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Responding

Four months ago, at the start of Summer, I reorganized the site so that the main navigation tabs read: Conditions, Experiences, and Organizers. I explained that reorganization in a blog posting.

On the heels of that reorganization, I got to rethinking our former features called "Testify" and "Answer". Orginally, when I started up this site, my primary focus was the Recipes. Basically, the Recipes are like a special kind of community blog.

Members of Holonation post the various Recipes just as with a community blog. But what makes Recipes different from a standard community blog is they follow a certain structure. Specifically, they ask for Introduction, Ingredients, and Steps.

The purpose of this structure is to encourage people to contribute punchy "single-card" recipes for doing something specific. Just as with recipes for food dishes, the Recipes on Holonation allow any of us to try them out for ourselves.

But given that many Recipes on Holonation are founded upon deep theory, and/or rich personal experience, a vehicle was needed for expressing these deeper notions.

Thus was born Testimonies. The original idea behind Testimonies was that they would serve as containers for deeper thoughts about Recipes.

Soon after, we realized that few in the demographic of the Holonation members just wakes up one day itching to share a personal Testimony with the web, and even fewer of us think of our lives in terms of Recipes for doing the things we do. But just about all of us have questions from time to time.

Thus the Questions feature was born. And with Questions came Answers.

But when I organized the site as mentioned above, it occured to me that one of the principal ways that any of us gets the idea to share a personal experience of ours is through reading the experiences of others.

That is, when we read a particular Recipe, Testimony, or Question, what often comes to mind are related experiences of our own.

So that's why I added the "Respond" feature. On every page dedicated to a single Recipe, Testimony, or Question, there is a link below the content inviting you to Respond with an experience of yours.

This link allows you to post the Recipe, Testimony, or Question that came to mind upon reading that content. Hope you find it useful.