Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: [CL] - Written Email norms?

[John Beutler (jabeutler]

LIBERTY VILLAGE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION
        E-MAIL PROTOCOL

Objective to be achieved: to have Operating Agreements on how we 
communicate by email, to be more effective and prevent upsets.

Body of proposal: That we accept the following Operating Agreements about 
using email:

General uses for email communication:

1.      To put out a Proposal before the meeting. Please respond back to 
the person/team putting out the proposal, not the whole group, to avoid 
confusion. Getting your responses, positive and negative, is important for 
the person putting out the proposal.
2.      To put an issue before the group. Again, please respond directly to 
the person putting out the issue - your response is important.
3.      To be used as a bulletin board for information, sharing, and 
passing along interesting ideas and/or information from other cohousing groups.

General Way to use email:

1 .     Respect others' opinions and feel free to disagree but don't use 
email to handle personal upsets. express hostility, badmouth others.
2.      Watch out for "we" statements. Clearly identify who the"we" is, and 
make sure you are correctly representing them. Otherwise, express opinions 
as personal.
3.      Don't send chain mail through this address.
4.      Be sensitive to people's privacy.

Procedures:

1.      Don't give out anyone's e-mail address without their permission.
2.      Member Services will put out guidelines of who decides when people 
come on and off the list.
3.      For correction in name or address, contact Cheryl Starke.
4.      Use partners@liberty village.com for business meant only for LLP 
partners. Most of the time we will use members [at] libertyvillage.com.[these 
addresses have since been changed to reduce spam]
5.      Identify business topics in the headline as BUS or BIZ
6.      If your email is down for sometime, MS Team know to assign you a 
buddy to keep you informed.
7.      Proposals are put on the list at least three days before discussion 
at a meeting. If you have not received any proposal listed in the agenda, 
please contact another member.



At 08:37 AM 10/17/2007 -0400, you wrote:
> Does anyone have a list of agreed upon community list serv email norms 
> that they would be willing to share with  us?
> We are looking for a template for our community process.
>
> Thanks so much,
>
>
> Will Stacy
> Shadowlake Village
> Blacksburg Va
>
>
>
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John Beutler
Liberty Village, MD
jabeutler [at] comcast.net
http://www.libertyvillage.com/