Personally I find that evenings and weekends offer me the best pockets of time for catching up with my reading. However postings generally slow down in Blogsville on the weekends, and to catch the best of the past week, those pockets of time fill up quickly with random archive surfing or RSS feed skimming.
I’d like to help you out this weekend — and anytime you’d like a dose of joy and enthusiasm to color your reading.
Bookmark this post as your index to 21 gems, gems which we learned this month to think of as online Leis of Aloha.
Sidebar: If you already have a feed or bookmark for Talking Story — mahalo nui! — you’ll find that the link to this post will be parked in the right column under the Lōkahi heading for your future reference and convenience.
“I smiled wide today
Recognition is sublime
Buoyed and humbled”
This was the haiku that Lisa Haneberg wrote for Stacy Brice after Stacy had given her a May Lei. I think it is a sentiment that everyone who receives a lei will echo.
The giving of leis is a Hawaiian tradition I just adore. Any tradition that is about giving recognition or some kind of acknowledgement to another person by sharing your aloha spirit with them is tops in my book, and if you know of something similar in another culture, please do share more about it in the comment fields of this posting.
In Hawaii May Day is known as Lei Day, and so for the month of May I had asked the Ho‘ohana Online Community of bloggers if they would like to give virtual leis to others in the community as a means of carrying out this Hawaiian tradition with Talking Story as their Mea Ho‘okipa (host/hostess). This post is a recap of the wonderful leis that were so unselfishly given all month long. When leis are given in an online community, there is learning to be shared with all of us.
You need not be a blogger to give someone a virtual lei of your own: I guarantee you that every web site author who has some kind of comment capability enabled, or offers you an email address to write to them, would consider hearing from you to be a lei of the best possible kind.
We all thrive on getting feedback from each other; from learning about the vast capacity of understanding and camaraderie we share. If you have never commented on a blog before, please consider doing so today: choosing any of the bloggers from the Ho‘ohana Online Community as your first brave attempt will be safe for you and a positive experience, for I am confident they will respond to you with their own lei of appreciation.
Here are their leis:
- From Bren at Slacker Manager, for Kevin Eikenberry of Kevin’s Blog
- From Dwayne at Genuine Curiosity, for Lisa Haneberg of Management Craft
- From Adrian at Adrian Trenholm, for Todd Storch of Business Thoughts
- From Jay at Renaissance Girl, for Scott Hodge of scotthodge.org
- From David St.Lawrence at Ripples, for Matt Sunshine of Ideas, Leadership, and Vision
- From Stacy at Virtualosophy, for Lisa Haneberg of Management Craft
- From Lisa Haneberg at Management Craft, for Adrian of Adrian Trenholm
- From Beth Robinson at Execukos, for Robin Scanlon of Ramblings
- From K.Todd Storch at Business Thoughts, for David St. Lawrence of Ripples
- From Kevin Eikenberry at Kevin’s Blog, for Wayne Hurlbert of Blog Business World
- From Christopher Bailey at the Alchemy of Soulful Work, for Bren Connelly of The Slacker Manager
- From Scott Hodge at scotthodge.org for Christopher Bailey of the Alchemy of Soulful Work
- From Wayne Hurlbert at Blog Business World, for Beth Robinson of Execukos
- From Nigel at Renaissance Girl, for Dwayne Melancon of Genuine Curiosity
- From Yvonne DiVita at Lip-Sticking, for David St. Lawrence of Ripples
- From Dwayne Melancon at Genuine Curiosity, for David St. Lawrence of Ripples
- This second one of Dwayne’s was strung as a review for David’s recently released book, Danger Quicksand - Have a Nice Day.
- From Kevin Eikenberry at Kevin’s Blog, for Bernie DeKoven of Bernie DeKoven’s FunLog
- From me, Rosa Say at Talking Story, for Jay and Nigel of Renaissance Girl
- From Matt Sunshine at Ideas, Leadership, and Vision, for Yvonne DiVita of Lip-Sticking
- From Yvonne DiVita at Lip-Sticking for Stacy Brice of Virtualosophy
To borrow Jane’s words, “The blogosphere is growing so big, so fast, it’s hard to keep up with the good blogs, block out the bad blogs, and just find time to read one’s top 20 favorites.”
The Ho‘ohana Online Community of bloggers who are listed in the right hand column of Talking Story are there for that very reason. It is an honor for me to offer you recommendations to some of the nicest people I know.
Visit them to give a lei of your own, and you are sure to receive one too.
I just know it.
Related posts:
Leis for community, Learning for all of us.
The Reinvention of the Business Community.
Join the Ho‘ohana Online Community of Bloggers.
Where we started: Introducing the Ho‘ohana Online Community.
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