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The quarterly meetings themselves — when we meet to worship, socialize, and consider business together — are the best occasions for contact and communication. (Sometimes we meet 3x per year.) In addition, many of us visit among the Monthly Meetings, share oversight and common projects, and connect in other ways.
This website and other modes of electronic communication are provided in order to support these activities.
Our website mixes static pages, which are updated occasionally by the 'web clerk,' and dynamic pages that include content provided by others in the Quarter. The site is hosted as part of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting's website, which provides 'pMachine' functionality that allows anyone with authorized access to edit current listings and to add new material.
Pages with 'dynamic content' have link addresses (URLs) that end with ".php". Currently, we have two such pages, with three sets of dynamic content:
For more information on posting dynamic content directly to these pages, please contact the web clerk. Website guidelines, drafted a few years ago, are available here for reference.
Philadelphia Quarter has a 'listserv'-type email list and an interactive calendar for those who join the Yahoo Group Philadelphia Quarter Friends with a Yahoo user ID. The email list by itself is also available for those who would like to join without a Yahoo ID — see below.
On the Yahoo Groups calendar, registered users can enter information about events at their meetings. The calendar can be displayed in views by day, week, month and year. Also, events can be set to send out a "reminder" to the email list, up to two weeks in advance (though perhaps this option should be used sparingly).
Friends in Philadelphia Quarter are urged to join the Yahoo Groups listserv for Philadelphia Quarter. A message sent to "PhiladelphiaQuarterFriends@yahoogroups.com" goes to all subscribers, but only if it comes from a subscriber. Clearly, the more people who subscribe, the more useful this list becomes as a tool for getting word of Quarterly Meeting business out to people who need to know about it.
Two ways to subscribe:
1) You can use a Yahoo user ID, which is free. If you already have one, use it to set up your membership in the group. If you don't, your first step would be to establish a Yahoo user ID, after which you use it to join this group. Click on the link above, then on the "Join This Group!" button (on right side).
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2) If you don't want a Yahoo user ID, you can put your email address in the slot below, and click the button.
What follows is a bit complicated. (Think about it: Yahoo is trying at every turn to get people to join Yahoo, with a Yahoo user ID, etc., because they make their money by exposing users to advertisements and other commercial activity.)
When you enter your email address above, you'll get a confirmation email at that address from yahoogroups.com. You can respond either via email or by clicking on a web link provided. Click on the web link, and you'll get an invitation to "Join the group" by getting a Yahoo ID (see sample). Ignore that. At the bottom of the page is an "alternate option" to "join the mailing list". Click that link, and you'll get a small form to let the moderator know your name and meeting affiliation. Fill it out, click 'Continue,' and she can approve your subscription request. Generally within 1-2 days you'll be subscribed, "email only," to the Yahoo Groups list.
To unsubscribe:
No matter how you joined the email list, to unsubscribe you need only send an email to PhiladelphiaQuarterFriends-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com from the address you subscribed with. (There are other ways to unsubscribe, but this is the simplest.)
Web tools
The Philadelphia Quarter's Yahoo Group has an archive of past emails, a calendar and other web-based "tools" for those who join the group using a Yahoo ID. However, the email listserv is the main 'Yahoo Groups' function that we're using at present.
This page last updated on 30 October, 2007.