A very warm welcome indeed to all our Ashram friends for visiting our ashramgandhi blog. You may have come here from our other web ‘nodes’ such as our ashramgandhi.com or from elsewhere to look for specific information, or just to browse to find out a little bit more about the Ashram. We hope that you find what you are looking for but if not please go to About from the above main menu to see where else in our other Web ‘nodes’ you could possibly find the information you are after – or to raise a query.
This blog endeavours to help link up all the Ashram’s other Web ‘nodes’ which receive, disseminate and manage all information about and on behalf of Gedong Gandhi Ashram. The blog also performs the twin roles of an exchange for the ’query & response’ (along with our Facebook Page), and for posting ‘non-static’ articles and info about the Ashram and its activities, as opposed to the ‘static’ ones (such as our address, history/values/mission, rates for our accommodation for our paying guests which do not, or rarely, change) which are catered for by our primary website, the ashramgandhi.com . The full list and roles of the Ashram’s other Web ‘nodes’ are described in About.
The picturesque view of tranquillity of Gedong Gandhi Ashram, Candidasa, Bali, from the lake side
Navigation Tips.
For those not familiar with navigating through our blog, all ‘Posts’ (or posted articles) are sorted by category or month/year timeline by the side menu on the right. On this menu you can also find a search panel, a list of most recent posts, as well as links to ‘View’ Ashram Photo Sets, ‘Converse’ (with us) through our Facebook Page for those with an FB account and, of course, to our Gedong Gandhi Ashram ashramgandhi.com website.
We also have a Main Menu beneath our picture banner with Home, About and Ashram Info options with some drop down sub-menu or ‘Pages’. A Page has the ‘less dynamic’ information about the Ashram (such as Ashram routines etc.) unlike a Post which is more ‘newsy’ and dynamic in nature (such as a report of an event, opinions, writings etc.).
Feedback and Comment
Good management of these is very important to the good running of an organisation. The blog deals best when these are in relation to specific articles, or testimonial in nature, but for day to day queries or comments it is much more efficient to do it through our Facebook Page www.facebook.com/ashramcandidasa (for those with Facebook account) or by writing directly to our mailbox ashramgandhi@gmail.com. No it is not a plug for Facebook as I fully understand that not everyone has an account and that some people – I was one of them and still am treating it with care – have aversion or resistant to it. However, FB is tailored very much for ‘conversations’ within a community and does the task very well if one is sensible about its use and what private info we put in it (I’ll confess – in my case none! And I don’t respond to ‘apps’ that require you to agree to have your list of friends and private info – whatever little there is – made available for analysis, to be drilled down by a third party, or so that my FB friends can be approached with unsolicited offers or, worse still, exposed to some virus). Like any tool, a misuse will result in unintended consequences.
In keeping with the above we strongly urge you to communicate to us (especially the bad ones though, of course, we love to hear where we’ve done things right), your experiences with our blog, website or Ashram as we try to continually improve the quality of our services. Thanking you in anticipation, and we wish you a pleasant browsing through this blog.
