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ONLINE: DLF-AFFILIATED BLOGS
Weblogs, or "blogs" for short, provide an easy way for a coordinator or a group to communicate their ideas and activities over time. The Foundation has supported and spun off a number of blogs on topics that are closely aligned with our mission. We also use blog technology to support some of our own online presence.
Our Chief Technology Officer operates a blog that reflects his own personal reflections on technologies and communication. This blog frequently gives insights into the reasoning behind, and the technologies that support, the Foundation's online direction and activities.
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DLF—Canada operates a service that is embedded in a page in this website but is totally blog-software-based (WordPress). DLF—Canada provides an ongoing series of reviews and articles on topics that are central to His Holiness and to the mission of the Foundation.
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In November 2006, The Foundation set up and continues to run a "resources" site for the AirJaldi Summit that contains conference presentations and full online videos of all keynote addresses and sessions. This site is also powered by WordPress blog software that in this case acts more like a "content management system." AirJaldi was planned by the Tibetan Technology Center, in Dharamsala, India, and the World Summits on Free Information Infrastructures (WSFII) and The Foundation served as a touch-point for US and European backers and attendees of the conference. There's more information on the AirJaldi site, which was created and operated by TibTec.
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We also maintain a blog for the use of our study circle coordinators. Emmanuel Ande Ivorgba (in the photo he's wearing red, with a group of his students) is our world-wide coordinator and promoter, and he resides in Nigeria, though he is online every day. Study circle coordinators are invited to share experiences and ask questions thru this multi-author blog.
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Our new Project Happiness contains a student blog that initially is being coordinated by students at Mount Madonna School, in the Santa Cruz mountains south of San Francisco (CA, USA). These students and two other classes — one in Nigeria and one in India — are collaborating to study the book Ethics for the New Millennium and then are conducting online and video "conversations" about lasting happiness.
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And at His Holiness' direction we try to help support others' efforts where we can, rather than create new organizations. We provide whatever time and materials we can on a volunteer basis to help get them up and running. For instance, we provided the technology behind OneVillage Foundation's blogs for a couple of years while OVF built the content and format, and OVF now operates and budgets these blogs on their own. You can now choose from among three OVF blogs: Integrated Solutions Blog, Integrated Farming and Waste Management, and OVF News.
"OVF's mission is to provide consulting services focusing on the development of sustainable development, businesses and networks. Its main goal and mission is the preservation of the integrity of Earth’s ecosystems and indigenous cultures... OVF seeks to do this by focusing on sustainable, integrated and whole systems approaches to economic development and empowerment within emerging or bottom up economy (BOP) markets." |
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