blogging guidelines

What makes this site unique is its focus on solutions above all else, presented either as videos or blogs. It's for that reason they are found under the tab 'Solutions'.

To maintain consistency and usefulness, it would help greatly if you try to follow these guidelines.

1 - Please make the focus of your blog or video about a specific solution. By all means talk about the problems and issues that need overcoming, but remember, the purpose is to prsent solutions. if you want to have a rant about something, there are thousands of other sites out there dying to hear from you.

2 - Please make the title clear, and use it to express as briefly as possible what the solution featured in your post is. So 'Woman invents self-refilling jug'. or 'Village find goose that lays golden egg'.

3 - For blogs, please include a photograph at the top of your post if possible. Do this by clicking on the camera icon (second from right at top of box where you enter text). Click on 'upload an image' and upload an image from your computer. If you have found an image on the internet, please check you have permission to use it, or that it is copyright-free. Then click on 'options'. Tick the boxes for 'wrap text around image', 'image on left' and 'select thumbnail'

4 - Add some tags, separated by commas. These help people find posts that are relevant to what they are looking for. Go to the main blog page and look at the list of tags on the right and if any of those apply to your post, add them. Add any others, trying to ensure you have covered the category of solution you are featuring, in what country it is found (if relevant), and what problems it addresses - so a blog about a self-refilling jug might be tagged 'water, thirst, free, Greece'

5 - If there are any websites you want people to go to - especially if the project or solution has a website, please make sure they are mentioned. You can write it at the bottom, or link to it from inside the blog. You do this is as follows: find the word in the text that refers to the website - eg 'Ivili'. Highlight it as if to copy it. Then click on the 'link to url' button above the text box (it's the box to the left of the camera, that looks like three links in a chain'). In the drop down box that appears, add the details of the relevant website. When you preview the page before publishing, it should appear in green, and if you click on the word, open the relevant webpage.

6 - Tick the box marked 'allow comments'

7 - Click the button marked 'preview page'. Once you are happy, click the box marked 'publish'. Your blog will now be sent to the moderators for approval bfore appearing on the site.