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Internet Community

In a Britain Yearly Quaker Meeting (BYM) context

The material on this page was originally part of QuakerNet.org.uk, but now Quakernet has been laid down it has been copied here and integrated with the rest of this site.

Quaker Business and Virtual Community

Discussion papers considering the theoretical and practical aspects of information technology, and how it can be used or adapted to meet the temporal and spiritual needs of the Religious Society of Friends:

Quaker Business on the Web?- Draft minute / report by Paul Kingston, discussing whether it is feasible to use the web for "real" Quaker Business (summarising email list discussions). RTF Version (32 KB).
Virtual Communities - Part 1, slides by Paul Kingston (ppt, 4.028 KB).
Virtual Communities - Part 2,slides by John Wragg (ppt, 76 KB).

BYM Website Strategy

Website Procurement Project

The BYM Quaker Communications Department established in 2004 a project for the replacement of the existing www.quaker.org.uk web site by a content management based system.

Requirements Workshop

A Website Strategy Workshop was run as a Special Interest Group at YM 2004 in London on Saturday 29th May 2004. The information captured has been re-sorted, and supplemented with material from other sources. Please see:

BYM Website Requirements Notes (doc, 138 KB), by John Wragg (with input from Nik Dadson), revised V4 21st June 2004. This document presents a potential content and navigation structure for replacement BYM Websites, for discussion purposes.

Philosophical Discussion

Does the Internet Make Us Lonely? by Jacob Nielson
Jacob Nielson's column on on-line communities (1997).
Rheingold - Virtual community issues.
A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy, article by Clay Shirky
Quaker Ranter, Martin Kelley's homepage, blog and writings.

Syndicated

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Independent Quaker journalism since 1843 - issue 02 January 2009

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The Seven Cooperative Principles – 1995
The original Rochdale Principles, on which the cooperative movement was founded, are revised from time to time.

Time for a change
As we watch with growing distaste the spectacle of bankers shifting blame for current financial calamity, some of us are asking: is there an alternative to the kind of capitalism we have grown up with...

Cooperatives: has their time come?
George MacLeod, founder of the Iona Community, likened parts of the world to a swamp in which many people were bogged down.

Economics as if people mattered
I spend quite a lot of time working with mostly Quaker groups, exploring their visions for a sustainable world and how we might get there.

Workplace democracy
Why did Ove Arup, Ernest Bader, Philip Baxendale, David Erdal, John Spedan Lewis and Walter Swann (to name a few that come readily to mind) sell, or in a few cases give, successful companies – that th...

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