PREDICTIONS - PRESENT and PAST

Happy New Year!  I've been told that I see 2-5 years into the future when it comes to business, technology and social movement ... on the bleeding edge ... what do you think ... have any additions?     (Latest version at Predictions.KentonHJohnson.com.)

2013 Predictions:

·   Google forcing users to join Google+ to obtain certain Google services will create a backlash. (May 2013) - confirmed (2014)

·   Bookstores become search, sale, delivery and review centers for new, used, specialized and rare print and electronic books and periodicals, guiding boomers and other technically-challenged customers, as well as offering other media-related services and products (mid 2013)

·   Professionally-shot CD/DVDs for museums, zoos, tourist attractions with profitable traffic – to raise money and create high-quality memories/documentation (Sep 2013)

·   Surround, four-wall video centers for like-you-are-there travel, events, meetings, sales showings (Oct 2013)

 Past Predictions:

·   Future urban traffic signals will be like the computerized San Jose Traffic Control Project (SJTCP, 1967), with detector reliability a major problem - detector reliability still a problem (1988) but many coming to fruition (2000's)

·   Use Operations Research techniques to optimize vehicle routing (1971) - confirmed (1975)

·   Computer use for lab assignment computations (San Jose State University, 1968) – witnessed general use at University of Colorado (1976)

·   Personal Rapid Transit (PRT- paper on Santa Clara County CA transportation, 1971) – Denver Metro's RTD created a plan for PRT system (1972) and residents voted for a sales tax of 1/2% over the six counties … 80% were earmarked for PRT construction (1973) … unfortunately scrapped (probably as internally planned) - Growth (1975)

·   Multi-type-criteria decision analysis (thesis, 1970-1973)

·   First Colorado chapter of Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group for Scientific Computing(SIGSCI, 1977)

·   Adapting modified cricket bowling for baseball pitching (Littleton youth league, 1977) - not adopted, but research on thedangers of baseball-type pitching, especially for youth, has come out this Century strongly in favor of alternatives.

·   PCs for engineering firms (3 years before IBM's PC; CCC 1978; international newsletter, ECAN 1979)

·   True cost of PCs – 8-10% of hardware cost per month (ECAN, 1980) – well-documented by Intel (2010)

·   Understanding (via familiar calculators) and buying PCs (seminars, books, articles, 1981)

·   Using spreadsheets (VisiCalc, Lotus then Excel) for contact databases and heavy computing applications, as well as sell personal computers - engineeering clients loved the control and power (ECAN, 1979-) - confirmed for databases(1983), heavy computing applications (1983), and selling PCs (1983)

·   Tablet-sized laptops will be popular for speeches, remote reporting via telephone modem as well as general applications (started using TRS-100, $1200, 1983) - confirmed (1986)

·   Geeks (vs jocks) rule the free world (lectures, 1985) - confirmed (1998)

·   Software marketing via limited trial version (QuickSurf, disks, 1986)

·   CrowdFunding for start-up capital (raised $1200 in 2 weeks, in $50, 6-month loans, for business colloquium/networking event, 1992) - pre-cursor to Fund Busting (1995) and KickStarter (2009)

·   Mini-resume index card for large networking events (Income Builders Int'l, 1992) - appeared in volume (2000)

·   Need for self-esteem reinforcement AV for children - (teamed with experts Lee Poulos and Jack Canfield to help develop and promote, 1993) - appeared later in the decade and beyond (1996)

·   Licensed-registered-certified-referral-only wellness network to reduce healthcare costs and improve/save lives (CompWellness:  books, 1996; helping bi-partisan Colorado Alternative Medicine bill pass, 1997; holistic first aid for Y2K, 1998; 24/7 800 hotline to ensure holistic care availability, 1998; first national, professional website, 1999) - confirmed and emulated (2000-)

·   Google beating Yahoo (1998) - confirmed (2005)

·   Content-based search engine optimization (Google Rank 0 to 4 in 12 months, CompWellness.net, 2000)

·   Scalable webpages (work on several-sized screens and devices; CompWellness.net and personal/client webpages, 2000) - strongly confirmed (2002)

·   Personal domain names for resume, permanent email address and web presence (KentonJohnson.com, 2000) - confirmed(2002)

·   Online brochures that are faxable and printable on letter paper or 2-sided cards (SitesCW.KentonHJohnson.com andExperience.KentonHJohnson.com, 2000) - confirmed (2006)

·   Computer / mobile skills necessary to survive in business or as skilled worker (2000) - confirmed (2003)

·   Holistic homecare for the elderly to extend enjoyable life and greatly reduce costs (mother and CompWellness team, 2004) -confirmed (2008)

·   Executive collaborative networking versus selling each other's connections (Collaborator.PSKHJ.com, 2004) - confirmed(2006)

·   Web 2.0 marketing (Great Offer, Get Information Today, Market-Market-Market gently - 9:1 info:promo ratio) for the everyman (GOgitMMM™ Report, 2005) - confirmed (2007)

·   Abundant use of free sub-domains to organize and enter websites for 100s of pages of authored or referenced webpages (PersonalLinks.KentonHJohnson.com, 2005) - confirmed (2007)

·   Residential real estate bubble crash (divested all holdings, 2006) - confirmed (2008)

·   Continuously-running pictures - personal, business, stock - as screen savers on all computers in normal surroundings to stimulate memory and brain integration (for mother and family, 2004) - confirmed (2007)

·   Currency trading government interference (FxBetter.biz, 2007) - confirmed (2009)

·   ObamaCare will be shoved through Congress with little attention to healthcare, wellness, prevention or the people it was supposedly protecting (late 2008) - confirmed (2013)

·   Computer-web-mobile-cloud integration (ConsultComm.PSKHJ.com, 2008; in full play on ITCapabilities-2D21C.ProsperSystems.biz, 2012)

·   Consulting for equity - Consultant, Advisor, Director or Management Team for startups or operating companies (Collaboration.ProsperSystems.biz, 2009) - confirmed (2011)

·   Eco-friendly mineral processing will dominate future mining (nanotechnologies, 2010) - confirmed (2013)

·   7" tablet preference to 8-10" (fits inside jacket pockets better - usually only 5" wide - 2010) - 7" popularity exceeds 10" (late 2013) - jury out on 7" vs 8"

·   Collaboration is the key to success for this decade (Blog.ProsperSystems.biz - Collaboration Network, 2011) – appearing more and more in business media, including Huffington Post (2013)

·   Nouveau, highly-graphic resumes (evolving KentonHJohnson.com. 2005; corporate online Resume.ProsperSystems.biz, 2013) - confirmed (2011)

Thank you very much, Kenton Johnson (.com) • BRIEF on Prosper Systems (.biz) - note new Corporate Resume

USA 302KentonJ - GoogleVoice: 302-536-8665; transcribed voice messages and text; forwards to mobile and GoogleTalk

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RSVP: Seeking REFERRALS to Personnel - Very Part-Time Virtual, then Full-Time On-Location or Virtual

Published in our Blog and Group

Recently-Updated version of opportunities at MoreResources.ProsperSystems.biz 

Prosper Systems and its clients are rapidly growing so require excellent people ... now: 

• Time Commitment and Environment 

... Working a couple of hours a week, growing to full time after reaching minimum funding levels 

... Virtually via email, phone, collaborative tools and video conferencing 

... Full time can optionally be on location, later, if reasonable 

• Compensation 

... Deferred but generous monthly compensation, payable after reaching minimum funding levels 

... Profit Sharing on high-potential, near-term $100M to $2B net-profit projects 

... Other lucrative perks 

• Locations - growing to Denver, Phoenix, Palm Springs, Reno, Nevada, California, Oregon, Idaho, Alaska and NE South America 

• Industries - see Collaboration.ProsperSystems.biz (includes Mining, Real Estate and High Tech) 

• Referral Fee Schedule - suggest 5-20% as a basis for arrangements with your Referrees 

PLEASE REFER or APPLY for these OPEN POSITIONS: 

• Executive Assistant growing to Executive levels (Urgent) 

• SEC Compliance Officer (Urgent) 

• Corporate Counsel 

• Financial Officers 

• Operations Officers 

• Computer professionals (office, communications) 

• Real Estate professionals 

• Engineers (especially Mining)

• Geologists (especially Mining)

• Project Managers 

• Draftspersons 

• Paralegal 

• Administrators 

• Virtual Assistant 

• Others that you or your associates may BOLDLY identify from our webpages 

Please make Referral Fee arrangements with your Referrees in advance. 

Happy to answer questions 10-6 USA Mtn Time (GMT-6) weekdays, other times by appointment. 

Thank you very much, 

Kenton Johnson, Founding Member

ph: (302)KentonJ (Google Voice, 302-536-8665) 

What do YOU NEED NEXT? 

BEWARE: conversion to LinkedIn's NEW CONTACTS is NOT RECOMMENDED.  NEW CONTACTS is seriously defective -- poorly launched as famously done by Microsoft and Google (now coined SoftGoo™): 

• Reverting NOT allowed, 

• NO select and send to a list of contacts, 

• Sync to other contacts is only ONE WAY, 

• NO sorting by Last Name and ... 

• Their blogs allow NO feedback

• They ignore their Help Forums

Thank you very much, Kenton Johnson (.com) • Collaboration with Prosper Systems (.biz)

USA 302KentonJ - GoogleVoice: 302-536-8665; Transcribed Voice Messages and Text; forwards to Mobile (303-770-4022), GoogleTalk and other phones.

For Lucrative Referrals and Participation:  Keep an eye out for Referrals to Companies, Collaborators and Capital for projects that are or will be worth $100M++.  See latest and refer using Brief.ProsperSystems.biz - worth a minimum of $50K to you per project.  {Yes - upon sale, my current projects will be worth $80K to $8M each to four Referrers and Collaborators (participants) ... so far.}

Easy/Smart/Faster Business Operations

Dear Collaborators-           Also posted on our Group.ProsperSystems.biz - Join!

Being basically lazy, I've learned the easy/smart/fast ways of doing many things, especially in technology.  You might like some of these:

• For a private street address, obtain the least-expensive local PO Box and use the Post Office's address, e.g., 280 East 1st Avenue, Suite pobox, NearestBigCity ST zipcode ($11/quarter at USPS including forwarding – beats the UPS store: $60-$75/quarter plus $30 & postage for forwarding).

• For a quick, free yet classy business webpage, create a LinkedIn Company page, buy a company domain name (Best supported from GoDaddy.com), then point it to the new Company Page.  You can also buy a personal domain name and point it to your personal LinkedIn page, then you are done for the year.  

• If you want to get fancier, GoDaddy.com has 1- to unlimited-page website builders for $1-$7 per month, paid annually, including a domain name at no charge (best deal in the country now – I'm experimenting with the new, 10-page $4/month version now that automatically makes a customizable mobile version (the wave of the future)

• When you buy a domain name, buy as much of the domain suite as you can – .com, .biz, .org, .info, .net, .me, us, .ws – saves money (usually ~$5 vs $10) ... and ... discourages some foreigner from buying one of them then trying to sell it back to you for $600.

• Sub-domains are a way to quickly and distinctly access parts of your website, stand-alone webpages and others' webpages, or address stored documents, without buying more domain names.  You can also change the contents and re-direct anytime, without having to notify your clients and associates. GoDaddy.com allows at least 99 sub-domains per domain.  Examples: NDNCA-S.pskhj.com (very short, TXT file), GOgitMMM.ProsperSystems.biz (Advanced Internet Marketing, WEB landing page), Abcrr.ProsperSystems.biz (Downloadable Collaborator Application, XLS file*), KentonHJohnson.TopVitas.com (resume, PDF), Linkedin.KentonHJohnson.com (LinkedIn profile, WEB page), as well as our Brief, Collaboration and CCO webpages.

• It is much smarter to have your own domain with associated email address, such email@KentonHJohnson.com, re-directed to your current email address (which is currently on gMail).  You can change the email server without notice, and not have to go through the lengthy notification and conversion processes.

• That also goes for phone number(s).  800/877/866/855 phone numbers can be re-directed quickly, but sometimes at a fee, so I use Google Voice which can be accessed from anywhere in the world, and rings my home, mobile and Skype numbers, as well as transcribes to text mail.  The actual numbers are kept private and can change whenever I want.  (Ringing my Skype is sometimes more obvious than my phone, especially if I've left it on silent or elsewhere.)  Vanity numbers such as my 302KentonJ and 888-4KENTON might also be available.  

• Sync all your files to the "Cloud" so you can access them from anywhere on any smart device – can even send to your printer or others' that you add (recommend DropBox.com).  You can share folders with others for instant Collaboration (restrict invitations from your invitees unless they are very close)

• HootSuite.com simultaneously posts to Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and other social media accounts (but not Google+ personal account only the business account at this point), saving posting each yourself (or hire someone to).  It can also schedule them for later, and you can submit a spreadsheet with date, time, message and accounts for several future posts.  Some websites will allow you to post their article or page directly through HootSuite.

• Sometimes, a smart device like a tablet or smart phone, has more user functionality, especially for social media posting (such as to HootSuite)

• For professionals, and small businessmen, who don't have a lawyer on retainer for their personal or small business questions – traffic, contracts, wills, accounting, collections, rentals, etc – or be represented in legal actions – disputes, infractions, audits, etc.  See SeekWiseCounsel.biz for excellent service in US and Canada..

• Consulting as a professional or in addition to your "day" profession or business can be much more lucrative per hour if you help start-ups, expansions and mature companies for equity and stipend as consultant, adviser, board member or officer.  It takes longer to see the money, but can make you wealthy, allow you to retire early then become a seed capitalist for more rewards:  personal, professional and financial.  See out latest Brief.ProsperSystems.biz for ideas and opportunities.  Current projects will be worth $80K to $8M each to four Referrers and Collaborators (participants) ... so far.  Happy to answer your questions.

Please post your suggestions.  We'll update this list on this Blog with the direct sub-domain, BetterBusOps.pskhj.com

To our Lucrative New Year, Kenton Johnson (.com) • Collaboration.Prosper Systems.biz

USA 302KentonJ – GoogleVoice: 302-536-8665; Transcribed Voice Messages and Text; forwards to Mobile (303-770-4022) and Skype (KentonDenverCO)

*NOTE on LINKS:  those that are to "download" will be in your Downloads folder (in Chrome), you'll be asked where to put them (Internet Explorer or Firefox) or SD card (mobile devices).

IT Capabilities for the 2nd Decade of the 21st Century

Also posted at Group.ProsperSystems.biz

Latest version at ITCapabilities-2D21C.ProsperSystems.biz

Are your Information Technology (IT) capabilities stuck in the 20^th Century or have they advanced to the 2^nd Decade of the 21^st Century?

·   Most of your clients are using Apple, Android or Windows phones and tablets – are your websites looking and functioning well on them?

·   Most of your people are using mobile phones and tablets:

o  Are these being integrated at your company IT?

o  Have secure access to sales, financial, history (e.g., stocks, personnel, medical, mechanical and maintenance), and requirements (regulatory – should this waste drum be here)?

o  Have offline capability to queue updates when can get online?

o  Can you voice update, write update or text to your database?

o  Are you using highly, portable, wonderfully capable 7" tablets?

o  Are your office and mobile application documents – word, text, spreadsheet, PPT – fully compatible?

o  Can you access the latest versions of company documents from anywhere in the world?

·   Can you collaborate on documents from anywhere in the world?

·   Have you migrated your websites to the newer multi-media, multi-platform HTML5 Standard yet?

·   Do you have your company or marketing database(s) integrated in your website so that your people or customers can update their info, progress, requirements online?  Eliminates transfer errors and delays.

·   Do your websites update from in-house databases – personnel, financial reports (public companies especially), board reports, press releases, social media updates, or is 20^th-century manual/IT entry required?

·   Do you have your own Intranets/Internal Portals – for company info, training and updates and sharing information?  Going to outside services, such as LinkedIn, Google+ or Facebook opens up distraction and loses control.

·   Do your static graphics look great?

·   Are your graphics slow to download?

·   Are you using walk-on graphics, background graphics or video?

·   Do your graphics update dynamically from the latest data (charts, graphs – such as prices, products, services, personnel photos) by in-house users versus IT?

·   Are you at the top of search engines for your product or service keywords?

·   Do you have a high rate of contact information capture on your site(s)?  Auto-captured emails, phones, addresses are highly valuable, but only if you use them for client relations and gentle marketing.

·   Do you email your customers/clients regularly with highly-usable information and critical company updates?

·   Is your email marketing "one size fits all," or is it customized by needs, previous purchases/activity, demographics and time they entered the system?  Ads on Google and social media sites are tailored to your profiles and past activity, and the latest email systems add time-in to sequence marketing.

·   Do you alienate your prospects/customers/clients with regular promotions or disguised promos, or are you giving them information that makes them want to open your emails, texts and mail?  90% of communications with them should be highly-useable information – short, sweet, golden nuggets that can be immediately utilized to improve their lives or business.

·   Technical - Could your IT systems be hacked, shutdown, compromised or disrupted easily?

·   Are your in-house and on-line applications safe from non-authorized users or use?

·   Do you have any systems that have problems or are really slow?

·   Satisfied with your web host?

·   Have you purchased your full suite of domain extensions and similar domain names?  Squatters are grabbing popular and valuable domain name extensions, similar names, such as .info, .tv, .us and .ws extensions, as well as negative name versions (FordReallySucks.com), hoping to sell them to back to you when they start popping up on Internet searches.

·   Are you paying for software by the computer or licensing by number of users?

·   Do you have to update your computers every time there's a software update?

·   Is you day-to-day and critical data protected by fire-proof, high-security offline storage … daily?  Hourly?  Every update?

·   Can your people access their day-to-day documents online via secured connections?

·   Can you collaborate on documents from anywhere in the world via secured connections?

These capabilities and opportunities can be:

·   Created in-house by your IT staff, but often they are overwhelmed keeping critical systems functioning and improved, so …

·   Talented contractors can do the job, but often they have a limited scope, so

·   Wide-spectrum, highly-experienced service organizations that use local project managers and well-educated and deeply-experienced local and off-shore designers and developers.

However you implement the upgrades, do so now, for those who do not keep their systems up to date will find it tougher and tougher to compete.

Comments and suggestions welcomed.  Contact info above.

Prosper Systems (.biz) • Kenton H Johnson (.com), Founding Member
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USA 302-Kenton-J (GoogleVoice 302-536-8665 w/text • forwards to mobiles and Skype)

REFERRAL OP: Meeting Collaborators and Viewing Projects in Western Arizona USA, 9/24-10/1

Meeting Collaborators and Viewing Projects in Western Arizona USA

Sept 24 - Oct 1 – Prosper Systems' Chief to Meet New Collaborators and Visit Projects

Looking at Projects worth or to be worth US $100MM++

Collaborate with us on our Next Trip … 

Who/What Do You Know in Western Arizona?

For easy Referring, forward Trip.pskhj.com (refresh for latest version)

Also emailing to our databases, so there will be some duplication, and 

posting on our Blog and Group (best viewed in new Group format).

Those who've completed an Abcrr or Aproject App receive earliest notification.

WHERE:  Phoenix-Chandler, AZ areas, with side trips anywhere in Western Arizona, USA

WHEN:  Monday to Monday, flying into Phoenix (PHX) 9/24 at 2:50 PM; transferring to Chandler 9/24 (ride to Chandler when showing a project appreciated); returning 10/1 to fly out of PHX at 3:45 PM

Scheduling:  Phoenix – 9/24-30 – afternoons

                     Chandler and Western AZ – 9/24-30 – days and possible overnights

                     Phoenix – 10/1 – morning in Metro Phoenix; early afternoon near PHX airport

WHO:  Kenton Johnson, Founding Member, Prosper Systems LLC + Life-Companion

Connected to six Buyers with up to $1B per purchase or investment

WHY:  Collaboration is the Wave of the Future (Google The Future IS Collaboration). 

We used to trade our time for dollars.  Now we and several of our Co-Collaborators trade our time and extensive talents for equity and some cash/commodity in the projects that we work, yielding instead of $100 per hour, closer to $100 per Minute.  Referrals yield 5-20% of our income.

PURPOSE – Meet and Visit:

 * Projects and their Owners

 * Buyers and Investors

 * Intermediaries, Consultants, and other Collaborators**

 * Licensed Real Estate and Private-Placement Securities Brokers

 * Licensed Attorneys

 * Referrers and Representatives

 * Commodities Dealers

 * Other Collaborative Venturers

 * PROJECTS in TRANSITION (Refer with introductory Information and NDAs):

      - Mines – Gold, Silver, PGM, Other Metals, Coal, Uranium, Gravel, Other Minerals, with US $1B++ in-ground assets

      - Energy Fields – Oil, Gas, Shale, Wind, Solar, Geothermal, with US $1B++ in-ground assets

      - Land – with Water / Grazing / Mineral / Air Rights, with or without Buildings, with US $100MM++ appraisals

      - Turnkey Income Properties – Apartment Complexes, Malls, Office Buildings, Industrial Parks, growing to US $10MM++ Net Operating Income

      - Businesses – High-Tech – growing to US $30MM++ Annual Net Profits

SCHEDULE ASAP:  Email us for a meeting or showing.  We'll have a laptop, printer and web-enabled phone & tablet for last-minute scheduling or changes, and printing NDAs and maps.

VISIT / PICK-UP / OUR LOCATION 9/24-30:  886 West Galveston, Chandler AZ 85225, with Swimming Pool, Jacuzzi, Gas Grills, Kitchen and a pull out double Bed for overnight guests.

FULL INFORMATION:  recently updated on us at Collaboration.ProsperSystems.biz

 * If you have not already, please complete our confidential, collaborative Profile App:
      – Download from Abcrr.ProsperSystems.biz (complete both Sheets I and A),
      – Be the First to Receive project announcements and important updates.

 * Our New Project Profile App is downloaded from Aproject.ProsperSystems.biz (complete both Sheets I and A)

 * JOIN our Collaboration Group at Group.ProsperSystems.biz

 * The rest of our "public" links are at Links.ProsperSystems.biz

SEE YOU or your REFERRALS in ARIZONA!

Best Regards,

PROSPER SYSTEMS, LLC • Kenton H Johnson<NextTrip@ProsperSystems.biz>, Founding Member
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USA 302-KentonJ (GoogleVoice 302-536-6866 w/text; forwards to mobile, tablet, SkypeIn, SkypeVideo)

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** Collaborators are mainly Intermediaries, Brokers, Attorneys and Consultants – see Collaborator.ProsperSystems.biz.