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 | Designed and supervised one of the first Extranet
applications ever, to tightly link a F100 firm with one critical vendor to create a large
virtual team. |
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| We helped a large, multinational firm deploy e-mail
and other compelling technology to loosen a rigid hierarchy and smooth communications
across groups of many different native languates. |
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| Fostered and nurtured over several yearsan on-going, on-line intentional community with several thousand
mutually-supportive and cooperative users. |
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Click on the buttons (left) or links (above) to look at descriptions of
just a few of the projects of which we're proudest. Check back often, because we're
always adding more from our growing family of happy clients. |
Background
Deep Woods Technology was founded by Carol
Anne Ogdin in 1992, out of her conviction that modern computer technologies were going
to increasingly require attention to the corporate culture. The use of e-mail, the
Internet, and technologies then only on the drawing boards were going to foster
communications among people...and those people were going to be separated by space and
time. She foresaw: |
| More organizations operating free of traditional restrictions of real estate and local
employment. We're going to see more telecommuters, contractors and ad hoc
teams formed for a specific purpose (e.g., product design and launch, marketing campaign,
financial audit), and disbanded at project's end. She forwsaw that new technologies
could make that easier and more effective.
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| Organizations operating with more dispassionate distance from employees, and
contractors...with the consequent alienation of the traditional workforce. She's
seen passion migrate to the smaller firms, who are willing to work only with those larger
organizations willing to give them more freedom that they would have traditionally allowed
employees.
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| Growing dissatisfaction on the part of many non-technical executives with IS/IT
management's focus on cost-of-technology issues and newest upgrades, at the expense of
true business leverage. She reasoned that the bright IS/IT professionals could learn
their employers' business cultures and become more effective.
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| Turnaround in the treatment of employees as interchangeable parts (aka
"downsizing") to recognition that they have knowledge that can be liberated.
She reasoned that providing the right tools and the right environment could free
that knowledge to make it available as competitive leverage. |
Our comprehension and methods have grown with the industry.
The emergence of the World Wide Web, and its widespread adoption in corporations has
proven the original theses that formed the business' focus. |
Our Technology
We "walk the talk." Whether at home or on the
road, we access the WWW several times a day, maintain e-mail contact with our colleagues
and clients, participate in voice and video conferences. Please feel free to explore the technology we use in more depth. |
| Lotus Notes (R4.6) is the backbone of our internal system. It means we can
maintain secure client contact through e-mail, shared databases, collaborate on accounts
among ourselves, and WWW access through a single user interface. We do that at home
(yes, we work from home when not on client sites), and from hotels in far-flung cities (here's how we do that). Most significantly, it's
how we're productive while airborne.
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| Microsoft Exchange (V5.5) is our alternative technology for communication. It
provides us communication with our growing body of clients who have made the commitment to
Exchange.
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| Web Publishing is provided by the Internet Information Server (IIS 4.0) under Windows
NT. We developed this web site in Microsoft FrontPage 98, and use it as a test bed
for other technologies we review on occasion. We use MS Internet Explorer (3.02 and
4.01) and Netscape Communicator (4.04) for browsing. Our Web site wasn't quite as
easy as we thought it might be to implement; we're sharing our
experience as an antidote to the advertising hype in the media.
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| We have used Intel's ProShare 200 for videoconferencing over ISDN. We're now
exploring other alternatives, to be used over the Internet. |
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How to Reach Us
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