reminder: Call for Articles: Communities #163: Business Ventures in Community
From: Communities Editor (communities.editorgmail.com)
Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2013 22:10:26 -0800 (PST)
Hello,

A reminder: /Communities/ magazine is still seeking articles for issue #163, "*Business Ventures in Community*." The issue will be out in June 2014.

Please send your article idea to _editor@ic.org_ <mailto:editor [at] ic.org>by *Tuesday, December 24, 2013*.

Your final article must reach us by *Friday, February 21, 2014*.

1. Theme articles: */Business Ventures in Community
/*/possible questions to address (feel free to pick and choose or innovate)/

 * Does your community operate a business or businesses collectively?
   Do individuals or subgroups operate businesses? If so, what have
   been some of the successes, challenges, and lessons of your efforts?
 * What are your experiences with any of the following endeavors in the
   context of intentional community (or within an extended community
   network or "intentional neighborhood"): conference, retreat, and/or
   event center; educational center or school; healing arts;
   consulting; mediation; facilitation; other types of service work?
 * What are your group's experiences with agriculture, silviculture, or
   other land-based activities; building construction and design;
   manufacturing; publishing; wholesale or retail marketing; art and
   craft production; internet-based businesses; or others?
 * Have you experienced conflict between cooperative ideals and
   competitive "business" values? Where does your community and the
   businesses operated within it fall on the spectrum of cooperative to
   competitive, egalitarian to hierarchical? Are you internal and
   external economic philosophies and practices aligned? Are pay scales
   level, or is there income disparity?
 * Do your businesses express the core values of your community?
 * How do businesses in community connect communitarians to the larger
   world?
 * What are the business legacies and lessons of long-standing or
   historical intentional communities?
 * What roles can communities and communitarians play in creating
   life-affirming, sustainable models of business in today's and
   tomorrow's world?

Please remember that we are looking for stories, personal experiences, and concrete examples in your responses--­these are what will make your ideas and observations most "real" and relevant to readers.

[Please forward this email to anyone you think has a good story on this theme for /Communities/.]

2. We are also seeking articles about:

 * Creating community in your neighborhood;
 * Starting a new community;
 * Process and communication issues in community; and
 * Seeking community to join.

Suggested submission length is from 300 to 2500 words. We invite submissions ranging from short vignettes to extensively-developed articles, and also invite suggestions of recommended resources and article leads. We're seeking articles written in a reader-friendly, popular-magazine style, rather than in an academic style. We ask contributors to share stories and experiences, not just ideas; write about challenges, not just successes; and describe specific situations that will help your story come alive for the reader. Before you start writing, please check _http://communities.ic.org/submit.php_ <http://communities.ic.org/submit.php> or contact us for our full Writers' Guidelines--­and let us know your article idea so that we can give feedback on how it may fit into /Communities/. Contact Chris Roth at _editor@ic.org_ <mailto:editor [at] ic.org>.

If you don’t want to write an article but want to submit photos, please check _http://communities.ic.org/submit.php_ <http://communities.ic.org/submit.php> or contact Yulia Zarubina at _layout@ic.org_ <mailto:layout [at] ic.org>for our Photo Guidelines.

*I. What "Submitting an Article"* *Means.* We will promise to read your article, but we may respectfully decline it and not publish it, or save it and publish it in a future issue. We also reserve the right to edit, shorten, or revise your article. Most of the time we contact authors about this ahead of time and get their comments, corrections, etc.

*II. Getting Permission Ahead of Time.* Please send the article only when you have permission from anyone you need it from, such as fellow community members. We endeavor to present a diversity of views on community, including controversial or critical views, in a respectful and cooperative manner. If your article may generate controversy or strong reactions, or if the group(s) would want the chance to review it, please share your draft with group members to get their input before sending it to us. (Please see our Writers' Guidelines for additional details.)

*III. Publication Rights.* Once your article appears in /Communities/, we own first North American Publishing Rights. This means your article appears in /Communities/ the first time it appears in North America. In addition to appearing in /Communities/, your article may also appear on our website or in future compilations. You retain all other rights to it. If you'd like to use it elsewhere, you can, and we would appreciate your using an attribution line saying, "This article first appeared in /Communities: Life in Cooperative Culture/, (date); for further information on /Communities/: _communities.ic.org_ <http://www.ic.org/>."

*IV. Photos.* If we publish your article, we want to accompany it with compelling images that illustrate your subject. You know your subject best, so we are appealing to you for images. If others in your community or group like taking pictures, they might already have great images to go with your article. If you would like to submit an article but cannot supply photos, that's fine; however, please give us plenty of advance notice so that if we use your article we can get an illustrator. Please check _http://communities.ic.org/submit.php_ <http://communities.ic.org/submit.php> or email us for our full Photo Guidelines. We also appreciate an author photo to accompany your short (several-line) author bio.

Thanks for your contributions!

Chris Roth
Editor, /Communities/
_editor [at] ic.org <mailto:editor [at] ic.org>_

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Editor, /Communities/
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