Most
websites are institutional – and promotional. They are there to sell you
products, services and, in some cases, ideologies. The new website I am
planning will simply provide good material and writing to help and encourage
people to work together for a better future.
I’ve
had both a blog and a website for almost 6 years – almost 1000 blogposts and
about 20 papers on a website focused mainly on issues of capacity building at
both national and local levels in several countries but mainly in what we previously
knew as the “Eastern bloc”.
But
my interests have always been broader – as is clear from the blog which has had
several series devoted to such subjects as training, capacity development and technical
assistance; and to different aspects of Scotland, Bulgaria, Romania and Germany. It has also teased out issues on such themes as political parties,
universities, corporate power and the global crisis. A short post earlier in the year tried to explain this.
I’m
running out of website capacity but, for 100 euros a year, could simply upgrade
with no limits. But I’m thinking instead of setting up a free-standing,
“unhosted” facility. It will hopefully force me to focus more clearly. It’s not
so much a question of what I want to say – that’s a bit too self-centred…..and
I’ve always tried not just to give credit to others but indeed to seek out the
voices which were expressing what I felt more clearly. Its rather that I want to try to spend more time distilling the essence of the “concerned writing” of the
past few decades which can be found (if you search hard enough) in a variety of places.
I have a lot of experience at both high-levels (professional and
political); and (in depth) in about 6 countries; and both extensive and broad reading.
This is a fairly rare com- or rather decet (!) bination.
And
that is indeed the problem – that the “tags” I want to use – such as “capacity
development” and “community”, “municipality” – let alone “governance” and
“social change” – are so dry, hackneyed….and, ultimately, meaningless.
I accepted that my current website is a professional one – with a very limited readership. But I want the new one “to attract traffic”!
And
that affects its name ....I have a lengthening list……in which “Conviviliaty” looms
large…I accepted that my current website is a professional one – with a very limited readership. But I want the new one “to attract traffic”!
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