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The Communication Agents Journal

The new Communication Agents Journal aggregating the posts from all of our Communication Agents is now online. Please give it a look at: http://www.communicationagents.com/

I suggest to point your browsers and newsreaders to the new site as this Weblog will gradually fade out as the new Communication Agents take stronger momentum and start posting on a systematic basis.

As of now, the four new agents are still assimilating some of the basic now-how and getting themselves familiar with the news gathering and publishing process.

Though slowly we are steadily proceeding in the direction set while achieving some small but consistent results. In the last month all three pioneering CAs have consolidated their skills and have achieved some notable shares of traffic. Ivan Ingrilli in particular has been doing a spectacular job with his site and has been receiving many prestigious acnowledgements and invitations to republish his best essays.

Kudos to Ivan, our "talking cricket" for such great work!

Australia Doubles-Up!

Just in time before I closed accepting more official applications I received a wonderful letter of application from Jane Sloane in Australia, who has been gently alerted of the CA Initiative opportunity by already accepted Communication Agent Andrea rieniets, who has just recently joined our first group of unique communicators for social change. Here are a few excerpts from Jane application letter:

"Dear Robin,

Great news to have made the deadline for a hearing. Many thanks!

In response to your questions in completing the application process, I offer the following:

CA Initiative has the right texture and contour, in terms of the depth of skills on offer and the potential message reach, to help me work toward my vision.

It will also enable me to be a catalyst for others.

I seek both the grounding in technical skills and the latitude of networks and ideas to be able to engage others in:

a) the applications of conflict resolution,

b) achieving a conflict resolving community

c) exploring the best ways to realise a new world order that addresses the massive economic (and flow on social and cultural) disparity between nations

d) the radical steps needed to redress this (I particularly want to ensure an approach which focuses on the positives of what is possible rather than the reasons why it is impossible)."

Why do I feel this offer has a particular advantage over others?

"I haven't found any other Robin Goods in the forest of possibilities.

I think you have that lovely phrase, a Unique Value Proposition: "Stop surfing, start making WAVES!"

Perhaps it's luck, timing, place -- whatever, at some point you hear or see something that you'd only half imagined, had perhaps only given a nod to in the subconscious, and you say 'yes'

I can't articulate it any more than that - somehow I sense the whole will be greater than the sum of the parts by virtue of the others involved, the element of trust and the knowledge that it's a journey. From the bios and info I've read of others as well as yourself, I feel there's enough common values to know I'll be in good company.

The combination of it being a small, carefully selected group from different quarters of the world means it will be a rich mix of ideas, experience and outlooks.

The fact that you're taking a risk in making it all possible is an invitation to also be in risk-taking mode, enough for the adrenalin rush to kick in and to allow the flow to take its natural course."

Jane, welcome on board!

Read more about Jane Sloane in an upcoming profile view.
Thanks to Andrea rieniets for recommending and introducing to us Jane.

Can You Do Better?

Less than eight weeks have passed since three pioneering Communication Agents have started upon my personal invitation to test and verify that what I am now offering under the professional learning program labelled "Communication Agents Initiative", is indeed owrth of analysis and serious evaluation.

There is not anything else like it around.

Here are some hard data to make you see through actual tangible achievements what are the type of reach, visibility and influence successes that one can reach within the scope of this learning partnership.

Let's take Josef Hasslberger "Health Supreme" Web site and let's see what he has been able to achieve in this few weeks of learning partnership with me.

In less than 8 weeks "Health Supreme" has been able to achieve:

1) Nearly one hundred subscribers to a new mailing list setup on the site.

2) Over 10,000 unique visitors with daily peacks of over 500 unique visitors!

3) Google indexing of all articles published by Josef. If you verify you will see that 367 pages of Sepp's site have been indexed in this short amount of time. Compare this to what is in today news regarding the time and efforts it takes to get in there (scrool down to see the post entitled "Google"from Sarah Lord. Google is working fine, but if you don't know how to get in, you may just keep on blaiming on it).

4) New inbound links coming from over 25 Web sites including high-traffic resources as David Icke's, Jeff Rense's and Centrex News.

5) Effective news syndication of Josef posts across many other relevant health-related sites. See some samples here below:

See how nicely squeezed between Reuters feeds
sits our nice article from Josef.

Also in this case Josef's article has been picked up
and inserted among other news from main world
news sources like BBC and Newsday.

6) An unaccounted number of subscribers to Health Supreme RSS feed. Health Supreme can be picked up and read by so called newsreaders. These, are special news gathering tools which can access your site latest news and make it available for others to read. Newsreaders work basically in real-time, and allow for access to such news feeds from inside your email inbox, Internet browser or news aggregator tool.

7) Status in the so-called blogosphere. The blogosphere is the universe of Web sites powered either by blogging tools or by other standards compliant Web sites that employ some basic blog-like features such as RSS feed and trackback. This is a very dynamic space in which next to millions of superficial gossip and nonsense, great intellects and top new services shape both present reality and a possible future vision. To be part a very relevant of this space is of essence to our goals. Technorati measures your level of "authority" inside the blogosphere by way of counting for the number of links and blogs pointing to your site (only those coming from the blogosphere).

8) A flurry of great comments, posts and feedback emails which keep an open dialogue open between Josef and his audience.

That is not bad at all for less than 8 weeks of online publishing.

So, can you see a bit more of what I am really offering?

Can you do as good as Josef in the same amount of time?