Letter to Jeff Jarvis, Author of What Would Google Do (WWGD)

"The Engineering Chapter"

 

Mr. Jarvis,

My name is Frank Bennardo and I am the founder of a unique company called Engineering Express.  We have been working for a long time on ways to revolutionize, systemize, and computerize the business of engineering.

I just finished reading your enlightening book, and bought four more copies for my newly formed ‘technology advisory board’.  I almost didn’t want to finish it, until I realized it keeps on going online.  I’m now a faithful follower and proponent of your blog and mindset.  I was excited to see that you mentioned architects in your book, but I think there’s a much bigger picture out there for the future of engineers who also can no longer live in their consulting business models of the past.

We have some revolutionary web creations that can change how engineering is presented to and used by the public, which we see working their way into places like the isles of the Home Depot, architects and other engineers, homeowners, field inspectors, building officials, just to name a few.  If we could simplify and catalog the questions of engineering, and give easily obtained answers away for free, the ‘side door’ revenue of networking, targeted advertising, pre-engineered referral work, and minimum to no help engineering ordering from our firm would be industry-changing (we’re already living this model to a small extent).

We’ve recently started implementing many ideas in your book, blogging, creating widgets of our more complex online tools, and simplifying our processes, and our roadmap quickly targets us for national exposure.

I’m  writing in hopes that you will take interest in our campaign and recommend a direction, a contact, or maybe even write a blog about our achievements, and steer us toward our goal.

You can visit one of our current public tools (over 40 private ones are being re-coded now for free widgetbox distribution), at www.engexp.com/exos/tools.cfm.  We’ve perfected (and have a pentent pending on) a quick and easy way to bring engineering to the web in a video-game style interface.  Our decision machines are our next frontier (www.engexp.com/plex/window_plex.cfm), as well as our own WiKi, blogs, news, and client login wonderland, all being steered to a social networking concept (we could use some help there too!). 

I’d love to share our next generation of free online tools with you (and to places like engineering.com for that matter) as they come online, all inspired by you.  It’s our goal to take the formulas out of the textbooks and out of stuffy, expensive consultant’s offices, and light them up for the public using the latest technologies and free business models, work to modernize any online catalog that has a table or graph, and help navigate people through the maze of decisions in the construction industry like no one has done before.

Thank you for your time, my compliments  again on your book and your vision, and I hope to hear from you soon.

Frank L. Bennardo, P.E.

President

Engineering Express®

 www.engexp.com