T Polyphilus ([info]paradoxosalpha) wrote,
@ 2008-12-20 08:09:00
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plugging our rags
A couple of OTO bodies are currently issuing the new numbers of their journals. I'm happy to say that OTO periodicals have come a long way since I joined in the early 90's, in terms of both form and content.

The Doomsayer's Digest

The Coph-Nia Wand

I was disappointed to find out during the last year that our Grand Lodge no longer requires lodges to publish, because I think that publishing serves several important functions that the Order must meet to be fully operational at the local level. Still, here we see admirable publication work being done by a camp and an oasis--provisional bodies that do not even have lodge status.

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[info]thiebes
2008-12-20 05:23 pm UTC (link)
I think that publishing serves several important functions that the Order must meet to be fully operational at the local level.

Agreed, and it seemed to be the only requirement other than doing Mass that was vaguely related to promulgation. The rationale that I've heard is that in the digital age, there are so many other forms of "publishing," that a paper journal requirement seemed outmoded. Of course, there was no new requirement made for digital publishing; on the contrary local body officers have been actively discouraged to publish their writings online.

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[info]paradoxosalpha
2008-12-20 06:42 pm UTC (link)
I'm uninterested in the impeachment of individual conversations, but if you know of any place where this discouragement has figured as something like policy, please let me know where. That would be wrong, and I'd pursue its repair.

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[info]thiebes
2008-12-20 07:01 pm UTC (link)
Nothing in the form of written policy. Just general attitudes among many USGL officers and individual conversations where local officers have been told e.g. that they should consider deleting their blogs, that LiveJournal is the source of all our troubles, etc.

I think we'd hear the same things about email if it weren't so obviously necessary to our current level of development. It's too bad that more people don't see how LiveJournal, Myspace, Facebook, Meetup.com and other online venues have significantly contributed to our development in the last 5 years. Especially considering that the value of paper publications in the eyes of USGL has measurably dropped.

But as for written policy, there was only some direction on the leadership list that we should consult with the PIO (I think) and Br. H.W. (whose title I forget) any time local bodies do anything that represents the Order to the public -- a directive that SML has largely ignored (after seeking some clarification, and not getting much) since we do this multiple times a week and it would essentially shut us down if we were to follow the written directive to the letter.

It leads me to wonder what forms of promulgation are actively encouraged, since so much is either actively or passively discouraged. The Mass seems to me the only encouraged promulgation effort that I can find, and that only barely.

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[info]paradoxosalpha
2008-12-20 08:49 pm UTC (link)
Well, in my role as a USGL officer, I encourage promulgation of the Law among the local officers with whom I communicate, by instruction and (I'd like to think) by example.

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