I just stumbled across ISKCON’s Congregational Ministry Bhakti Vrksa weblog, run by Kaunteya das.

I’m pleased to see that. I wrote to Kaunteya to request something like this last year:

What I really have a burning desire for now prabhu is get a weblog together for the Bhaktivriksha community. One of the big problems is that there just isn’t enough feedback between different preachers to learn quickly from each other’s experiences. We are all struggling in our own little corners of the world with no development lists or websites where we can share what we are doing and what we are finding out, where we can share resources, swap techniques and technologies, reuse resources etc…

We have CPJ, but not many devotees get it, and it doesn’t come out regularly enough. There is still no 2nd edition BV Manual with the success and failure stories.

The blog is up now. I’ll generate content for it, but I think we can generate even more momentum, faster, with a distributed system. I kind of had this realization late last year when I wrote the following to Kaunteya:

My idea is to have an online website that is an aggregated blog that is dedicated to Network-centric Preaching, with blog feeds from Preachers such as yourself and others who are fired up and doing things. This way we get inspired, get ideas, can direct newcomers to a resource where they can tune in to our group think.

That website is ISKCON News.Net. The mission of that website is “to generate forward momentum in fulfilling the 7 purposes of ISKCON”. I am adding the Bhakti Vrksa web log feed.