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Kokoro Social Software

Posted by garym on Sat, 08/30/2003 - 07:48

The Hoita Kokoro Centre has contracted Teledynamics to create a new social software portal for the teaching and discussion of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tai Chi, Yoga and other alternative therapies. The new site, which soft-launches this Labour Day weekend, features events and essential information about the Centre, their staff and their services, with discussion forums and weblogs hosted by each of the Kokoro Centre practitioners, latest news on TCM and alternative therapies, reviews of resources and a blogroll of related websites.

While there are excellent online resources for practitioners of Traditional Chinese Medicine, there are few forums and resources for the western lay public to discover and discuss these treatments. Sensei John Hoita sees clear advantages in the peculiar knowledge sharing and peer-support orientation of the Drupal web engine:

"We are all broken in different places and at different times, therefore, the best we can do is ... those of us who are broken less, help those who are broken more."

This isn't knowledge management, this is knowledge sharing as the means for community growth, and that definately sounds like a job for social software!

[ Source: The Hoita Kokoro Centre ]

Blog Software

Submitted by on Mon, 02/09/2004 - 13:20.

I am new to the internet and I am surfing here and this is very interesting reading. I did a search in the search engines on "pub bar entertainment blog software" and I found your web blog and although "software" isnot the Blog Software I was looking for, it was very interesting reading.
I am researching blogs as I was interested in a blog for myself, that is if I can understand how to operate a blog. The different things discussed on this website found by searching for "pub bar entertainment blog" is very amusing and from seeing and understanding more of how a blog operates, it may be more than this Halifax pub guy to handle.

thanks for the insight
see you at the pub ( some call it bar! )

B. J. Johns,
A Halifax Pub Enthusiast

A pub blog: Excellent idea

Submitted by garym on Tue, 11/09/2004 - 20:34.

This idea of yours is maybe better than you think, providing it doesn't stray into privacy issues -- I've seen several pubs with online journals by the staff telling of news in and around their community; a pub is a community hub, so it's a natural for this sort of role online.

but be aware, someone has to actually do the work, and if you don't sustain the output, you can quickly get forgotten. Designate someone on staff as the host and give them license to ask participation, and engage your community too.

It can be cheap, and one that I often recomment is the free blogger.com just to get you started; easy to use, no awkard HTML to learn, you just enter your story and push the publish button.

If you do decide to roll out a Canadian pub blog, please do let me know!