Patrick,
Greg, and I sat down earlier this week to talk about how we
could best make information-rich blogs that are accessible to a wide
range of people. This meeting comes on the cusp of the
financial
permaculture course, which we will be real-time blogging in order to
tell the story of a small-town gathering to explore solutions for a
resilient local economy.
Our Gaia University blogging team will use the following guidelines (as a
mindmap and a list) for creating quality real-time blog the
Financial Permaculture Course in Hohenwald, TN.
Blogging Directives
what... -
TELL participants' stories -- use their words and perceptions.
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HARVEST useful information and resources (ideas, people, theories, businesses, organizations, websites) for later distillation.
how... -
BLOG in the first person. Personalize the story you tell.
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ENLIVEN your posts -- use anecdotes, humor, and metaphor.
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WRITE clearly and accessibly -- short sentences
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LINK the crap out of your blog posts.
Aim for at least 3 links per post. At a minimum, link to
www.financialpermaculture.com www.gaiauniversity.org www.centerforaholisticecology.org Other bloggers:
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www.permaculturedesigns.blogspot.com -
www.solari.com/blog -
www.gaiaemerging.com -
www.thinkingjamz.blogspot.com -
www.gifthub.org -
www.peaksurfer.blogspot.com -
CONNECT your posts to big IESD ideas: Permaculture, Peak Oil, Patrix-Busting, Slow Food, Spiral Dynamics, Integral Theory, Art of Mentoring, Collaboration
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DEMONSTRATE your content with images, live photos, and graphics.
- So, whenever any participant...
- ...echoes or resonates with the FPC meta-story, BLOG IT.
- ...tells a personal story that moves you, BLOG IT.
- ...shares a piece of juicy information that's new to you, BLOG IT.
Digiphon: This post was written with OmniOutliner Pro on a MacBook Pro running OSX 10.5 (Leopard). The mindmap was made with VUE, an excellent, cross-platform, free concept-mapping and ontology software program.
