Cohousing-L Mailing List: Wanted: Online Communicator with Coho experience for project

[Craig Ragland (craigragland]

I would like to work with somebody to start dong some active online
cohousing promotion onto the broad web.

This is not more preaching to the choir (within our rarified coho-bubble).
This is about introducing Cohousing to people with aligned interests, e.g.,
those involved with sustainabilty, community, or conscious aging, etc.
(i.e., our low hanging fruit that we want to recruit).

This would start out as a simple project - you and I would work together as
you get up to speed. We would both visit some open, public websites (blogs,
news sites, social websites, and more). You would either directly post brief
edited blurbs or would submit the text that might be posted later should
some decider accept your content. You would record your actions and we would
look at our web metrics to see what is most effective at driving traffic.

I want to start this project with a small budget (let's talk). If we
demonstrate success, it could grow into an ongoing role with significant
growth potential as we find ways to synch with others' interests.

MUST HAVES

1. You must have active, experiential knowledge of Cohousing - minimally,
you are a member of a Late-stage Group and/or a Built Community.

2 (a) You are already familiar with web tools like twitter, stumble upon,
blogs, etc. You are know about SPAM posts, tags, referring URLs, and other
web-relevant "stuff"

OR

2 (b) You are nimble enough to independently learn fast and communicate
intelligently about this stuff - before you contact me.

3. You must be able to "crank out" interesting content with relevant links.
You can take some basic guidelines and blurbs, then edit and adding more as
you author and post Coho-content which relates to the existing article or
blog post - etc. For example, if you are posting a comment on an article on
trends in green housing, you might post about the growth of cohousing and
the green-ness of sharing some resources, which enables smaller homes =
smaller carbon footprints.

Note: this is pretty similar to making relevant responses to the many Coho-L
topics that flow here on a day-to-day basis. The main difference is that
your posts would need to be sensitive to the fact that most of your readers
would not really understand Cohousing at all.

4. You must have the demonstrated ability to quickly go from a brief note
like:

"Ask David (cc-ed) about Cohousing as Economic Lifeboat"

to an interesting post with minimal additional guidance.

5. You must be easy to work with via email with an occasional phone call.

NICE TO HAVES

5. Basic HTML tagging (simple formatting)

6. Interest in growing this work into a regular income - if our web metrics
can demonstrate the actual value.

7. Strong familiarity with the cohousing world and the conversations about
it over the last several years, e.g., you read the Coho-L posts and his
Audacity of Cohousing piece, so you already know that David Entin is
interested and learning about Cohousing as Lifeboat.  You've been to
conferences, taken bus tours, etc.

8. You have a name that others invovled with Cohousing will recognize - and
possibly just from your posts to Coho-L

9. Ability to manage others - if this takes off, perhaps you'll be leading a
team (maybe I'm just dreaming here).

INTERESTED?

Send me an email (please keep it private, i.e., do not cc Coho-L).

Tell me about your cohousing history and experience with online
communications and tell me about items 1-9, above.

Thanks!

Craig Ragland
Executive Director
Cohousing Association of the United States (Coho/US)
425-487-3550
http://www.cohousing.org
craig [at] cohousing.org

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