Papers & Presentations
New Web Publishing Tools and Procedures for Community Owned
and Operated Portals
Grame Barty Managing Director HarvestRoad
This paper will describe the emergence of new tools and processes to facilitate the growth of community or special interest owned and operated portals.
It shows how communities can establish a rapid, ubiquitous service level - including methods to aggregate content, provide personal web pages and authoring applications on line, individual small business shop fronts and ecommerce engines, privelged document distribution and or on line libraries for hundreds of thousands of documents for public access and retrieval.
These methods rely on the browser as the access mechanism with all permissions for applications and content being delivered on an authorised basis from the web server. Cost savings for the community in deployment and management and ongoing maintenance are exponential as well as providing new levels of participation and therefore ownership. These methods also represent a new capability in archiving and managing community historical records.
Grame graduated from The Royal Military College of Australia in 1977. He specialised in Communications Intelligence and Electronic Warfare in his 10 years as a commissioned officer in the Australian Regular Army. During that time he was assigned to NATO forces in Europe, was Dux of the Royal Australian Corps of Signals Advanced Communications Course and commanded the 72nd Electronic Warfare squadron.
Prior to founding HarvestRoad – a high innovative web publishing software technology company – he held senior sales, marketing and management positions in Fujitsu Australia, Nortel Australia and Telecom New Zealand helping to start up the telecommunications sales, research and manufacturing operations of those companies.