[Cross posted from support.bryght.com]

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"We envision a world of justice, peace, and freedom". Thus starts the vision for FORpeace. FOR Peace.net is a recent Bryght Light site which is in its early days but already is compelling and moving.

One story that is particularly poignant is Our Way Home Reunion about a recent gathering and reunion of Vietnam resisters and Iraq war veterans in Nelson, British Columbia aka "Resisterville" .

The person behind this site is ForPeace Community Co-coordinator Ruby Sinreich who is bootstrapping ForPeace's online Web 2.0 presence with this Drupal site, as well as a Second Life presence and instant messaging.

She says: "The best thing about our site is that we have opened up a dynamic channel for telling our stories and making connections. A number of my colleagues have already make their first blog entries including our Executive Director"!

Ruby also loves the SimpleMenu module from Drupal community member m3avrck that Bryght has bundled as part of its Bryght Basic Install profile (available to all Drupal users on our public wiki not just Bryght customers) that provides simple, easy to use administrative menus as well as Google Analytics integration and other goodies in Bryght Basic.

Broad prosperity. Shared responsibility. Effective government and progress toward a better future. Progressive U has kickstarted and nurtured students (and former students) blogging about progressive issues and creating their own voice in the media since they started as a Bryght Light site back in February 2005.

Thanks to the hard work of the Progressive U team (including founder and publisher Art Morgan) and gentle fostering of the community, Progressive U was an early success for Bryght and continues to thrive so much that others including Inside Bay Area have taken notice.

They have moved to a Bryght Virtual Private Server on our Bryght Hosting platform to accommodate their high traffic and need for extra features to facilitate the conversation on the sites.

GreenCityBlueLake is the magical phrase that captured people's imaginations about the possibilities of creating green cities on a blue lake in Northeast Ohio. It is a Bryght Light site that has become an online community workspace where people tell their sustainability stories and learn from each other.

The site uses Drupal out of the box community features like blogs, forums, quotes, comments, book pages, events calendar, user profiles, and photo galleries to create, and nurture this discourse (in conjunction with a human website editor of course!).

EcoCity Cleveland, the non profit behind the site has been working on these issues since 1992.

David Beach, executive director of EcoCity, states that the best thing about the site is: "The way we are providing an open and interactive, yet structured and well organized, place for thinking strategically about the sustainability of Northeast Ohio -- all with a clean design."

EcoCity Cleveland recently announced its merger with the world renowned Cleveland Museum of Natural History, where it will create a new Center for Regional Sustainability and continue to develop the GreenCityBlueLake site. Fantastic news! We look forward to the continued evolution of the online community, the site and the dialogue as part of the museum!

[Cross posted from support.bryght.com]
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