What We Care for and What We Do about It

Reading and first step writing
”I’m ready to try some postings, still new, but I will do it.”

Writing here is really easy, everyone can learn to do it without much effort. It is more a matter of getting used to the ‘environment’, like when you first tried to send out your email.

Adding new comments
Probably the first thing you want to write is your thought, your comment, your view on a certain subject or ask a question. Easy!
- On every page you read you can find at the bottom “add new comment”, click on it and you only need to fill in a title and your text in the “body”; then – important – don’t forget to click on “submit”! You will see your posting! Congratulations!
- You want to do some editing? No problem: click on “edit” at the top of the page and you come back to the posting-page; make the improvements and “submit” again.
- One thing to learn: “adding new comment” is different from “reply”. The latter is only for little notes, sometimes only to the writer of the page. You can see while reading in the forums that comments line up to the left side, and that replies move more to the right.

Announce something to the whole community
You best use the “Evolutionary Community Blog” for this. Click on it in the Navigation Menu and fill in title and the text; don’t bother about all the other things! If need be, you can learn about it later, you don’t need to use it now. Don’t forget to “submit” at the bottom of the page!

Wish List

Reading, writing and engagement
“I want to engage actively in this online community.”

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-    show yourself to the community: filling in your profile in My account
-    chatting: join the chatbox
-    sharing on the edge: member’s forums;
-    creating shared meaning: peer to peer conversations around topics, you can open forums like Open Space sessions, which means you take responsability to host this converation
-    Knowledge creation: wiki’s and (some) personal blogs

Reading, writing and engagement

Reading only
“I just want to know what is going on in this community. I want to stay tuned.”

First of all, you don’t need to be logged in for reading only. Because there is a lot of content already, which will grow and expand in the future; how to deal with this?

First read the Evolutionary Community blog and Personal blogs, they give you ‘some’ feeling of what is going on in the community.
Blog is an abbreviation of web-log or web-diary. In a blog you always find the latest postings on the top. Here you find ideas, sparks of insights and announcements that are shared with the whole community.
We have two kind of blogs:
1) 'Evolutionary Community blog' where you will find blog-posts from other community members, and maybe yours in the future! (click on Evolutionary Community blog in the Navigation Menu: upper left blog on the screen)
2) Personal blogs is a compilation of entries made by individuals in their personal blog. You can later post entries in your own blog too!


You want to read more?
Great! You can read wiki-pages and forums. (next topics in the Navigation Menu)
In the wiki-pages you find reports and notes from conversations and sessions and also pages where people work on the content together – like co-creating the invitation for a next gathering, or like writing together the report of a shared event. We try to keep the structure of all these pages ‘usable’ but as everyone can add a page it is not at all moments really clear.
The forums are our conversation places. When you click on “Forums” in the Navigation Menu you will see the titles of the different forums and how many topics and who posted the latest comment. Just read along!
Some conversations are really interesting? You can ‘subscribe’ to a forum by clicking on the “subcribe post” at the bottom of the page. This will give you email alerts when something is posting in this topic. And you can always “unsubscribe post”.

For a quick overview!
There is a block on the right side of the screen “Active Forum Topics”, it just shows what it says it does. The same for “Recent Comments”. It tells you what is ‘hot’ in our online community.

You want to read everything? Click on “Recent Posts” in the Navigation Menu and you will see it all listed before your eyes: blog entries, forum topics, wiki-pages…

If you want a next step in using this site, go to "next" below this page.