Reactionary in that I’ve been trying to take a stand that contrasts the divisiveness of Trump’s presidential campaign, and before that, trying to counter the divisiveness among those in social movements including myself.
To what extent have I confused mattes in that I’ve thought a site name and domain must set the engagement priorities, including Earthlingist.org and Unity Peddler ?
Last night outside of Global Gallery, one person responded to my blog title as if it were an advocacy group, and I felt obliged to play it down, which diminished our engagement. My awkwardness came from not wanting the issue to be about me, per se.
WhatYouCareAbout.com may be a way for me to engage people of a wide variety of perspectives. But would that approach lack a purpose?
Maximizelovingkindness.org seems too long for people to remember. OrganizeKindness.com might work best.
Is WhatYouCareAbout.com pandering ? No, but I’m concerned it doesn’t express any values. Maybe a domain for my purposes doesn’t need to express values, but instead needs to be a standing invitation to sincerely engage practically anyone anywhere.
I’ve obviously not engaged many people during the past few years of framing my blogging with domains that have the theme of love and kindness. Maybe I’ll do more to organize kindness or maximize loving kindness if I use WhatYouCareAbout.com, in that I genuinely listen to people of a wide variety of perspectives on a wide variety of issues and then use the blog and social media to help build working relationships among people I engage.
WhatYouCareAbout.com tells people I want to engage and tells them where they can go online to engage others about they care about.
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I’ve made thruout at least some of my community media work during the past few years the mistake of asking a question and instead of listening and seeking to understand others, I’ve used the situation to preach at and lecture people. By doing that I’ve undermined my media work, and detracted from my social satisfaction.
Try a variety of domains such as Centralohiocommunitymedia.org, OrganizeKindness.com, and so on. What’s certain is that I must engage inperson well beyond my social circles
Use a mic when feasible, because people seem to communicate at a higher level of thinking if they know it’s to be shared with others beyond the immediate situation.
Intense analysis is more useful if it’s based on genuine listening and asking sincere not rhetorical questions.
This is a tech test
OrganizeKindness.com
In addition to listening and posting content based on the question What do you care about?, there are additional parts of the website. One section could be “organized kindness” in terms of movements, organizations, etc, and there can also be a section called “Organized Unkindness” regarding movements, organizations, corp and gov policies and so on.
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