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HypnoPedia: What's Up With it?
As some of you know, I'm somewhat of a perfectionist. For better or worse, I take a lot of pride in doing things the 'right' way. This is often a good thing, sometimes counterproductive, and predictably unappreciated on dates. So it's with that mindset that I re-examine a resource that never captured the momentum I hoped it would. Some of you may be asking yourself, "what's a HypnoPedia?" and that's exactly my point.
Almost 2 years ago now I decided that we need a full wikipedia style resource dedicated to hypnosis. It was designed using software just like wikipedia so that anyone could edit what was written or add to it as they saw fit. The idea was to get a bunch of people adding pieces that would be a compendium of hypnosis knowledge. Everything from the history of hypnosis and clinical studies to scripts, local laws, and schools of thought. It was designed to be easily searchable, editable, linkable.
I worked very hard with a few volunteers for quite a while to put together what we agreed was a great start. We launched it on HypnoThoughts and then...not much happened.
I was recently doing an interview with Nathan Thomas and he asked me what ever happened to it and why, in my opinion, it didn't work as well as HypnoThoughts or the HypnoSummit. And while I gave him an answer that I believe, I don't know if it was accurate. So I figured I'd ask you guys.
What do I need to do to make HypnoPedia more compelling? What changes, incentives, upgrades, or challenges would encourage you to invest your time into contributing to it?
Be honest. Please. Is there anything I can do to make it work, or are people just sincerely not interested in adding content there? Why have people preferred the discussion forum with such overwhelming favor?
I see the potential in HypnoPedia. I see an idea that could really take off if some smart people invested a little bit of time in it. I see it as a wonderful community service project with a very practical upside for everyone. But to reach its potential it needs momentum that it never got. Maybe I didn't promote it right or it's too intimidating from a technical standpoint. Maybe I'm just wrong about it and I'm chasing windmills on this one.
Whatever it is, I'd like to know. I want to hear from you guys. Check out the HypnoPedia on this site and let me know what needs to happen. I want to clean up this old business before I move on to new features and bigger upgrades, which are coming soon.
Thanks for your honesty,
Scott Sandland
Tags: HypnoPedia, feedback, hypnosis, information, knowledge, potential, success, wiki
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Permalink Reply by Kathleen Hanover on
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I think Donna has some great ideas...not sure exactly how that would work. Hmmm. It's deserving of a good ponder.
I think something else that may work is a rating system for posts, although I suspect that Scott would have done that already if that were possible with this software. Then you could create a directory of "top-rated answers about inductions" or other such things.
Kathleen
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Permalink Reply by Jeremiah Junglas on -
point taken :$
Jan Krüger said:Jeremiah Junglas said:
While you're at it, you might want to suggest that to Wikipedia and the Encyclopedia Britannica, too. We might also want to change the words pedagogy, pedantic, pedal and pedestrian. ;)Just putting it out there that HypnoPedia sounds like a combination of Hypnosis and Pedophilia, so maybe another reason to revise the name? Just a thought...
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Permalink Reply by Georgia Dominick on -
Hi Scott,
I think, sometimes, when you have a successful site like Hypnothoughts and more and more people are joining every day - HypnoPedia needs to be at the fore for us to know it is there. I have been on this site now since February and, even though I have done a lot of exploring on the site, have never come across "Hypnopedia". Had I known it was there I would have dived in straight away. We love new scripts and techniques, patter, etc. Hypnotherapists are gluttons for knowledge and information - so the more we can get the better. Perhaps more marketing of HypnoPedia on this site would be beneficial. Many people don't know how to navigate through links and I have seen comments such as "where are the scripts" etc.
Well done Scott for all your wonderful work, you are a great mentor and friend to us all - you are valued and I would personally like to say a great big thank you.
Whilst I am writing - please could you tell me where I might enquire about taking a Forensic Hypnotherapy course - or who to approach.
Thanks again,
Georgia Dominick CH.t
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Permalink Reply by Georgia Dominick on
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I would like to reply to Jeremiah Junglas' comment re. HypnoPedia sounds like a combination of "Hypnosis and Pedophilia"......how about we reframe that Jeremiah to sounds like Hypnosis and encyclopedia......I could comment further but I won't.
Jan Krüger said:Jeremiah Junglas said:
While you're at it, you might want to suggest that to Wikipedia and the Encyclopedia Britannica, too. We might also want to change the words pedagogy, pedantic, pedal and pedestrian. ;)Just putting it out there that HypnoPedia sounds like a combination of Hypnosis and Pedophilia, so maybe another reason to revise the name? Just a thought...
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Permalink Reply by Marianne Robson on -
Hi Scott,
I typed in 'abreaction' in HypnoPedia, and got 'no replies'! Says it all?!
Regards,
Marianne
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Permalink Reply by Jeremiah Junglas on
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I'm sorry for my irrelevant, unthoughtful post. Hopefully my username is untarnished here with the small community on hypnothoughts. On the lighter side, possibly this demonstrates the kind of perspective I offer, youthful. Though I am looking forward to becoming a hypnotist, I am also looking forward to having the wisdom to post things not of that nature.
Georgia Dominick said:I would like to reply to Jeremiah Junglas' comment re. HypnoPedia sounds like a combination of "Hypnosis and Pedophilia"......how about we reframe that Jeremiah to sounds like Hypnosis and encyclopedia......I could comment further but I won't.
Jan Krüger said:Jeremiah Junglas said:
While you're at it, you might want to suggest that to Wikipedia and the Encyclopedia Britannica, too. We might also want to change the words pedagogy, pedantic, pedal and pedestrian. ;)Just putting it out there that HypnoPedia sounds like a combination of Hypnosis and Pedophilia, so maybe another reason to revise the name? Just a thought...
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