SocialChord’s online infrastructure is a new utility for the public. Just as every town has an electric or water company, every town will have an online utility to facilitate its public dialog and interconnect its local economy, institutions and efficient government experience with the citizen/consumer.

The opportunity for the United States in Recession is to rebuild our economy through accelerated public dialog and interconnectedness.

SocialChord is a unique combination of online and live solutions, technology and community optimization, business and government, mature adults and networked youth, which, when interconnected, will re-invigorate local commerce and social civic participation.

MySpace and Facebook have delivered Online Community 1.0, demonstrating its power to bring people together around common interest (music and college/education, respectively). Online Community 2.0 was about spreading the fundamentals of online networking and collaboration towards unpredictable and exciting niches of social and professional behavior. We are now entering Online Community 3.0 where the power of online community will integrate with the most fundamental, daily interactions of our local life. This moves us past the anonymous virtual world, and in to an accountable online reflection of our live experiences.

It is at the intersection of live and online that SocialChord is working to make a difference in our local communities. As the consciousness of the Nation moves towards building sustainable local communities, SocialChord is ready to meet the demand.

LOCAL WORKS! EXAMINING THE IMPACT OF LOCAL BUSINESS ON THE WEST MICHIGAN ECONOMY
September 2008