Character Assassination
Most people do not assassinate the character of others. If you see this behavior in someone you have contact with, consider being guarded in their presence and avoid being alone with them.
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Brislets Projects
WEB3 monetising community
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Community-Based Marketing: The Future of Business : Social Media Examiner
Read More WEB3 monetising communitydocument archive
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Archiving documents needs to be quick, simple and easy because not everyone who manages BrisLETS website has a lot of Wordpress skills
Read More document archiveGmail is blocking our mail
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Gmail don’t care, we are working on it
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1180878222106353/posts/2141776126016553/
Read More Gmail is blocking our maileveryone wants a return to community
https://www.deviantart.com/ellenent
BUT
We seem to have forgotten the social skills that made community work
Like “being polite”
First outline – can you help?
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Index
Table of Contents
License 1
Authorship 1
Index 2
Introduction 2
This Document 2
The CES 2
The BrisLETS Management Committee 2
Managing the BrisLETS Community Exchange System (QLD) 2
Managing our Website 3
Access; Admins. Editors 3
Making Posts and assigning categories 3
Publishing the Newsletter 3
Backups 3
Getting Help 3
Newsletters 3
Facebook Groups 3
Trade days at The Peace Hall 3
Managing Membership 3
Terms and conditions 3
The Constitution 3
Promotion 3
Managing Conflict 4
Complaints Policy 4
Best practices in Trading 4
CES for Traders 4
It seems to me that relationship doesn’t require me to join a gang
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Management Support Team
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I find it interesting, the old MC delegated a lot of authority to the Management Support Team. The management support team are the workers We have 4 voting committee positions and 7 management support team roles I actually think this is a very good idea, the people who do the work make the decisions about…
Read More Management Support Team…on administrating and moderating FB groups for BrisLETS
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1) We have to make it a safe environment so there should be NO personal attacks. Complaints are another issue but a complaint requires more than just attacking someone in our public forums
2) Admin can’t just delete post and comments that irritate or distress them, these are official records
3) Records need to maintained, even if someone’s comments or posts are removed there needs to be a record
Read More …on administrating and moderating FB groups for BrisLETSAntonia Scatton is framing the debate
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I think there is a lot in the idea of “defensive messaging”, if we are constantly defending ourselves – shit sticks
We are better to support “bodily autonomy” for women than defend against “foetal right”
Read More Antonia Scatton is framing the debateBlemish
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I was trained in TA, seriously, for work as well not just as a hobby. I particularly like the ideas about “games” ‘Blemish’ – this falls into the party games category and is a game in which you are insecure about yourself and cannot feel comfortable in any interactions until you have found some sort…
Read More BlemishA complaints process for BrisLETs
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A complaints process for BrisLETs
On our website we acknowledge the need for a complaint/mediation policy and announce our intention to attend to this as resources become available
Well, it’s a good day to start, I’m not sure of a process but here are some resources
Read More A complaints process for BrisLETsDemands versus requests
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People rarely respond willingly to demands while they might respond to requests and the key idea is it is OK if they don’t. “We can help others trust that we are requesting, not demanding, by indicating that we would only want the person to comply if he or she can do so willingly. Thus we…
Read More Demands versus requestsWhat is community (one)
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I am having this chat with someone about BrisLETS “community”The young people are yearning for community I think you are part of a community if you get COVID and two people check in to see how you are and if you need something ? See What is community two
Read More What is community (one)What is community (two)
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I also think that we have been conned into buying services as a substitute for community – age care, support workers etc Q: Does your $20 BrisLETs fee buy you a lifetime community ?A: NO, you can’t buy community you have to reach out to people and build a community. It can’t be couriered to…
Read More What is community (two)our official and latest T&C
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– a lot of decision-making is delegated to the “management support team” i.e the people who do the actual work
– that several of the proposition has proven to be impractical, like returning account balances to zero when people leave
– “administrative fees” have never worked, we end up billing inactive accounts
– clause 18, is bizarre, I would imagine the intent is to ask people not to pretend to represent BrisLETS in public forums as it is, it attempts to control activities that BrisLETS has no control over.
Read More our official and latest T&CWhat are policies and procedures?
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Policies are a set of agreed guidelines about what and why our organisation does what it doesProcedures are about how to do these things. They need to be documented and published and they are usually open to change as circumstance change Writing policies and procedures usually takes some particular skills and all stakeholders should be…
Read More What are policies and procedures?I admired the process that Kelly Watts used to get agreement from the committee to spend association funds
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https://www.facebook.com/groups/1180878222106353/posts/2078167052377461/ 28 Resolutions of management committee without meeting (1) A written resolution signed by each member of the management committee is as valid and effectual as if it had been passed at a committee meeting that was properly called and held. (2) A resolution mentioned in sub-rule (1) may consist of several documents in like…
Read More I admired the process that Kelly Watts used to get agreement from the committee to spend association fundsHow should we manage passwords ?
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I think -roy- next step This needs be documented as a procedure put into actionandIn a timely manner, procedures should be approved by the MC and published as part of the association’s documentation (updated oct 31)(updated jan 29)
Read More How should we manage passwords ?On the perfect committee
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A committee is best when people barely know it exists.Not so good when people obey and acclaim it.Worse when they despise it. But of a good committee. who talks little,when their work is done,their aim fulfilled, they (the people) will say: ‘We did it ourselves.’ Misquoted from Lao-tse (c. 565 B.C.) So:
Read More On the perfect committeeDealing with disrespect
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Eleanor Sharman 23/October/2022 Author 1. The first stage of addressing disrespect is to ‘call it out’. This involves telling someone specifically and objectively what it was that YOU experienced that was inappropriate. You make an ‘I’ statement. Eg “I find it………(offensive /inaccurate etc) when you say ……(repeat the specific words or observed behaviour).” 2. Next,…
Read More Dealing with disrespectkeeping records on forums
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I’m not a lawyer but it appears to me that these forums are official records of the proceedings of a legally incorporated association. and that falsifying records made in this place, like deleting someone’s comments would be naughty. So how should admins moderate comments that are abusive or attack other people? 1) if a group…
Read More keeping records on forumsQ: Is it OK to record private converstaion in Queensland
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A: Yes, for personal useThere is no requirement to inform others or ask permission However, we need to be careful about who we share these recordings with https://www.gnl.com.au/articles/2021/march/recording-conversations/
Read More Q: Is it OK to record private converstaion in Queenslandwhat do we do now?
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I read Kelly’s editorial and trading day agenda item with interest, I agree wholeheartedly I would like to contribute my viewpoint. Kelly says “We want to get some feedback from you all about the Admin Account going into the Red for an infinite number of units as we voted for no levies on buys and…
Read More what do we do now?On trust
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The poem goes When love has gone there is always justiceWhen justice is gone there is always forceWhen force has gone there is always love someone Most of us would prefer to live in a loving trusting environment but things happen and so we cooperate with each other based on law and professionalism. It works……
Read More On trustDigital Signatures are pretty easy
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At base, we can just use a scanned handwritten signature, like this.
Read More Digital Signatures are pretty easyWe need a members-only area?
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Learn how to set up a membership area on your website using built-in features of WordPress in this nifty step-by-step tutorial!
Let’s say that you (or your client) want to set up a membership area on a WordPress site with little to no money to spend on web development (sounds familiar?)
Whenever I hear someone mention that they want to set up a members-only area on their site (it happens a lot when you mingle with businesses who want to go ‘fully digital’, trust me!), the first thing I want to do is find out what they need and want to achieve.
Do they really need a fully automated membership site hosted on a dedicated server with all the bells and whistles, or just a basic way to protect access to some content for a specific user group?
What are the powers and duties of the MC
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Having searched the constitution and surveyed the act I see no scope for mandates or orders in our constitution?No powers only duties President 22 Meetings of the management committee (9) The president is to preside as chairperson at a managementcommittee meeting.34 3) At each general meeting—(a) the president is to preside as chairperson; and(b) if…
Read More What are the powers and duties of the MCAs a legal association we need to have a dispute resolution process
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To strengthen your association’s ability to manage disputes, we recommend that you:
- appoint a member to be in charge of receiving and dealing with complaints
- set up a system to record, track and monitor complaints
- keep a record of any complaint that goes to mediation or court.
You should also consider adopting a grievance procedure. If you do not have a grievance procedure, the OFT has a draft example which you can use.
Read More As a legal association we need to have a dispute resolution processOnly hurts the one’s that give a stuff.
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I used to work with Richmond Fellowship, which at the time was a therapeutic communityEvery morning we would have a therapeutic group. One morning someone said “I am very angry with someone here but I’m not saying who it is” All day long we thought about it, is it me?, what did I do?Every one…
Read More Only hurts the one’s that give a stuff.Kendal’s resignation
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Mr Morgan Chase has resigned from his appointment as Secretary in his own dramatic way He made some accusations about a “committee member”, I assume he is referring to me, he was 🙂 I have some disagreement with his claims1) Kendall was the bully he consistently refused to give me access to the systems I…
Read More Kendal’s resignationAppropriate technology
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I have experience working with small groups where they consider what business platform to adopt– Teams– Slack– Trello– Blogs My advice is DON’T Especially in the beginning, the best platform is the one that everyone knows how to use– Face to Face conversation– Email– Messenger– FB groups later as we discover efficiencies we might branch…
Read More Appropriate technologyHow to work together in small groups of volunteers ?
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I am thinking today about how to work together in small groups of volunteers Specifically in the emerging BrisLETS MC The first point for me is that we are volunteers so “directives” “orders” and coercion are a shallow bluff. If we want someone’s cooperation we need to invite it. It’s much “easier” when you hold…
Read More How to work together in small groups of volunteers ?How to handle bad faith arguements
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Once you recognise these weak tactics, you can easily outwit them
So we should focus on that relentlessly and never get distracted by bullshit, bad faith arguments.
Read More How to handle bad faith arguementsI have a censorship policy
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I don’t censor and this ain’t Facebook
If someone says something shitty
It stays here
I don’t think that our Committee members should be paid UNITS.
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Because: We are a Not For Profit and it is really unusual to pay committee members. We are NOT BP If committee members are unpaid volunteers they have a lot of legal protection under Queensland law It is a very bad look when traders are selling soap at 1UNIT and Committee members are billing the…
Read More I don’t think that our Committee members should be paid UNITS.Endgames of Bad Faith Communiction
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Some people enter into a conversation `for productive and honest reasons, “Good Faith”
Some people come for mischief, in “Bad Faith”
How do we tell the difference and what can we do about it?
Read More Endgames of Bad Faith CommunictionWe all know that calling someone an “idiot” is unaceptable
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I would like to suggest that saying “some people here are idiots” is also unacceptable
Read More We all know that calling someone an “idiot” is unaceptableA Field Guide to Bad Faith Arguments
Once you recognize these weak tactics in your mentions, you can easily outwit them
Read More A Field Guide to Bad Faith ArgumentsThe Endgames of Bad Faith Communication
Reversing the downward spiral of mutual distrust. Source: The Endgames of Bad Faith Communication
Read More The Endgames of Bad Faith Communication