The document discusses how social media and online tools have changed business practices in Egypt and globally. It argues that yesterday, the business of Egypt was revolution, but today the business is business, as these new tools enable efficient and global virtual work, collaboration, and information sharing. The future is one of a "world without borders" where emerging nations and the new generation are no longer defined by traditional boundaries.

1. The Business of Egypt is Business
Now that the revolution is over, Egypt can look forward to a technical revolution.
Similar to the industrial revolution, or the Age of Enlightenment, or the Age of
Discovery of days gone by, the Netopian Age beckons.
Yesterday, the business of Egypt was revolution. Today, the business of Egypt
is business.
I will cite my monograph on the importance of social media. The tools used to
bring about change are the same tools that can be used to bring about change.
Now, however, the change is no longer about shedding the past. Now the
change is embracing the future. That future is a nimbus on the horizon. The
monograph is called:
Social Media is the Medium: Greater than the sum of its parts.
Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Blogspot, and SlideShare. What do they all have in
common besides each other? They are greater than the sum of their parts.
Write something:
A proposal
A business plan
An RFP
A Constitution
Then,
Save the document.
Post it on your blog,
On Facebook,
On Slideshare.
Click the icons on

2. Your blog
On SlideShare
If viewers click the link to your blog, they are brought to your blog posting.
If viewers click the link to your SlideShare account, they are brought to your
SlideShare document.
The link will automatically appear on your Facebook page. There something
more potent will happen for you. A thumbnail of your document will appear.
Click the icon and the document will come up. The document can be read and
comments can be added. You will be notified by email that someone commented
on your document. You will be informed who commented on your document.
In addition to this, links will automatically appear on the home page of your
Linkedin account.
In addition to the potent tools that are obvious, your documents have provisions
for the inclusion of links. These links will send your readers to supporting
documents—and that is still not the limit to what you can do.
The printed word is a global event no longer limited to websites.
The printed word is now appearing on internet publications. Publications, which
include but are not limited to American English language publications, but are
expanded to include on-line newspapers and magazines from around the world
and in global languages. (Those who cannot speak a language can have the
information translated with a Google link.
The New York Times,
The Boston Globe,
Atlantic Monthly,
The Wall Street Journal,
The Telegraph,
The Economist,
The Globe and Mail,
The Washington Post, &

3. Newsweek make a comments section available. Not only are the articles you
write available for comment and review, you can write comments on the articles
written by others. You can click the icons on the article to provide links from your
Facebook page or Twitter account to the article. These articles can be read,
commented on, and responded to and all within minutes.
Websites like Linkedin offer the opportunity to create a Global Network of
business colleagues. Moreover, we’ve barely scratched the surface.
Yesterday, I posted Powerpoint presentations on SlideShare.
Yesterday, I should have posted a video on YouTube.
These tools are the virtual offices in use. They are in use globally.
Virtual offices,
Virtual teams,
Virtual project management,
Presentations,
Lectures,
Speeches,
Meetings, all on your computer screen.
If you have a Mac, they are available to you in transit. If using a Mac is not an
option, they are available to you on your iPad or your iPhone.
Consistent with the thesis, the business of Egypt is business: Meetings will not
be detested by the members of your staff who have work to do, but conducted
more efficiently by logging on to a virtual meeting. Documents, photos, contacts,
and other information will be shared within seconds.
No one will find it necessary (and cumbersome) to lug stuff to the conference
room.
Costs will be cut significantly by having information available through links rather
than through copies being handed out.
The business research, formerly the domain of the business research
department, is now a Google away

4. Information can be reviewed, commented on, verified, questioned and affirmed,
repudiated, or assigned for further review in moments.
Prep work for the meeting will take place in moments.
The tools that are available are not limited to home and office. Nor to your
company, industry, or locale. These tools will enable you to do business globally.
I posted two Powerpoint presentations to alert American business to the changes
in the world. They are:
Global Management: A shift in the paradigm of corporate America
& the Future of the G – 20 in Good Times and Bad.
Each can be viewed at http://slideshare.net/slimfairview
For additional information on business tools you can visit:
http://facebook.com
http://blogspot.com
http://linkedin.com
http://twitter.com
http://slideshare.net
To read additional monographs on management and business administration,
please visit my blog, Slimviews: http://slimviews.blogspot.com
Another monograph I posted, Egypt and others: A New World Order—a world
without borders is available in link form. However, I copy-pasted that monograph
into this one.
Egypt and Others--A New World Order: A World without Borders
The real problem in the US (and elsewhere) is a lack of understanding of the
concept of what is going on globally. The younger generation is no longer
embracing the customs of the past. What are the customs of the past? For one
thing, embracing the customs of the past is a custom of the past.
One thing that is very important to understand if the West is to get along with the
rest of the world. Many cultures have 3,000, 4,000…6,000 years of history,
custom, and culture to look back on. We have a bit over 200. This creates a

5. major difference between Americans and, for example, the Egyptians, The
Chinese, The Japanese, The Indians, and The Pakistanis and so on.
On the other hand, the aforementioned youth culture is very similar to American
culture in that both they and we are “forward looking.” As we cannot look to a
long past, we long for a future that will.
As this pertains to Egypt, we are in a unique position to understand the Egyptian
people. (Did someone say, 1776?)
Both America and the Middle East were part of a Colonial Empire.
In what is known in some parts of the world as the Colonial Rebellion of 1776, we
had aid from France and, that by extension, the French people. We did not look
upon France as the enemy because they supplied us with weapons. We looked
upon France as a nation that aided us in battle. Much the same way America has
aided the Egyptian people in their government’s efforts to protect the Egyptian
people from enemy soldiers.
Thus, as evidenced by the protests around America, the American people have a
shared perspective with the Egyptian people. (This does cause me to wonder
why Americans in Egypt would be afraid. I want to believe that the Egyptian
people see the American people as people who share in a belief.)
Hence:
The blogosphere is a world without borders; Facebook is a world without borders;
Twitter is a world without borders. Linkedin is a world without borders; SlideShare
is a world without borders, and, the new generation is a generation of a nation
without borders. This, I call Netopia.
We now have a world where emerging nations are no longer defined the way I
defined them on my ppt. presentation only a few months ago.
Global Management: A shift in the paradigm of corporate America at
http://slideshare.net
I touched on some aspects of the new way of doing business from a global
perspective but failed to see the absence of the borders in the new world. The
technosphere. The following links are to very short monographs related to the
above topic.
The Next Generation: Better Than Brand New

6. http://slimviews.blogspot.com/2010/12/next-generation-better-than-brand-
new.html
Managing Projects in the New Millennium
http://slimviews.blogspot.com/2010/09/managing-projects-in-new-millennium.html
The New Age Biz Wiz
http://slimviews.blogspot.com/2010/04/new-age-biz-wiz.html
Project Management of the –Oops! Gotta Run
http://slimviews.blogspot.com/2011/01/project-management-of-oops-gotta-
run.html
The new, the young, the future, is a world where communication is
instantaneously global. Questions asked an answered in moments.
Enough said? No. Enough said!
However, technology and education is not enough. There is also the Wisdom of
the Ages. Almost 50 years ago, my father told me a fable that applies to the
business world of today. Especially in the rapidly changing world of today.
The Business of Wisdom in Global Affairs -- A Fable
About 50 years ago, my father told me a fable. I don’t know its origin. I believe it
may have originated in Turkey or in the Middle East.
No doubt, he’d heard it from someone much older than he was when he heard it.
And older and wiser when he shared it with me. Thank you, Dad.
A long time ago, there lived a powerful king. He ruled vast lands with firmness
and fairness. However, the many city-states and principalities were ruled by
selfish and greedy men. They were constantly fighting wars over petty
grievances to disguise their true motive—greed. Therefore, the king issued an
edict banning such unjust wars. If they defied the edict, he would send his troops
in to vanquish the offender and seize his lands.
In one of the small countries, the young people had gathered to come up with a
plan to better the lives of the people. They concluded that the old people were a

7. burden and that they should all be put to death.
One young man, unable to allow his father to be killed, led him from the city in
the dead of night and hid him in a cave on the outskirts of the city.
The word spread to a neighboring land where a greedy prince called his advisors
together to discuss a plot to wage a war against the other land to grab their
wealth. They wrote the following letter:
Five generations ago, our people lent to your people 25 units of rope woven from
sand which you promised to return. Yet with each passing generation, your
promise has gone unfulfilled. Therefore, we must demand return of this rope or
we will be forced to send our armies to your land to retrieve it along with just
restitution.
When the leaders of the council received and read this letter, they panicked.
None had ever heard of the rope woven from sand nor knew anything about it.
The man who’d hid his father in the cave outside of town asked for the letter and
said he would return with a solution to the problem. He went to see his father.
His father said, “Write back. Say to them, we have many coils of rope. Some are
woven from sand but each is different. Send us a sample of your rope so we may
match it up with the rope that is yours and do justice by returning your rope.”
The young man returned to the council and they sent just such a letter.
When the evil prince received the reply, he turned to his advisers and said,
“There is still one old man left in their land. We will wait until he dies and try
again.”
Yesterday, the business of Egypt was revolution. Today, the business of Egypt
is business. Fortunately, Egypt has the people, the skilled people, the talented
people, and the experienced people, to rise to the challenge of setting the
engines of the new world order running even as we speak.
Good luck and sincerest regards,
Slim
P.S. Did I mention the email option? slimfairview@yahoo.com
Copyright © 2011 Slim Fairview