That’s a good idea Jill! The amount of work is huge if a few are supposed to do all, but in the same way as with the experiential articles here: if we have a few guidelines different persons can make their own contributions and then the sum becomes greater than the parts. :)

It does sound like a huge amount of work, but I really like the concept. I think we could ultimately end up at the fair, if we add one booth at a time to start.

Hey that’s an interesting idea… it sounds like a huge amount of work though :-L

Not sure this idea fits here, but could not really come up with any other suitable place either. ;) What if we were to make an online “fair” with talks, lectures, workshops (in the extent it’s possible) as a global event, for anyone in the world to participate? I am sure that we together here [...]

Ok.. some thoughts as they come in.. . Collaboration: -If a person from another network would write and article it could be included here, but then that person might join HG directly.. so that’s not a collaboration between networks. -Keeping the different networks updated on what’s going on in the other network.. could that be [...]

If we want true interaction, just messages are not good enough, because that’s just one way communication, it does not involve people. The “businesses” could also be very different: here we have this site with a lot of articles and a lot of interaction, another “biz” could just be a social network of single persons [...]

Exactly. What does this look like? It would be like two businesses working together on a project… how does that work and what happens? Is it simply just being aware of each other and when necessary, we shoot messages between the two organizations? What function would handle that? The easy answer is to say “just [...]

I think one important question is if it is the networks that would collaborate or the people in the networks that would collaborate. It’s likely the people.. because if it’s the network then it does not engage the people but just a few of the most involved ones.. at least that’s how it would have [...]

Hey we need to keep this thread going. I want to start connecting with other holistic social networks. What do you think that would look like? How would two networks collaborate? Keep in mind, there will always be room for more “networks”. One won’t appeal to everyone. We have our vibe here. There might be [...]

I wish you could have heard some of the conversations Jill and I have had already. WOW ;-) We’re going to have to record our first one and post it as a demo of what’s possible. We could add a category to the blog called Conversations and post them there. Hey wait, that’s yet another [...]

WOW WOW WOW! :-O We’re going to get sick of ourselves saying WOW around here :D How lucky we are to have this opportunity to show up, explore and create… together. WOW!

My turn to say: Wow! You description of red and blue completely resonates with something I got a glimpse of just about an hour ago. Different setting and slightly different view than what I had before the glimpse, same but yet not the same…
Synchronous – Like it! :)

Wow great analogies you two! I like! I was getting seriously tired of the nature of Facebook. It has its place and it enables a nice light conversation among people you know, but it’s not good when you want to build something. It keeps people trapped in a kind of silliness – silly conversation. They [...]

I completely agree. I think the difference is that here there are some thick candles holding the flame alive possibly lighting up a few smaller bypassing candles, while at FB anyone can see what is posted, but many prefer the artificial electric lamp instead! ;)

Hum… okay on a side note, I want to illuminate something that some people will not like. That website is using something near and dear to holistic hearts to farm email addresses… probably for reasons they’re NOT revealing to you up-front. This is a very common marketing tactic for getting your personal information out of [...]