Here’s the info from the “Swap Shop” discussion of Virtual Branches at the AAUW Atlantic Regional Conference in Richmond VA, Sept 28, 2024. Feel free to post in the Comments if you have specific questions or suggestions.
- Handout on Virtual Branch Membership Numbers
- Charts are in the SlideShow
- Summaries of current online/virtual branches
Other resources
- Facebook group for AAUW Virtual Branch Conversation
- Draft of AAUW Tar Heel (NC) branch bylaws (with current mandated AAUW changes; to be approved November 2024)
- An earlier version formalized a special relationship between the state and the branch and had certain other virtual branch specific sections.
- AAUW Online/Virtual Branch Guide (2013). Some of the links are out of date, but many of the ideas still apply.
- Slides from 2012 for presentation to AAUW Nevada on virtual branches
- Blog post from 2008 describing the start of the Tar Heel (NC) Branch [Really doesn’t have much to do with “virtual”, but may shed some light on our process.]
Reading List
The first two were mentioned in the Nevada talk linked above. They are suggested as a way to start thinking differently about the branch model.
- Bowling Alone, Robert Putnam, 2000. [Revised and updated version, 2020, includes a new chapter about the influence of social media and the Internet, covered in the other two books listed here.]
- Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations, Clay Shirky, 2008.
- They Didn’t See Us Coming: The Hidden History of Feminism in the Nineties, Lisa Levenstein, 2020. [How some of the ideas of the other two books started emerging at the 1995 Beijing Conference on Women.]