your understanding about "DEATH OF THE CONSUMERS" .. cite examples (at least 3000words)
What is Consumer and Prosumer?
Who are they?
When did it start?
“The Death of the Consumers”, it is not literally that Consumers is already dead. But for me in our generation Consumers now have already evolved also and they are called now “The Prosumers”. So as I continue this wonderful topic there are things or questions that bind in my mind as I go along with this and this are:
What is CONSUMER and PROSUMER?
Who are they?
When did it start?
Where?
Those questions that bind in my mind are the four (4) WH questions that can help me and us to really understand first the true meaning out of it, as we continue the topic of the DEATH OF THE CONSUMERS and maybe as we tackle these questions we will be able to answer our mean thought and help us learn a lot in this topic and the things that happen in our environment because as we live here in this world there are things we don’t know but they changing now so we must be aware of it because who know it maybe can help us or affect on us a lot in our daily life and wonderful Job opportunity. So first:
What is CONSUMER and PROSUMER?
Consumer is a broad label for any individuals or households that use goods and services generated within the economy. The concept of a consumer occurs in different contexts, so that the usage and significance of the term may vary.
A Consumer plays a vital role in the economical system of a nation because in the absence of the effective demand that emanates from them, the economy virtually collapses. Mahatma Gandhi said a customer is the most important visitor in our premises. He is not dependent on us, we are on him. He is not an interruption to our work; he is the purpose of it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer
Prosumer is a portmanteau formed by contracting either the word professional or producer with the word consumer. The term has taken on multiple conflicting meanings: the business sector sees the prosumer (professional–consumer) as a market segment, whereas economists see the prosumer (producer–consumer) as having greater independence from the mainstream economy. It can also be thought of as converse to the consumer with a passive role, denoting an active role as the individual gets more involved in the process. More recently, in the mental health field, the word "'prosumer'" has come to mean "consumer/provider," also known as a "peer provider," such as a peer support specialist or other mental health consumer who also provides peer support mental health services (background on peer-run mental health services). The word "Prosumerise" has been coined by Widality to represent the merging of the IT and mobility requirements of the prosumer, consumer, and enterprise.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosumer
“Consumer” is the one who are just the person or individual that the one who use the product, goods or services or shall we say they are just the users in our community Mahatma Gandhi said: “He is not an interruption to our work; he is the purpose of it.” Consumers have no power to roll over in a certain company or a certain business. Maybe they do have the power but not that so power that can manage things in a certain products or business, yes it is right consumers is the purpose of it because consumers are the one will use the products, in a business they are the reason why Big Company invent and working such thing that can help in our society. So let us continue about the “Prosumer” (Professional / Producer-consumer) is this case consumer turns into prosumer which means that prosumers have the power they are Professional and Producer they are the one who demand in our community or in a certain company or business, prosumer “denating an active role as the individual gets more involved in the process.” They are part now in a certain business and company, prosumer are the main provider of the company, with the help of the prosumers company may have the advantage for them to be able to know what the needs in our community. And they do have the other term of it is called “Prosumerise” (Prosumer, Consumer, and EnterPrise) making it cool that they do have really now the power to roll over our industry today.
And next is WHO question:
Who are they?
Yah, after all those things we have learned and tackle what is consumer and prosumer. Now we will going to proceed and to know who are this people, maybe now we have a big idea who are this people and yes you are right, yeah we are the one who could PROSUMERS and we are the CONSUMERS also but now we are in the new generation and this generation called “INFORMATION”, through this advance technology we people the one who provide and generate idea on it only they are the one who create it.
When did it start?
It is already started Hmm…. I guess around 2000’s up to this year and soon and soon, why I say so this year. Because base in our society (PHILIPPINES) we all know that our country 10 or 20 years gap to the other country maybe in others they are already Prosumers in early 90’s or 80’s this gap maybe because of the corruptions that we have in our country I’m not saying na “GINADAO-TAN NAKO ATONG COUNTRY” but I’m just saying the reality, it hurts because it is true(nn). It is already started so we people now have the power to demand the business or nay companies that having their own product and help them generate new idea for them they could help in our society also (nn) vice versa we help them and they help us also, we will just pray that they will not doing such things that so could “CORRUPTION”. We that are living in the same country same blood and same faith we should help each other to rise up in poverty and be equal.
Where?
Where? By the power of our technologies, gadgets and many more. For example Computer with internet connection, mobile phones, TV, Radio etc. that help us a lot to have a communications between the BUSINESS MAN and the CONSUMERS / PROSUMERS.
WE ARE NO LONGER CONSUMERS BUT A PROSUMERS!
“THINK or IMAGINE it, and we can do it.”
GODBLESS US
Make Meaning
Building a new FUTURE.
To quote a small part of this video, he says that:
“if you make meaning, you will probably make money. But if you set out to make money, you will probably
not make meaning and you won’t make money”
As most of us dream as students and future professionals we are all dreaming to start our own business, it is
important that we acquire the proper mindset of a Technopreneur. And this includes having the right
reasons for starting a company.
Making meaning implies adding significance or value to something; doing something that is novel, relevant,
appropriate, worthwhile and highly useful.
For example, in the context of Bangkok, you probably agree that opening another spa or internet cafe
does not create much value, while coming up with an innovative traffic and transport concept for the metropolis
represents a significant value proposition. As Guy Kawasaki points out, making meaning is all
about making our world a better place.
http://hermorningafter.blogspot.com/2010/12/guy-kawasaki-make-meaning.html 
At first above all else we as a member of this society or community we ourselves know who we
are but in the reality as a students or ordinary people we don’t know if we are really a TECHNOPRENEUR or
something, until we are belong in that certain name: “Technopreneur” and generate idea, business plan
or doing on it as a business man. There really is only one question a big, BIG QUESTION we should ask to
ourselves before we start at any new venture in our LIFE:
[size=18]Do we need to make meaning?[/size]
Meaning is not just about earning MONEY or something all about money, to have a POWER,
a power to control something to make it as a robot out of it or controlling the things that surrounds you
or PRESTIGE or just for the a reputation for you family sake to be considered as a selfish way of thinking.
Those are all NONE-SENSE for a person or certain companies in our society or community;
maybe they are now existed but if only we (people) have the power to judge them or to evaluate them
for me they are all vanish. Among the meaning “MEANING” are to:
1. Make the world a better place.
2. Increase the quality of life.
3. Right a wrong.
4. Prevent the end of something good.
http://www.enotalone.com/article/6447.html
Those are all mention in the video in titled “ART OF THE START: MAKE MEANING” by GUY KAWASAKI, before we
will elaborate the four (4) “MAKE MEANING” some kind a strategies we must first to know:
Who is GUY KAWASAKI?
GUY KAWASAKI is a managing director of Garage Technology Ventures, an early-stage venture capital
firm and a columnist for Entrepreneur Magazine. Previously, he was an Apple Fellow at Apple Computer, Inc.
Guy is the author of nine books including Reality Check, The Art of the Start, Rules for
Revolutionaries, How to Drive Your Competition Crazy, Selling the Dream, and The Macintosh Way. He
has a BA from Stanford University and an MBA from UCLA as well as an honorary doctorate
from Babson College.
My “Real Story”
Currently, I’m a founding partner at Garage and co-founder of Alltop as well as a husband, father,
author, speaker, and hockey addict. Alltop is an online magazine rack that I hope you’ll check out—you’ll
probably enjoy Innovation.alltop, for example. I’ve also written nine books. My latest is Reality Check.
You can read about my other eight books here.
http://www.guykawasaki.com/about/index.shtml
Make the world a better place.
To make the world a better place is we should do things and build things that are not harmful to all
of us the People and Environment. A place that we can call MINE or US, we should establish business that are
useful to all people and make something are so meaning to our life, in our daily lifestyle as we
live here in this world. A business that can benefit both BUSINESS and PEOPLE and special our ENVIRONMENT too.
Increase the quality of life.
Many truly great innovations in the history of humanity greatly increased the quality of people's life.
Can you imagine how our daily lives have changed by the invention of the personal computer? What about
mobile phones or the internet? How about air conditioning or electricity, not to mention airplanes,
cars, and other means of transport. We need to ask: How can we increase the quality of life of our customers
with what we're doing? Over 100 million products sold testify to how the iPod has increased the
quality of life for music lovers around the world.
-ire's morning|Techy
We must not be motivated by making MONEY, but we must be motivated by changing the world to make people to be
more creative and more productive to increase the QUALITY OF LIFE. The most important thing is when we are waking
up in the early morning and then thinking a new things a new adventure in our life.
Right a wrong.
Take note of problems you encounter as you go through life on a list and look for ways to turn these
problems into business or innovation opportunities. What annoys you and needs to be fixed? What does not
work as well as it should? What is poorly designed and needs improvement? What unmet and often
unarticulated need has not yet been addressed by the market? What really sucks and could be changed
for the better by you? Online music is a good example: P2P-sharing services allowed people to
easily find their favorite songs online. In October 2003, Apple righted another wrong by offering a legal way
to acquire songs online with the opening of the iTunes Music Store.
-ire's morning|Techy
To set things in a POSITIVE way always, convert the PROBLEMS into SOLUTION and a STRENGTH.
Solution will never exist without the word PROBLEM. Optimistic can help us a lot to move ahead BOLD
and CONFIDENT thinking everything will be go through in our life.
Prevent the end of something good.
As the world changes, people vary in their perception of which of these changes are good and bad.
Is there something good, beautiful, or wonderful that is about to come to an end due to changes in the environment?
If you just cannot stand the fact that something good is about to end, turn the problem into an
opportunity to start a business, an innovation project or a social movement. For example, in Africa,
national parks with premium safari lodges help to preserve the beauty of the African wilderness while
creating job opportunities for the locals and tourism income for the country and its entrepreneurs.
-ire's morning|Techy
Go! Aal iz wel!
Prevent the end of a something good, yes indeed we must go through of what is good and improve it and build it
something that is more than before. We must not be contented the things that we have, we have to move smoothly
in a way that can benefit the WORLD.
"Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success," said
Thomas Edison. Like Guy Kawasaki, the world's greatest inventor understood: To make money, first focus your
innovation efforts on making meaning. Make it your prime motivation to engage in creativity and
your main judgment criteria for innovation.
-ire's morning|Techy
http://hermorningafter.blogspot.com/2010/12/guy-kawasaki-make-meaning.html
Done!
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Identify and discuss Trends and Opportunities in convergence (at least 2000 words with image/s)
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Convergence[/size]
is the approach toward a definite value, a definite point, a common view or opinion, or toward a
fixed or equilibrium state. In mathematics, it describes limiting behavior, particularly of an infinite
sequence or series.http://www.answers.com/topic/convergent-evolution
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convergence
New services, new technologies, new market structures, new business models, and less stringent
regulations. Convergence has brought change not only in the way we live, but also in the way we
think. But then, not everything is rosy about convergence. The truth, however is, the
challenges have to be met. There is no run-away option.
There are two important identifiable trends here. One, the selection of media is no longer an
either-or. It is a mix-n-match. Two, the control over the message is steadily moving from the source
to the receiver.
Now, that itself is convergence for many. But then, there is much more to the word.
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Convergence is a cool word, with lots of marketing value attached to it. It looks good in
advertisements and sounds impressive in tag lines. Network, terminal end, telecom, datacom,
broadcasting, IT, voice, data, video, computer telephony… there are as many definitions
as there are stakeholders.
Without going into the specifics like what should be included and what should not, we give
a definition here which is quite broad, all embracing, and so naturally not very helpful for those
who want to jump to examples. Like modern physicists, it tries to put a unified picture,
a sort of Theory of Everything (ToE). Yet, one will not be surprised if some still find it correct
yet inadequate, the most common phrase to describe all these definitions.
Convergence refers to the blurring of dividing lines among traditionally distinct products and
services, technologies, markets, industries, and regulatory structures.[size=18]Concern:[/size]
While no one can deny that convergence is happening today, there is a wide gap between
the perception and reality regarding the nature, extent, and pace of convergence at different levels
such as infrastructure, consumer devices, markets, and regulation. For example, while more of
the talks revolve around accessing Internet from cellphone or through television sets, they are not a
large-scale commercial reality anywhere in the world. But a less glamorous convergence like
Intelligent Networks at the carrier infrastructure level or Internet over cable (not through TV, but
through cable modem and PC) are realities.
This has primarily three reasons. One, the network has to be ready for offering new services and
capability before the end user can access it through fancy consumer devices with new capabilities.
Two, the service providers have traditionally been in one business (telecom, broadcasting, etc.)
and they want to expand the scope of that business by diversifying to other services or offering newer
services. Hence, they are adopting newer technologies for the purpose. Last but not the
least, selling to the service providers is more focused and the selling cycle time is lower. For consumers,
it requires a lot of marketing effort.
http://voicendata.ciol.com/content/convergence/199120108.asp[size=18]Convergence Presumption:[/size]
Theory proposing that collective behaviour is the result of people with similar interests coming together
and acting upon those interests. People at a sporting event, for example, often have similar class,
racial, or residential backgrounds to which they strongly identify. Consequently, they are likely to respond
similarly to precipitating agents. Aging Coffee Break. . .
