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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:

1. 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).
2. Virtual Communities - Part 1, slides by Paul Kingston (ppt, 4.028 KB).
3. 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

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

Links

Application Directories

1. Directory of Conferencing on the Web software - David Wooley.
2. List of Conference Hosting Services, part of the above.
   
3. VirtualCommunities Start4All

Related Sites

1. Experimental Online Meeting for Worship

Related Pages

1. IT for Quakers
2. Website Design
3. Blogs & RSS Feeds
4. BYM IT Strategies

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