The last thing you want is for members of your community to feel excluded because they don’t have access to the internet or aren’t great with computers.

Over the years, I’ve lived in a lot of different Baha’i communities and every one is different. My current community is especially interesting to me because it’s quite tech-savvy. In particular, we use Google’s Apps services to organize a variety of administration and activity. So I thought I would share some ideas on how to do this for your own community.

As you may know, Google offers a ton of different free services beyond its core search engine product. There’s a whole suite of products which are useful to Baha’i community administration and organization. In particular Google Calendar, Google Docs and Google Sites. Here’s how you can use them:

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The Center For The Bahai faith was burglarized sometime between Wednesday night and Thursday afternoon. Members tell KKTV 11 News they held a meeting Wednesday night that ended around 10:30 and arrived at the church Thursday around 4 p.m. for another meeting. That's when they discovered someone had broken and destroyed much of their property.

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Armen’s job at the pizza place didn’t last. He walked back down the state Employment Development Department to look for his next job. He got something after a few days. This job was not in Santa Cruz at all, but up in the Santa Cruz Mountains near the community called Bonny Doon. He’d need a bike. It was a long, strenuous ride up the Empire Grade, a road that starts at the UC campus and climbs high into the mountains. The job would be at the encampment of what was known around Santa Cruz as “the memo cult.” It sounded a little weird, but knowing Santa Cruz itself to be weird, and knowing that five bucks is five bucks, Armen didn’t think twice.

Armen found out that the members of the memo cult were fond of telling others about their religion, even a laborer like Armen—especially a laborer like Armen. They preferred to be called Recipients, short for the formal designation of their organization, “The Letter Day Recipients of the Memoranda of the Men on the Mountain.” They told him all about the memos for which their religion was named. There were six men—six was their holy number—who lived on a holy mountain. These clean-shaven greybeards would write up a memo every year, and sometimes they’d issue an additional memo for special occasions, say for instance, a bad day on Wall Street.

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People ... are being made to study the Joint New Year’s Editorial and the greatness of Kim Jong Eun in the morning and afternoon, with the sessions packed so tightly together without a break that people are just exhausted.

The North Korean authorities have completed the criticism sessions which began after the mourning period for Kim Jong Il and begun to punish those who transgressed during the highly orchestrated mourning events.

Daily NK learned from a source from North Hamkyung Province on January 10th, “The authorities are handing down at least six months in a labor-training camp to anybody who didn’t participate in the organized gatherings during the mourning period, or who did participate but didn’t cry and didn't seem genuine.”

Furthermore, the source added that people who are accused of circulating rumors criticizing the country’s 3rd generation dynastic system are also being sent to re-education camps or being banished with their families to remote rural areas.

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