Launch a Site for a Purpose

Create a new site to engage collaborators in a new purpose. Define carefully your role and an agenda that meets your purpose. Leave room for others to invent.

Choose a name, a single word, possibly drawn from a longer title that you might give the work eventually. Create a site with this name as the subdomain.

Choose a phrase that encompasses your purpose. Be specific in your intentions without excluding participation of others. Write a link in the space provided. If you expect multiple branches to your work, describe only the first branch and expect to refactor later.

Explain your purpose repeating your title but with different words and less ambiguous constructions. Stop short of defending your purpose.

Outline success with three to five short sentences describing achievements in the future tense. Write these in a brainstorming mode. Then rearrange them in an order that develops confidence in your purpose.

Identify yourself on the welcome page in the space provided. Use your full name. Make this be a link to another page where you describe your relationship to the purpose.

Write a first paragraph that would stand alone on in a list of contributors to this purpose. Hint at qualifications in this paragraph and then defend these hints, if appropriate, in subsequent paragraphs. Borrow words from correspondence. Link to the purpose page after you've prepared readers to trust your writing there.

Learn more about this style of writing for federated hypertext. Review your work and adjust it if you desire.