[11615] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Need Help Articulating Internet Benefits
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (baer@jessica.stanford.edu)
Mon Apr 11 17:14:02 1994
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 1994 09:25:30 -0700
To: com-priv@psi.com
From: baer@jessica.stanford.edu
Great! "Join the Internet and watch your employees learn skills and get new
jobs elsewhere on company expense!"
--Paul Baer
>>Could you help me out? What are the benefits you get from the net? I'm
>>especially interested in your experienced benefits of gopher, WAIS and WWW.
>>(Note: a benefit is not that I can do X, it's what X does for me.
>>Example business benefits: faster, cheaper, more effective than, make
>>money, career advancement or success, gain recognition; personal or
>>entertainment-type benefits: entertaining, interesting, pleasurable,
>>positive self-image)
>
>Answering this will be a piece of cake.
>
>I think simply said the greatest benefit the net has been to me is that it
>was a valuable asset in helping me accumulate the knowledge neccessary to
>change my career path.