDO Presentation

19 October 2003Bill 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

• 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

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

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

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

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

Communication Flow for a Typical Web Site

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

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

AERDO.net will bea collection of

related websites each customized to the personality of the entity it

represents yet interconnected

as a whole.

AERDO.net is about relationships

It starts with the members by providing each entity with

their own mini-website: For coordinating their activities, communicating with each other, expressing themselves to the other member organizations.

Every AERDO.net site is provided with the tools to easily share ideas, best practices, or any resource with other members.

Site to Site Content Sharing

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.

AERDO Member Websites

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

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

Peer Information Exchange   • Communication with their

peers is accomplished via content sharing between any member site

AERDO.net is designed to

strengthen the relationships of those ministering and those being ministered to.

Life Servant Technology