The Membership Project

This site aims to provide a collaborative commons for anyone interested in exploring how the social web may bring changes to organisations and our ideas of belonging. More here on the project, and some questions and answers.

You can:

• Comment on any items - anonymously or not. Real names preferred.
• Create an account, which enables you to contribute items. There'll be some delay while a real person activates it, and sends you an email with details. Please use Firstname Secondname as your username.
  
• Ask to get more involved in the project, by dropping a comment into an appropriate item or using the contact options.

Much of the content is in the form of short blog items by different contributors, tagged with keywords. Clicking a tag in the right sidebar takes you to items under that keyword. Each item will say who authored it, and clicking on that will take you to other items they have written.

Updates on project development are in Project news, top of the page. New content there lists recent blog items and pages, and Comment a page of comments. If you get lost, have a look at the site map, where you will find all the RSS feeds enabling you to follow content. If you aren't sure about RSS, do spend three minutes on this excellent video by Commoncraft below. You can also sign up for daily email update in the left sidebar.

Once you sign up for an account and log in, you'll get an extra personal menu in the left sidebar with access to your account and a 'create content' link.

If you click 'my account' you can change your password, upload a picture, make youself contactable, and ensure you get email alerts to any thread where you create or post a comment.

To contribute, just click 'create content', 'blog entry' and fill in the fields, preview, then click submit. Your blog item will appear on the front page, and in your personal blog space.