Publishing your Global Earth Exchange story on our Website

In a very short time, people around the world will be going to places they care about that are damaged or threatened and giving them attention, stories, and gifts of beauty! Thank you for joining the Global Earth Exchange!

We’re excited to learn about your event! Here’s how to submit your story and photo.

Publishing your Global Earth Exchange story and photo on our website

If you’ve already registered your Host name and your Exchange Event on our website:

1. Just log in to HOSTS + on the home page.
2. Enter your user name and password.
3. You’ll be taken to your Hosts Hub page.
4. Look for MY EXCHANGE EVENT area and visit your event page.
   • You can also find the link to your Event from the HOSTS+ menu area.
5. On your Exchange Event page you will now see a gold box with A Story to Share heading and a heart image in it. Click the link asking you to Publish Your GEx Story!
6. You will be taken to the HOSTS SHARE A STORY form where you can share about your event and photos. Your Story will be published immediately and available on our home page, Discover Stories page, and referenced throughout the site.

If you’ve already registered your Host name on the website, but not your Global Earth Exchange event:

1. Go to HOSTS +on the home page.
2. Enter your user name and password.
3. You’ll be taken to your Hosts Hub page.  Look for the MY EXCHANGE EVENT area with the REGISTER YOUR EVENT button.
   1. • You can also find the link to your Event from the HOSTS+ menu area.
4. Fill out the details of your Global Earth Exchange and click on CREATE EXCHANGE EVENT at the bottom of the page.
5. Once you publish your Exchange Event, you can follow the instructions above for publishing your Global Earth Exchange Story.

Sharing great photos and stories

Taking a great photo of your Global Earth Exchange

The best photos are the ones that show (1) the people at your event, (2) the gift of beauty/work of art you created, and (3) enough of your place to indicate how it’s hurt. If you can’t get all three of these elements into your photo, include as many as you can. Please send high resolution landscape-style (horizontal) photos. We prefer the size of the image to be less than 2Mb.

Telling your story

People want to know what happened at your Global Earth Exchange! Here’s some information you might share:

• why you chose this particular place
• who participated
• what you did
• how people felt about the experience
• what kind of gift you made for your place

You can tell your story as a poem, as a collection of quotes from participants… whatever feels right.

Thank you for joining the world and Daring to Bear Witness to the Earth!

Trebbe