Developing Topics - 1

IONS-AL Topics can be simple or complex. Any member who has an idea for a topic can and is urged to initiate one:

• create a draft post for the topic, and 
• submit it via email to the IONS-AL Community Group Coordinator. 

The initiator may be the topic leader or another person may be solicited. The leader will then post the topic to the IONS-AL blog for all to see, comment on, and discuss.
Any member who knows how to format an email can create an initial topic. An initial draft post submitted via email should include:

• Topic title
• Main body of the post (text, images, links)
• Proposed leader (name & email address; probably the initiator's)

If the initiator is to be the leader and it is the first topic ever submitted, then she/he may be given author access in order to post the topic to the blog. If the leader would rather, the webmaster can make the post from the content of the email.

See Blogging Basics and Mindfulness and EFT for Our Military for an example topic post (the poster is usually the de facto leader). Note that the body of the post can be copied and pasted from/to most email messages and a blog post. [Copy and paste the body of the example into a new email message to see how your email application handles the formatted content.]