7 ‘tips’     …for know, synchronize, and meet each other, better, under this unedited process…e-friendship. _____________ Principles of Management on YFS’s contacts, new e-friends and his / her complexities, in: joint venture, invitations, teleworks, co-sponsoring on solidarity demands, alliances, collaborative works on networks, cross-cultural understanding, global citizenship… human interactions on the Internet (and survive the ‘infodiluve’ or over-communication).   “7 Tips…”Free Versions Available                                                                  Portuguese    Spanish    French   Italian    Dutch                                                      ===========================================   “Para eso tenemos el arte, para que la realidad no nos mate”                R. Fortunato (Cineasta). Entrevista CDN. 22 Enero, 2004         Everybody wants visibility, solidarity and obtain, exciting interactions on line, but everybody needs to survive this particular system by e-learning.   Cross-cultural interactions, supposes different concepts and priorities, in critical subjects as: time’s perception, space’s perception,   and landscape on the internet.   How to manage time? Time is opportunity. Opportunities are chances for be better: worker, artist, citizen, father, lover, politician, researcher, technician, person…   The word processors get one marvelous control to our impulses: the word counter.   Time is money, and implies share with somebody a fragment to the life, privacy and institutional know how on line.   The internet, the human interaction on networks, permits a rich opportunity for understand, learn, share, teach, and empowerment communities, individuals, organizations, entrepreneurs, governments for cooperative efforts oriented to goals, think it, by arise quality of life, effectively, and collaboration. We are very motivated to participate on this scenery, but we get boundaries - biological, technological, economical, time available, etc- for give you all the answers that you need.   The internet is a collective experience if you react only as a simple customer on this biggest information’s ‘supermarket’ probably you’ll never teach, share or interact with the most relevant element on your soul: your brain, your particular histories, local details or micro history, because rutinary life gets a powerful connection for teach to others…but they need your honest desire for share, without mask, beyong the crazy and useful things about mega-starts, trivia, leisure activities that not permits popular appropriation from benefits derivated from new technologies on human development.   If you want, you’ll be a co-author, rebel, unsatisfied, creative, sensate, sensitive, experimental and provisional on the internet and networks cooperation, helping to others to use your speech, essays, comments, suggestions, perceptions as essential material for understand and transform our passionate, challenge, contrast, inequitable or asymmetric world.   The following inventory and suggestion are motivated by our genuine interest to avoid misunderstanding between us, in this new friendly relationship, so called e friendly, as first steep for create and grow, mutual confidence, values, efforts and hope for give a peace a chance on plural and multicultural societies on the planet.   The basis document (7 Tips) for create this web page, was a public letter, running on our favorites web communities, networks and weblogs. Its very difficult try to perceive, understand, and trust in “invisible” persons, into a chat, web community or project. Particularly, trust, work together, and make significant contributions to most, funny, serious, complex and human internet, are need for be conscious or identify to someone as personal friend, collaborator, aliases, partner or sources of information. We select this person thinking in ourselves, our values, cosmovision, priorities, and public role on the networks, created by people who believe in internet for solidarity, tool for exchange and optimize quality of life, from communities, vulnerable sectors and micro and small entrepreneurs, essentially into non industrialized regions, countries, continents.   Anticipated thanks for your valuable comments, suggestions and proposals. Only together is possible a multidimensional or kaleidoscopical feedback in current days. Together, with our particular subjectivity, imagination, capacity for serve to raised projects, programs and organizations, probably we are making a rescue for the classical tradition, founded on Renaissance, in modernity’s early times, or retaking Ortega’s vision, opening our last century, against specialists and their very limited capacity for link, infrequent factors into their methodologies.    What about YFS, as concrete person or author?. Generalization and pursuit to contributions on the Internet.   The information related to us this available one in line from 1998 to date, this was the process and attitudinal changes relates to new technologies, as auxiliar tool for creativity, social or civil services, subjectivity’s exploration, productivity or business.   These experiences are not particularlly exciting or originals, but permits access to an evolution from technofobic mind to new technologies activism, no thinking only in individual results, better into communitary life, in a poor or non industrialized nation on Caribbean region. Next as complementary information details the URLs in which by the nature of the oximoron’s activity.   Personnel: http://www.yoefsantos.com   Already of personal way but, I will say to them that I am consulting writer and - managemental, virtual and academic on full time, since1984 being able to locate some of our contributions on line, if you type in: Yoe F. Santos,  in any metasearch(yahoo.com, google.com, kartoo.com, altavista.com, surfwax.com).   If the wished personal information needs more organized, from the point of view of thematic contributions, then you can obtain it in the data bases and  specialized  internal searchs on:   MISTICA Project & Virtual Community  http://www.funredes.org/mistica   Information Society on Dominican Republic http://www.funredes.org/socinfodo   Alojo! Multicultural Web Space  http://www.alojo.org     Yoe F. Santos http://www.yoefsantos.com   Cultural Center 4 Audio-visual Exchange (CC4AVE) http://www.cciav.org   "Pupila Insomne”. Publishing & Consulting Multimedia Agency  http://www.pupilainsomne.com   Utopia & Texts. Managemental, Virtual and Academic consultants http://www.utopiaytexto.com   II. YFS. Life Styles, Attitudes and cosmovision.   In all those events, the weight of the chance, the needs, the circumstances are definitives. The time is a cost, every second which we delayed our contact with the reality, harms to us in the quality of the decision making, makes us waste time, that is just like money, prestige and well-being, when speech of social or economic, productive investments, as individual or citizen, or contribution jeopardizes with the sensitivity and the well-being of the other, as it happens with the generous capacity to share in the voluntary civil service, the organizations of the civil society, or the intellectual work in his amplest range of slopes to contribute a grain from global peace and multilateral understanding, human and natural diversity, the tolerance, the democracy, the prosperity or visibility of the vulnerable groups in a concrete society, in a vecindario, municipality, region or anywhere in the world, depending on the tribunes to which each has access uno/a of us and we.   NO of those tasks by their complexity, can fructify from the narcissism, nor ‘the solitude On her or his own room’ paraphrasing to Borges. The writers need hearings, the interlaced communities ‘convites’, collective meetings, hands for crystallize their dreams, in such sense the Internet, the popular appropriation of new technologies -in the leisure, the work, institutional fortification, the participation in networks and the visibility of its histories, cosmovisiones, priorities or interests- as individuals, thought and felt with own head they offer to the human beings who resist to apostatize of such condition, a window of action and friendly, fertile, exciting participation, in the new learnings and kind of literacies of century XXI, for that reason we are even here. The sum of all diverse interactions in some point, sometimes, will contribute to sense and passion to our respective existence, impossible to legitimize, without the presence and the coexistence with the other and the other, with their otherness, in its multidimensionality.   I don't believe in pureness: blood pureness, race pureness or fronzen ideologies. The hope, the utopy, the life and freedom on the earth, today and on future, depend of our generation…Together, we are going do it, better than ever!!!   III. YFS. Compatible Subjects and Vocational Interests on Internet.   The present is a formal self-introduction, in the this particular list and virtual community, for one caribbean author, Yoe F. Santos, in January, 2004. In this like in other communities, networks and lists in which participate, the policy of motivation, alliances and collaborative or cooperative networks or works, of the same one, as citizen , as institutional IS the one of not adding itself, with its time either opinion, to particular, nor militant, nor religious or commercial visions, to consciously choose to prioritize, to talk and to propose joints of: general interest, relative to the human development.   IV. Thematic priorities YFS.   Shared in common teleworks methodologies, networks; aesthetic; culture and alternative; philosophy - centuries XIX, XX and XXI -; semiologic speeches or researchs; Literature; arts; e-translation; collaborative work; e- learning and cooperative challenges in new paradigms; Afro-cultures; Afro-caribbean cultures; micro and small companies; theory and cultural criticism; research methodologies; cultural services and good on global symbolic markets; education; public and municipal policies on culture and leisure; mass medias; alternative medias; communitary medias; telecenters and rural cultures; micro and small companies in paises of the Third World; audio-visual; it fights against the discrimination to the North and the South; revaluation of the human rights; migratory flows and global citizenship; the cultural diversity; South-south cooperation, options for multicultural  and to transdisciplinar dialogues; participatives modalities of democracy; roles of the organizations of the civil society (OSC) and the creativity, in the interactive channels, attended, by: the heap of social sciences, the administrative humanities and sciences, and the new technologies of the information and the communication (ICTs) in non industrialized countries.     V. YFS. The ample world of the personal limitations to the participation in dialogues and debates: NOT always, nor in everything, I participate.   To the margin of the subjects and the conections or implicancies, taxatively enumerated previously, we will respond, neither virtual nor vital provocations, invitations, convites... In all those events, the weight of the chance, the necessities, the circumstances is definitive.   The time is a cost, every second which we delayed our contact with the reality, harms to us in the quality of the decision making. Not to optimize, not to fly over on the emergencies, ideological battles, furious and our own selfcenter view points, make us waste time, that is just like: money, capacities to serve, to confront, to include/understand and to transform the reality, prestige and well-being, when one thinks about social or economic investments, productive, or from the strictly mercurial point of view, like shared in common solidarity fields. To find a balance in such direction is the present life-guard, in the managemental competitions of  XXI Century. Somebody said and I share it totally: "a life, is sufficiently long, if it is known to how live it" we have this to give, to serve, to generate security and proposals us to humanize our surroundings, being every one only the people in charge of the final balance of his (ours) own existence.   To administer risk, time, movement, strategies to survive the sobrecommunication (or to sail in infodiluve of 300 to 800 e-mails by day) with but of 75% like  junk mail and the institutional and managemental life - the nonvirtual premises- local-local, or face to face encounters, are the main motivations to in line moderate (and sometimes to disable) our presence on the internet. Reason why I request anticipated excuses if I take sometimes in responding the PERSONAL correspondence, feeling and acting under our today-here-now.     VI. YFS. Languages available for contents, readings & on line interchange.   Ahhhh, but the important thing you can send texts to him, original or not in anyone of the following languages: English, Spanish or any Latin Romanic or Neolatins languages (French, Portuguese, Italian, Catalan, Basque, Galician, Rumanian) on the same matters and preoccupations indicated in the paragraphs relative to our priorities in the virtual communities and the Internet, in general sense.   VII. YFS. Specific personal expectations and desires joining into this list or virtual community.        I believe that but the important thing in any relation that is half-opened, like an invitation to penetrate and to participate, is to have the entereza to live without you chewed, to contribute so much as it is possible and to be continued threading learnings, motivations, to include/understand and to transform the situations on paradigmal transition: starting being perfect strangers, to finish being friends or close friends, it does not concern whichever oceans, commitments, languages or bureaucratic difficulties mediate like the conspirador ocean, against genuine desire and right to know us, to imply to us, to collaborate, to console each other, and to continue beating unpublished footpaths in the proposals/actions for keep helping to builda democratic, participative, humanist and solidarity, Internet.   The excellence and the perfection were the only attributes that the Gods to the human beings denied, but as much you as I, we were not satisfied, with losing them and for that: we fought daily, against our own ignorance, prejudices, ethnocentrisms and temptations to take the new problems from the humanity, being based us for its interpretation, in the old inherited traditions of the previous paradigm or in the law of the smaller effort.   If we tried it to to renew themselves daily, to doubt permanently, to read the news of the megamedias between lines and guessed right is the best thing than we can give the present humanity to him, and the generations on future” Where is the place where kids are going to play?”(Maná) and “ You are not guilty for nothing” (Manu Chau) suitable passions to close this reflection.   The mediocrity watchs and act as global or local gang, in more of a corner of the world even in each one of us, those that we say its hateful- to maintain it under control, even the own one, is the first one to have for the life in community.   Talent, Criticism, Friendship!!   CC4AVE Caribbean Headquarter     Cyberspace January, 2004