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.
– 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.
– ENLIVEN your posts — use anecdotes, humor, and metaphor.
– WRITE clearly and accessibly — short sentences
– 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:
– 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
– 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.