At the iBA, we’ve been working on programs and new technologies that will ultimately optimize your online experiences. We know that that sounds like a lofty promise, prelude to some too good to be true promise – that is aimed at selling you something. It isn’t - and our promise might be too good for you, I don’t know; but you are welcome here and we are hoping your time spent with us helps you.

Well, back in 1999, when we founded the iBA, we adopted our Charter:

“To promote, preserve and protect the rights and privileges of the online citizen.”

Great mission statement! Hasn’t changed and isn’t going to.

Reality has just taken us around to the server and network side for the last seven years (1999-2006). Yes, we have continually provided support and resources to public communication and public service enterprises, but weren’t able to deliver any substantial programs or direct services that really matched up to our ambitions.

It’s bothered me, but I understand that to bring something into the online environments of a small number of people is just as difficult as exposing it to large numbers – only success kills you when you aren’t set up to handle more than 50 transactions a day.

When we conducted the NAB 2000 Global Internet Broadcasting Demonstration everything came to a grinding halt for two months after. It was all we could do to collect the sponsor’s equipment and get it back to them, answer the emails of viewers, producers, television networks, and vidiots who wanted to learn all about Internet Television! We opened ibaglobal.com as the Internet Broadcasting Network portal and started sifting through the long list of individuals who had been kind enough to contact us.

That experience drove us fine tune the CPD (Customer Prevention Departments). Not implying that we wanted to treat those who had made contact with us – on the contrary, we wanted to fulfill any promise we made at the HOME page level – and reduce the number of new registrants.

The community started on a FrontPage HOME page (we had three administrators – each acting as a remote “channel” of community management. That worked fine when we were three.

In May of 2000, after NAB, the community count was over 1300 – and that was killing me!

One of our Founders owned a powerhouse software company that had its legacy in mainframe manufacturing platforms. Prior to getting involved in the iBA that Founder had migrated foundation code into a JAVA Super Folder Online Community platform. Guess what? That platform has been underneath the iBA ever since.

It has also proven an effective infrastructure for things like the iBA-Novasoft Hippa compliant Electronic Medical Records Management Platform – to my knowledge the most secure, cost effective, and robust online EMR service out there.

The platform can deal with over 12 Million transactions a day and has scalable throttling to handle overloads.

It has been used in small public service projects as well, where online communities of several thousand members interact with each other and millions of visitors.

We’ve built online universities, corporate communications, Marketing and Sales Force Management, Event Planning, and even produce television programs and feature films using the platform.

Wait! Isn’t this supposed to be an article about Personal Internet Broadcasting? It is! I’m telling you all this because I am not a computer programmer – and suspect that you are as far from a line of code as you comfortably want to be.

I am an individual using online computers to evangelize using Internet Broadcasting. My goals and needs in communication and enterprise management are probably close to yours.

The difference is that I’m not intimidated by server side constructions like online communities, online buying and selling machines, or even web page enterprise management. And I have had a blessed life. You watched Star Trek and saw the USS Enterprise go into warp speed with a white line around the ship – then you say the imaging process improve (my US Patent # 5, 012,396 grounded the development of srgb lighting and camera calibration technology – then the lighting system I sold to Image G studios/Paramount took the white outline away!) – you also watch a thousand television networks everyday who use VIDESSENCE/srgb lighting and camera calibration technologies to set up their studio environments. But I digress!

I’m just an individual, like you who wants to optimize the quality and potential returns that can be received from my work in online environments.

I’ve seen what personal mastery of Internet Broadcasting is capable of doing for the individual. It can collect friends and family in a closed online community. It can deliver education from elementary to Mastery level – and I’m not talking about wall paper credentials – I’m talking about quality high education. In today’s competitive job market – you are only as good as your online presentation – and that is usually underdeveloped. If you are an independent business owner and you haven’t developed a personal Internet broadcasting program for your career and business, what are you waiting for?

A number of our affiliates have driven us to develop pre-packaged personal iBA memberships. These memberships are presented in strata forms’, meaning a “Citizen” membership receives a generic iBAglobal space to use as their personal space. The individual has access to pre-formatted “Friends”, “Family”, “Student”, and “Career” communities. Actually there is no limitation to what a Citizen affiliate of the iBA can do with their space (as long as they abode by the iBA Rules of Conduct). The programs are also presented in excellent tutorial and training classes, all developed in the early higher education project days.

So, thanks for baring with us all these Internet years – feels like 120 – and holding on to the hope that online experiences are supposed to work for you not against you, the planet, and the greater good.

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