Comember Networks

SOCIAL CONTEXT

“Membership” charities, churches, co-ops and civil society networks are opening digital doors for their own communities online.

“Comember” systems go further with online infrastructure for members to connect and communicate at their own discretion – for people to coordinate internal networks around their own interests.

Comembers can expect to do this organizing and capacity building in common rooms with peers who use their own names and voices – gatekeeping them, telling them, polling them isn’t enough.

The story of new comember networks is all about one very old sector of institutions – large and small social entities that have charters protecting internal democracy and actual self-governance by their comembers.

SOCIAL CONTENT

A comember network can contain any collaboration at any time but always provides two (2) core subject fields – Theory and Practice – as ongoing creative building blocks.

Comember spaces are deliberative media for comembers to become more versed and conversant in their institution’s theories and practices – in order to organize theoretical and practical contributions from the margins. 

What are you doing for comembers? How do comembers lead practices or theories as a learning community for your institution?

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Feel free to use our ideas – and tell us about the comember community you are helping. Let’s promote comember network organizing everywhere.