Cohousing-L Mailing List: Communities magazine Winter '03 issue

[Communities Magazine (communities]

Hello,

    I'm sending this "Call for Articles" for our Winter '03 issue, "Thiving
in Community," because you are someone who has written for Communities
magazine before, or have inquired about writing for us.  (Or you're someone
whom I'd like to write for the magazine!)

 1. We're seeking to borrow hard-copy photos or snapshots of people and or
communities to illustrate this issue. We cannot use most digital photos.
    The photos can be vertical or horizontal, black & white or color. We
return the photos after the issue is published.
    Please mail them to Communities magazine, 52 Willow Street, Marion, NC
28752.
    
    We can use digital photos if we use them very small on the page.
    OR, we can use digital photos (taken by very expensive digital cameras)
if they are 300-360 dpi at 5x7 or 8x12 size, which means the photos are of a
high enough resolution to use used as lead photos for articles, or for the
cover.

    2. We're seeking articles that touch on one or more of the following
issues:

        * What are the factors that make a community not just survive, but
thrive? Are the following some of the factors, in your experience?
        A community culture of good process and communication?
        Economic stability? Everyone has jobs or a source of income?
        The community is multi-generational? Families and extended families
live there? 
        The presence of children?
        The community regularly sings and plays music together?
        Regularly scheduled work parties?
        Other factors?

The deadline for receiving articles for the Winter issue is:

     SEPTEMBER 29TH, 2003.

    If you'd like to write an article, please let me know as soon as you can
and I'll send you our Writers Guidelines.

    Thanks very much.

    Diana Christian
    Editor, Communities magazine
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    P. S. Here's a preview of the themes for the Spring '04 issue,
"Seriously Seeking Community."


    1. If you're a member of a community:
    (1) How has it been hosting visitors? Easy, so-so or difficult? Do you
have a regular procedure for visitors to follow? Do you have an organized
way that visitors can get a sense of your community, and your community can
get a sense of them?

    (2) What's your experience been  in selecting new members? Do you have
an organized way to invite people to join you, or to respond to those who
ask to join you?

    Do you have provisional membership status before a new person becomes a
full community member?  How long is it? What kinds of procedures you do have
so you can learn about the new person's vision and values for community and
they can learn about yours?

    (3) How do you assess your method for getting new community members?
What would you change about it?

    (4) Do you have any advice for community seekers?

2. If you're seeking a community to join:
    (1) What have your experiences been in visiting communities in a process
of seeking a community to join?  Have you had to schedule visits during
vacation time?  Has it been difficult or expensive or time-consuming?
    How have the communities received you?  Have they been gracious and
accommodating?  Friendly but businesslike? Busy and brusque?

    (2) How has it been assessing communities that you're considering
joining?  

    (3) What do you use as criteria to assess your top candidates for
joining? 

    (4) How has it worked out when you've chosen one or more communities for
further visits and serious consideration?

    (5) Do you have any advice for other community seekers?


3. If you've recently joined a community:
    (1) What was your search process like?

    (2) What was it about the community you joined that drew you?

    (3) If you didn't find a community you wanted to join, tell us about it.

    (4) If you've joined one, how has the orientation process been? (IS
there an orientation process? If so, what's it been like?)

    (5) Do you have any advice for other community seekers?




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