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---
layout: default
title: about
published: true
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<h1>About BizFriend.ly</h1>
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<li><a href="#what">What's BizFriend.ly?</a></li>
<li><a href="#who">Who's it for?</a></li>
<li><a href="#what-do">What does it do?</a></li>
<li><a href="#why">Why are we building it?</a></li>
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<li><a href="#use">Can I use BizFriend.ly in my city?</a></li>
<li><a href="#license">How are the content and code licensed?</a></li>
<li><a href="#behind">Who's behind BizFriend.ly?</a></li>
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<h2 id="what">What’s BizFriend.ly?</h2>
<p>BizFriend.ly is a go-to resource where small to mid-sized businesses can find empowering, easy-to-use online tools as well as a learning and sharing community that help entrepreneurs start, run and grow great businesses.</p>
<iframe src="//player.vimeo.com/video/80395212?byline=0&portrait=0" width="680" height="383" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe>
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<h2 id="who">Who’s it for?</h2>
<p>BizFriend.ly brings together small and mid-sized business owners, their employees, community experts and providers of web services all in one place to learn and share. BizFriend.ly is built for small business owners who are: </p>
<ul>
<li>focused on trying to run a business and don’t have time to find new tech</li>
<li>find learning tech too hard or time consuming</li>
<li>wanting to find out what tools other businesses use & see how you compare</li></ul></p>
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<h2 id="what-do">What does it do?</h2>
<p>BizFriend.ly puts the web to work for YOUR business.
<ul>
<li>Lessons are created for entrepreneurs by entrepreneurs, business experts, and community organizations.</li>
<li>Lessons provide entrepreneurs with an easy-to-follow, real-time, step-by-step guide to various programs and web-based services. <a href="/learn.html">Check them out!</a></li>
<li>Multiple lessons are available under each service, so users can pick the lessons that best fit their needs. <a href="/learn.html">Try one out!</a></li>
<li>Users are able to easily create their own lessons, to keep content up-to-date, and share their expertise with the community. <a href="/teach.html">Share the skills you’re best at!</a></li>
<li>BizFriend.ly is a safe, trusted platform for learning and sharing.</li></ul></p>
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<h2 id="why">Why are we building it?</h2>
<p>Charged with the topic of economic development, the Code for America fellows conducted <a href="http://cfakc.tumblr.com/process">a research and ideation process</a> and discovered a need for improving digital literacy in Kansas City as means to economic development.</p>
<p>Kansas City has an amazing business community with over <a href="http://www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/blog/2012/07/kansas-city-ranks-26th-for-small.html">48,000 small businesses</a>. That’s in the top 3% among the nation’s 938 metropolitan and micropolitan areas! Kansas City also has a digital advantage by becoming one of the most Internet-connected cities in the country through <a href="https://fiber.google.com/about/">Google Fiber</a> and other local initiatives, such as <a href="http://www.connectingforgood.org/">Connecting for Good</a>.</p>
<p>But amongst Kansas Citians, there’s a drop off in web skills beyond the very basics.<p>
<img src="img/digital-skills-chart.png" class="img-responsive">
<p>There’s room for improvement to to make Kansas City small business owners the most digitally literate in the country and BizFriend.ly will help achieve that.</p>
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<h2 id="use">Can I use BizFriend.ly in my city?</h2>
<p>A resounding yes!
While created with Kansas City, we’d love to see more cities use BizFriend.ly as it can help people learn and teach online absolutely anywhere. There are two types of resue:
<ul>
<li><span class="bold">Reaching Business Owners:</span> If you’d also like to reach business owners in your city, you can link directly to BizFriend.ly as it currently exists. Most of the content on BizFriend.ly is general to the web and usable by business owners regardless of location. If you’d like to add specific content about doing business with your city or state, you can add new content under Doing Business With Your City or Doing Business With Your State. Please also let us know if you’d like to start using BizFriend.ly in your community.</li>
<li><span class="bold">Reaching Other Audiences:</span> The core platform is built in a way that you can easily reuse BizFriend.ly to reach new audiences. You’d want to create a new brand, and likely new content focused on the audience. You can find out more about the technical side of reusing the platform on our <a href="https://github.com/codeforamerica/bizfriendly-web/">Github repository</a>.</li></ul> </p>
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<h2 id="license">How are the content and code licensed?</h2>
<p><ul><li>Code is <a href="http://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause">BSD3-clause licensed</a></li>
<li>Content created by users for lessons, skills, web services is <a href="http://creativecommons.org/about/cc0">CreativeCommons0</a> </li>
<li>Design including logo and brand are <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/deed.en_US">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License</a></li>
<li>Videos created by BizFriend.ly are <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/deed.en_US">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License</a></li></ul></p>
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<h2 id="behind">Who's behind BizFriend.ly?</h2>
<img class="img-responsive" src="img/about.png">
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<p>BizFriend.ly is a project created in collaboration with Kansas City, Missouri, the Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas and the 2013 Code for America Fellows.</p>
<p><span class="bold">The 2013 Code for America Fellows:</span> <a href="https://github.com/ondrae">Andrew Hyder</a> and <a href="http://arielkennan.com">Ariel Kennan</a></p>
<p><span class="bold">Mayor Sly James' Office:</span> John McGurk, David Rowe, and Ashley Hand </p>
<p><span class="bold">Mayor Mark Holland's Office:</span> Maureen Mahoney, Jason Banks, Brett Deichler, and Chris Cooley</p>
<p><span class="bold">Local Kansas City Funders:</span> The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, Google Fiber, Cerner, Sprint, Hall Family Foundation, Hallmark Corporate, and H&R Block Foundation</p>
<p><span class="bold">With contributions from:</span> <a href="https://github.com/SheilaLDugan">Sheila Dugan</a> and <a href="https://github.com/ty10r">Tylor Louis</a>
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<p class="bold">Thank you to everyone who has helped make this possible!</p>
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