Transcripts of Business on the World Wide Web chat sessions

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Business on the World Wide Web -- where "word of keystroke" begins

Weekly chat session with Richard Seltzer, Thursdays 12 noon-1 PM (US Eastern Time = GMT -5). Connect to the Web-Net Web site http://www.web-net.org Once you are there, click on "Richard Seltzer's Chat: Business on the World Wide Web." Web-net is a free business networking user group -- people who learn, share and grow using the Web. The chat room will be open at all times, but the scheduled time is when we'll all plan to be there. Complete, edited transcript of all past sessions are available here. See hyper-linked list below.

The once and future Internet: Here you'll see the Internet the way it was and should be: useful information for free, with no advertising, and no annoying graphics or glitz. Enjoy and spread the word.

Please send email with your follow-on questions and comments, and suggestions for topics we should focus on in future sessions. So long as the volume of email responses is manageable, I'll post the most pertinent ones here for all to see.

These sessions are hosted by Richard Seltzer seltzer@samizdat.com . If you would like to receive email reminders about upcoming sessions, please send email.

This is one of the longest-running chat programs on the Web. (Please let us know if you know of ones that are older.) We've been doing this for over three years -- since June 1996.

This year, in parallel with the chat program, Richard do a 5-minute weekly radio segment on "The Computer Report," which is heard live on WCAP in Lowell, Mass., and is syndicated on WBNW in Boston and WPLM in Plymouth, Mass, and will also available as RealAudio at www.thereport.com He will base each week's five-minute segment on a recent chat discussion. He will also turn that same five-minute segment into a weekly article for posting at this site and for distribution to other sites through iSyndicate www.isyndicate.com.

How can we help you? Richard Seltzer is an independent Internet writer/speaker/consultant. Click here for details.

For an article on how to make chat work for your business, see www.samizdat.com/events.html.

For articles on topics related to this one, check our newsletter, Internet-on-a-Disk www.samizdat.com/ioad.html

For a free audiotape of Richard Seltzer explaining the principles of "content-based Internet marketing" go to the Corbett Group www.corbettgroup.com

This site is hosted by Acunet, in Marlboro, MA, providers of dial-up Internet access, high-speed DSL, Web hosting, Web design, and AcuShop (TM) business-to-consumer and business-to-business eCommerce solutions.

Topics scheduled for upcoming sessions:

December 16, 23, 30 -- no chat, Christmas and New Year's break
January 6 -- Online holiday shopping: lessons and war stories. What did we learn?
January 13 -- Online auctions, (guest = Bob Supnik from Fairmarket, which is in the business of hosting branded person-to-person auctions)
TBD -- continue our series of chats on creative content-based business models and related technology, e.g., dynamic content generation, content aggregation, content-based Web marketing (possibly invite NorthernLight, ZDnet, WSJ.com, etc.)
TBD -- Internet telephony: what is real today? where will it be in the near future? and what related business opportunities are opening up?
TBD -- begin series on industry consolidations -- types of mergers and partnerships; what works and what doesn't and why? do mega-mergers and mega-companies make business sense in an environment where success often goes to the small and nimble?

Send email with your suggestions for topics and guests to: seltzer@samizdat.com

Transcripts of previous chat sessions:

Online auctions

December 2, 1999 (guest: author Joseph Sinclair), December 9, 1999 (guest: Calvin from AuctionRover)

Selling content/getting paid for content on the Web

October 21, 1999 , October 28, 1999, November 4, 1999 (guests: Greg Schmergel and Carolyn Unger from ExpertCentral.com; Chris Wills from Learnlots.com)

What's happening to Money

October 14, 1999 (guests: Richard Rahn, author of The End of Money, and Russ Jones, marketing manager for MilliCent, a microcommerce system from Compaq)

Wireless Internet

September 30, 1999 October 7, 1999 (guest: Alan Reiter, president of Wireless Internet & Mobile Computing, a wireless data consulting company) Related article on wireless Internet, Second article on wireless Internet

Business opportunities opened by high-speed Internet access

September 23, 1999 (guests from The Computer Report, radio show broadcast in Lowell, MA, Sundays, 7-8:30 AM, on WCAP 980 AM in Lowell/Boston, MA) an article based on this discussion