Refactor lifeitself.org content for better structure etc

[rufuspollock]

Part of #170 and follow up to #184.

As part of the migration we could also do some tidying and organizing e.g. some or all of

• Get a clear list of projects/programs and refactor existing content around that
• Identify any high-level themes
• Move older material to a clear archival section with redirect

Questions

• What is the layout (information architecture) of the digital garden (and life itself site in general)?
• How do we have subsections of site (given its size) e.g. notebook section vs tao section vs ...
• What are our categories?

Acceptance

• New structure and taxonomy agreed
  • Categories for blog posts are refined e.g. to 2 high level categories: programs/projects OR themes/topics
  • Implemented into blog
  • Implemented into site
• What do we do with the existing institute content

Tasks

Prep

• Create Job stories for website structure 🚧 job stories compiling in here
• Analyse the taxonomy of categories and refine
  • Get list of categories into a spreadsheet ✅2022-11-05 exported wordpress category list to spreadsheet
  • Are there any obvious consolidations / deletions now?
• Analyse blog posts to see if there are any to remove

Implementation

• Add correct categories & tags to blog posts
• Reorder pages into correct subdirectories
• Add initiatives and initiatives index based on work from Initiatives (Projects) list for Life Itself (created and on website) #97
• Tidy up people names for follow same url structure and display
• Add social media links and newsletter sign-up where appropriate

Notes

What taxonomy structure do we use?

Currently we have 42 categories, for the average blog is it suggested to have approximately 10.

QUESTION: Should we use categories more sparingly and have tags too?

• For example, each initiative would have it's own tag, plus a tag for past, present, future
• The overall category would be Initiatives
• Other Categories could include: Updates, Summaries of concepts and traditions, Guides to practices, Book Reviews Our Philosophy (Or Key Readings), Activities (if we continue to use blog posts as landing pages for events etc, which I would say not to and then any announcements or launches would be categorized as updates)

graph LR

root --> topic
root --> program

Programs

• Hubs
• Residencies (DDP?)
• Research / Think tank / Institute / Labs

Naming - an eternally hard topic!

Principles:

• KISS
• Have less categories with more content than being super specific
  • Categories tags do not work like hashtags
  • Full category pages are more user-friendly than pages with just one or two articles
  • YES longtail SEO is important, but this should be from page title and not categories per se

What name do we use for the root taxonomy items

• topic: theme, category, ...
• program: project, area (activity area), initiative
  • These categories should then link directly to the initiative page (AKA the intiative landing page is also the category archive)

# landing pages
/            # home
/newsletter  
/programs    # e.g. residencies etc

# optional
/podcast

# hubs?? or is this in tao now?
/hubs ??

# resources
/about
/initiatives/ - a full list of all our activities

Clarification: Initiatives can be a series of activities. Therefore, Embodying Collective Transformation is an initiative with each residency being an activity (and listed on the events page).

Categories

• Broad categories: Technology, Spirituality, Ecology, Climate, Economy, Farming, Community (Max 9) or the ones on the ecosystem map already
  Categories lead to mega guides which compile different areas within each area. E.g. Farming => Permaculture, Agroforestry, Regenerative Ag., Food Tech
  News/Updates => used for all real news e.g. launch or major updates to initiatives, partnerships, etc ...
• Events/Activities => for events (may also be in news) => so that we can have an /events/ page run off this ...
• Areas of Interest (e.g. Systems, Governence, Spirituality & Religion)
  • Topics as subcategories (e.g. Collective Wisdom)
• https://www.scienceandnonduality.com/search?keywords=&sort=RECENT&interest%5B%5D=5 good inspiration

[nathenf]

@rufuspollock suggestion for blog categories. Basically defined by three parameters:

• Type (Book Summary, Guide, Update)
• Area of Interest (Spirituality & Religion, Politics & Political Systems)
• Topic (Permaculture, Zen Buddhism, Solarpunk)

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Parent	Child
Updates	Activities
Our Philosophy
Initiatives	Exploring Web3 & Crypto
	Embodying Collective Transformation
	Ecosystem Mapping of Responses to the Polycrisis
	etc
Book Summary
Guide/Key Concept
Creativity & Imagination	Requiem for a Passing Age
	Solarpunk
Spirituality & Religion	Zen Buddhism
Health & Wellbeing	Sustainable Wellbeing
	Qi-Gong
Ecology & Environment	Ecospirituality
	Climate Change
Social Justice & Equality	Equality Complex
	Climate Inequality
Food Systems & Farming	Permaculture
	Food Crisis
	Cooking for Communities
Technology	Techno-Solutionism
Economics & Economic Systems	Re-Fi
Organizational and institutional governance	Co-X
	Policy
	Co-Operatives
Inner development	Integral Theory
	Internal Family Systems
	Mindfulness
	Meditation
Politics and political systems	Ontological Politics
Community and collectivity	Collective Wisdom
	Cultural Activism
	Contemplative Activism
	Conscious Parenting
	Conscious Coliving
	Culturology