About Us

Early Adopter to Commercializing the Web

We have a unique origin, starting with our greco-Roman business name. "Oikoumene" (pronounced oy-kou-men'-ay) means either global community of mankind or world civilizations, thus the world-wide web or Internet community.

THEN.  Oikoumene Online Marketing and Design began as Oikoumene Online Marketing under our principal, online strategist and former online publicist, Sandy Jane Wong.   The northern-California consultancy began its foray into online publishing in Palo Alto, one of the world's major Internet hubs today.  Sandy spearheaded a high-tech law firm's website with the creation of a repository of all its legal papers--a few were co-authored by her--previously distributed via catalogues only.   Oikoumene designed the WWW Multimedia Law website where other law directories and law firms requested permission to link to.   With the hi-tech law firm's repository of papers becoming a subsection of that website--the law firm became among the first six law firms to appear on Yahoo's directory--clients for the law firm increased as promoting the law-firm became an artifact of making its papers accessible for easy download at the height of the dot com era.   Two of those papers were considered landmark or scholarly  by conveying legal issues of new media publishing co-authored by Sandy Jane Wong here.  Proof of their distinction remains at venerable sites on the Web (issues in multimedia  and issues in software licensing at the Electronic Frontier Foundation in San Francisco; multimedia clearinghouse proposal at Murdoch University in Perth, AU.)
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• Early Paper 1
  
  Co-author Sandy Jane Wong of 1994 law-firm paper that became world famous for its insight into copyright and licensing issues in creating multimedia content in an interactive world. Multimedia clearinghouse proposed.
• Early Paper 2
  
  Co-author Sandy Jane Wong of 1994 paper on current and future trends in software licensing practices veering toward global computing environments and the importance of international revenues to the U.S. software industry