Status update on projects

Contents:

1. Practicing and promoting better conduct on the Internet.
2. Cheering and refreshing the down-cast.
3. Overcoming my own prejudices.
4. Cross-pollination across ideological boundaries.
5. Cross-pollination between professional scholars and other people.
6. Practicing and promoting blogging.
7. Helping people find and use resources.
8. Finding better ways to serve on the Internet.
9. Finding ways to project the framework for action into Internet neighborhoods.
10. Studying and practicing the ideas on the Baha'i Internet Agency Web site.
11. Learning to be a better friend.
12. Helping stigmatized people navigate through the cruelty.
13. Scrapbook of individual initiatives.

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1. Practicing and promoting better conduct on the Internet.

I've made a list of ideas about what individuals might be able to do to help calm the tempest of Baha'is maligning each other across ideological divides. I want to practice each one myself for a while, before I try to find other people to work on it with me.

2. Cheering and refreshing the down-cast.

For now I'm just focusing on a few friends and people in my family, trying to learn to be a better friend. Practicing fellowship with stigmatized people will be part of the first project above.

3. Overcoming my own prejudices.

Still uncovering more, every time I get free of some.

4. Cross-pollination across ideological boundaries.

That will be part of the first project.

5. Cross-pollination between professional scholars and other people.

I've started studying some works of scholars, and I'm planning to discuss them with other people.

6. Practicing and promoting blogging.

Practicing, here. Reading some blogs, and linking to some from facebook.

7. Helping people find and use resources.

I've found someone I might be able to work with on that.

8. Finding better ways to serve on the Internet.

I might help with the Ruhi Resources Web site, and/or the Ruhi Institute Web site.

9. Finding ways to project the framework for action into Internet neighborhoods.

One of the ideas for the first project above involves some training on the Internet, that could become part of this project.

10. Studying and practicing the ideas on the Baha'i Internet Agency Web site.

Off and on, mostly off.

11. Learning to be a better friend.

I've thought of some ideas of things some of my friends and family members are doing, that I could try doing too, but I haven't actually started doing any of them.

12. Helping stigmatized people navigate through the cruelty.

Not currently walking with any stigmatized people. Trying to learn to be a better friend to some other people in my life. I'll be walking with stigmatized people again, when I go into some protest forums, as part of the first project above.


13. Scrapbook of individual initiatives.

I started working on the pages, and found a few examples, but right now it's on hold, while I work on the backbiting problem.