Parliamentary Resources

Update

National / International Organizations

• • NAP - National Association of Parliamentarians - 888-NAP-2929 - www.parliamentarians.org

  • AIP - American Institute of Parliamentarians - 888-664-0428 - www.aipparl.org

  • Dahms Memorial Foundation Annual Workshop - www.dahmsfoundation.org

  • ACPL - American College of Parliamentary Lawyers - http://parliamentarylawyers.org/

Parliamentarians' Web Sites with Parliamentary Resources

• • Shane Dunbar (WA), MEd, PRP https://pzen.northwest.net | Mnemonics

  • Michael Malamut (MA), JD, PRP, CPP-T www.michaelmalamut.com | articles | resources

  • Paul McClintock (WA), PRP, CP-T www.paulmcclintock.com | resources | links | quotes

  • Jim Slaughter (NC), JD, PRP, CPP-T www.jimslaughter.com | Jim's articles | NAP NP article database | brainteasers | quotations

  • Sarah E. Merkle (AL), JD, PRP, CPP-T, The Law of Order Blog - www.lawoforderblog.com

Parliamentary Authorities

• • Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised | website | Q&A Forum | FAQ | Official Interpretations | Amazon.com Search Inside In Brief

  • The Standard Code of Parliamentary Procedure | Amazon.com Search Inside

  • AIP Standard Code of Parliamentary Procedure | Amazon.com Search Inside

  • Meeting Procedures | Amazon.com Search Inside

Motion Charts

• • Jim Slaughter's - RONR | TSC

  • Michael Malamut's - 11 different parliamentary authorities (PDF)

  • Shane Dunbar's - Rules for Motions

Electronic Meetings

• • Electronic Meetings (PDF) - collection of articles from NAP's National Parliamentarian and AIP's Parliamentary Journal

• NAP's 2005 Report on eMeetings

  • Rules for Electronic Meetings, NAP bookstore

  • Electronic Voting: Computerized polls may save money, protect privacy, by Lorrie Faith Cranor

  • The Complete Idiot's Guide to Robert's Rules, chapter 22 "Electronic Meetings"

  • Waddell's Rules of Order for Cyberland

  • Intro to various types of virtual meetings

• Web conferencing services compared

  • "6 Best Free Online Meeting Tools" Jan 2011

  • Adobe Connect (see below under "Attachments" for a set of special rules of order for Adobe Connect, currently used by the NAP Board of Directors)

  • NAP special rules for electronic meetings

• ASHRAE eMeetings

  • Docs from the 2012 electronic meetings webinar by Mary Loose DeViney, PRP:

  • - Electronic+Meetings.pdf

  • - Electronic+Meetings+AIPemeet5.pdf

  • - NAP+White+Paper+ElectronicMeetings.pdf

Voting Online

• • ADoodle.org - free anonymous voting

  • SurveyMonkey.com

  • BallotBin.com

• ElectionBuddy.com

• Ranked-ballot voting calculator

• FreeCountry.com - Free Polls, Voting Booths, Online Surveys, Online Ballot Boxes

  • Go2poll - a Free Remotely Hosted Poll Service

• Shambles.net's links to poll sites

Voting Methods

• Voting Systems

• Approval Voting

• Borda Count

• Condorcet

• Instant Runoff Voting