Excerpt from Membership Practices of Local Cooperatives With the increased competition for members time and attention, and the growing difficulty of getting members out to meetings, coopera tive leaders may need to rely more heavily on direct mail and other media to keep their members in formed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Educational Practices of Farmer Cooperatives When given an Opportunity to check 12 devices useful in maintaining favorable relations with members, the replying cooperatives attached about equal importance to annual meetings and personal contacts. Rank ing next were monthly publications, local discussion groups, circular letters, and periodical reports. Following these were radio programs, all family programs, cooperative Future Farmers of America and 4-h Club projects, and educational exhibits. Mentioned least frequently were discussion outlines. In addition to the above, the responding cooperatives wrote in a number of other devices found helpful in maintaining good membership relations. Leading this supplementary list were educational meetings, courteous and efficient employees, motion pictures and film strips, member participa tion, and interagency relations. Used to a lesser extent were special publications, educational tours, market news services, social events, contests and awards, women and youth programs, magazine and newspaper articles, and educational-type advertisements. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.

The book is not just multidisciplinary but interdisciplinary, linking, for example, the architecture of monuments with epigraphy, language concepts, and human events.

Information technology has been used in organisational settings and for organisational purposes such as accounting, for a half century, but IT is now increasingly being used for the purposes of mediating and regulating complex activities in which multiple professional users are involved, such as in factories, hospitals, architectural offices, and so on. The economic importance of such coordination systems is enormous but their design often inadequate. The problem is that our understanding of the coordinative practices for which these systems are developed is deficient, leaving systems developers and software engineers to base their designs on commonsensical requirements analyses. The research reflected in this book addresses these very problems. It is a collection of articles which establish a conceptual foundation for the research area of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work.