#awkwardlyzen

So, week 3 brought no real new writing or Social Media Branding experiences. Instead I will write about my first formal document that I am creating for an online community called Awkwardly Zen (AZ). Currently, their platform is on Meetup. These are people that get together to discuss, dive into, and experience spirituality together.

The owner of this community, Ari, mentioned the fact that AZ needs to develop a code of ethics due to their growing popularity. I saw this as an opportunity and immediately got in contact with her to help create the document. She was very excited about this prospect and started discussing her ideas and concerns with me, also her hope of developing an ethics committee. I volunteered to do some preliminary research and sit on the committee.

Being a spiritual person myself, I was aware of a couple of other communities that utilize different or in-person platforms. I started by reaching out to them and inquiring about their ethics documents; for members, leaders, and the organizations.  After reviewing these, I decided some pillars would be a good approach and researched articles surrounding the pillars or principals of spiritual practice. Finally, I looked at ethical guideline for technical communicators as a foundation for business/leadership ethics.

I gathered all of this information together and comprised a collection of principals or pillars on which an ethics code could be developed. Below is what I have gathered.

It is upon these principals that the Awkwardly Zen Code of Ethics will written. I am looking forward to continuing work on this project and many more in the future. I will try and journal on this topic as the project progresses.