Comments on: Blogging Is Like Life http://tacticalphilanthropy.com/2007/11/blogging-is-like-life Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:06:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Drew McManus http://tacticalphilanthropy.com/2007/11/blogging-is-like-life#comment-1056 Drew McManus Mon, 26 Nov 2007 18:45:51 +0000 http://tacticalphilanthropy.com/2007/11/blogging-is-like-life#comment-1056 Julia: Thanks for the post. I'm flattered you mentioned me and the story I shared with you. This young woman was among the many inspirations that drove Melissa and I to create Bring Light. Thanks to countless stories like hers, Bring Light is flourishing. Leaving my corporate job to this has been fun, terrifying, energizing, and exhausting. But it has always felt good. I'm looking forward to your book's release! Drew -- Drew McManus President & Co-founder Bring Light www.bringlight.com Julia:

Thanks for the post. I’m flattered you mentioned me and the story I shared with you. This young woman was among the many inspirations that drove Melissa and I to create Bring Light.

Thanks to countless stories like hers, Bring Light is flourishing. Leaving my corporate job to this has been fun, terrifying, energizing, and exhausting. But it has always felt good.

I’m looking forward to your book’s release!

Drew
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Drew McManus
President & Co-founder
Bring Light
http://www.bringlight.com

]]> By: Sean Stannard-Stockton http://tacticalphilanthropy.com/2007/11/blogging-is-like-life#comment-1025 Sean Stannard-Stockton Fri, 23 Nov 2007 23:46:35 +0000 http://tacticalphilanthropy.com/2007/11/blogging-is-like-life#comment-1025 I agree Samantha. Blogging is about storytelling. Not the kind of storytelling where the story is handed down and repeated generation to generation. But the living storytelling where a community takes up the story and lives it. And by living it transforms it each and every time it is told. Only stories that are actually lived retain their relevance as time passes. I'm glad that the OPC has been the kind of experience that you describe. I must say I had no idea what I might be starting. But I am proud of what the community has brought to the table. There are many stories here. All of them still unfolding and ready to be retold and remixed. I agree Samantha. Blogging is about storytelling. Not the kind of storytelling where the story is handed down and repeated generation to generation. But the living storytelling where a community takes up the story and lives it. And by living it transforms it each and every time it is told.

Only stories that are actually lived retain their relevance as time passes.

I’m glad that the OPC has been the kind of experience that you describe. I must say I had no idea what I might be starting. But I am proud of what the community has brought to the table. There are many stories here. All of them still unfolding and ready to be retold and remixed.

]]> By: Samantha Beinhacker http://tacticalphilanthropy.com/2007/11/blogging-is-like-life#comment-1024 Samantha Beinhacker Fri, 23 Nov 2007 19:21:37 +0000 http://tacticalphilanthropy.com/2007/11/blogging-is-like-life#comment-1024 Halalujah! I love this post. It speaks to the visceral part of me which believes that what we're doing with blogging is: Storytelling to Make Change. Whatever that change might be (for good or for worse--- but we have that choice to decide). Blogging is like life: it takes on the meaning you give it. And, for me, the meanings are immensely complex, but I love the connections I make with people, the communities that are built, the impact we can make as a collective whole. I applaud this One Post Challenge (writ large), as I think it's created some kind of "experience" of people who are inspired to talk together, fight a bit, debate, and challenge-- quite literally-- the assumptions that need to be challenged. Brava! Bravo! Halalujah! I love this post. It speaks to the visceral part of me which believes that what we’re doing with blogging is: Storytelling to Make Change.

Whatever that change might be (for good or for worse— but we have that choice to decide).

Blogging is like life: it takes on the meaning you give it. And, for me, the meanings are immensely complex, but I love the connections I make with people, the communities that are built, the impact we can make as a collective whole.

I applaud this One Post Challenge (writ large), as I think it’s created some kind of “experience” of people who are inspired to talk together, fight a bit, debate, and challenge– quite literally– the assumptions that need to be challenged.

Brava! Bravo!

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