What is 360q.com?
How did the whole things get started?
It all started in 1995, when I first made
exploration with Internet. I knew then Internet was an
avenue whereby I could get connected with the global village - sharing and
exchanging ideas and experience. With zero knowledge about how Internet worked,
especially designing a homepage, I got help from Geocities communities, guiding and
coaching me in designing my homepage. My first homepage was born - QuaSyLaTic
Thinking Model : www.geocities.com/Athens/5621.
Since then I met many many Cyber-friends and there are good number
of visitors coming to my site - a site where I shared my views, ideas and
observations of my inner worlds and the world around us. There are a great
diversity of topics - organization, management, TQM, ISO 9000,
Reengineering, Health Safety Environment, Learning Organization, Human
Resources development, Stock Market, Investment, Business, Communities
building, children, families, institutions ..... In short, we are talking
and focusing on the necessary knowledge and skills in enhancing our life -
individual, organizational, society, communities and our global village
with greater synergy and wisdom.
I have natural inclination towards coaching and mentoring. There are
quite a number of Cyberfriends who seek guidance and challenges from this
QuaSyLaTic writer. At times when I was lost or down, I sought coaching from
others.
Virtual Communities Organizer
With more and more readers and visitors to my first websites, I
started organizing virtual communities, encouraging and facilitating
members to share and interact with each other. I learned and observed that
most members prefer to "listen" and only a small handful take
the initiative or leadership to open up, put forward their views. This
seems to be similar behavior and pattern in many discussion forum or
virtual communities.
A new idea was born : the need to REFLECT and gain INSPIRATION to
make us wiser, after all, not all leaders or talkers can paint a good
future world to inspire this Global Village!
QuaSyLaTic Reflection and Inspiration Corner
A new site was created, experimenting with another free hosting
service provider.
Being an amateur on webpage design, having my own professional
career to take care of and limited finance, the result from using the free
website was not encouraging. There are limitation in the features
provided, making the site rather un-friendly to users / members.
Furthermore it lacked a professional touch on overall presentation and
format.
www.360q.com
To bring life to Reflection and Inspiration Corner, monetary
investment and learning web-design are required. A unique website with its
own domain name was constructed - www.360q.com.
A subscription fee is charged to members, not just to cover expenses
in maintaining a commercial website and as compensation for time and
effort made, but also to attract serious
reflection of many souls who want to rekindle their burning candles, even
though they can be feeble fire. There are others who are charging ahead with
spotlights, need quality moments to reflect, less the spotlights point
towards a direction that may not bring about the intended results.
Why 360q.com?
Readers and visitors have grown accustomed to my coined term -
QuaSyLaTic. Its footprint is present in many parts of the Cyberspace.
Certainly it is too long a name for a domain-name. After some search, 360q.com was chosen, with "q" signifying
QuaSyLaTic and 360 signifying a holistic perspectives to things, a circle,
or a reinforcing quality loop.
Where are we heading?
First, it is the belief in the power of Reflection and Inspiration -
leading each entity (individual or organization) towards self-empowerment
and self-actualization. A new world can then be co-created collectively
as we become wiser.
Reflection and inspiration will eventually lead to action -
hopefully effective towards shared visions - where there are application
of collective wisdom. The connection between Reflection and Effective
Action is the Process of Coaching. As membership increases, there will be
need for some members to become coaches to others.
From reflection by individuals, slowly we establish platform for
Learning Communities to take place. Communities of Learners, Practitioners
and Builders will then be in the marking.
Yours QuaSyLaTicly
Andrew Wong
June, 2001
eMail : andrew@360q.com
(More preferred),
andrewwhs@hotmail.com
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