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Monday, May 10, 2004
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VOLUME 1
ISSUE 11
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Help Write the Real History of the Dot Com Era
Did you work for a dot com, new media, or internet technology company? Are you an entrepreneur who founded your own technology company? The Dot Com Archive, a non-profit research project at the Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland is interested in hearing from you. Contribute your memories, thoughts and digital documents at www.creativedestruction.org.
By sharing your experiences with the project you can contribute to a greater understanding of the new economy workplace. We are particularly interested in hearing from female entrepreneurs and workers. The media have often described the dot com workplace as fundamentally different from the traditional corporate environment. The internet was supposed to change everything. Was this really true? And if so, did these changes mean greater opportunities for women? Was the dot com work environment really gender neutral?
In years to come, the Dot Com Era will be remembered as a watershed event in the history of American business and culture, on par with, if not more important than, other notable moments in American business history like the Roaring Twenties or the Railroad Boom of the mid-19th century. WorldWIT members have a unique opportunity to help write the history of this period, and to make sure that women are included. WorldWIT members (And their friends, female and male) are invited to our website (www.creativedestruction.org) to fill out a short questionnaire. You can also access our longer survey form there or at www.creativedestruction.org/home.html.
Our primary goal is to preserve a wide-ranging record of the Dot Com Era for future historians. The recollections of workers and entrepreneurs are an essential part of this record. We are also seeking business plans, emails, PowerPoint presentations, photos, promotional items, and any other digital or physical materials you may have that can help tell the story of individual companies. To see some of our growing collection of corporate documents relating to technology companies formed during the 1990s you can visit the Business Plan Archive at http://www.businessplanarchive.org/
If you have any questions about any aspect of the project, please contact either Dalit Baranoff (dbaranof@rhsmith.umd.edu) or David Kirsch (dkirsch@rhsmith.umd.edu), and thank you in advance for your willingness to help others learn from the past.
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