Speaker and Workshop Leader

Martin has given workshops and panel presentations on tech issues and on renewal movements in the Religious Society of Friends.

Martin Kelley
Publisher, QuakerQuaker.org.
Author, Web 2.0 Mash-Ups & Niche Aggregators (O'Reilly Media, 2008).

Biographies

TECH:
Martin Kelley is a Philadelphia area webs designer who has been building online communities since 1995. An early adopter of user-created media, he was blogging in 1997 and picks up every social media service. In 2008 O'Reilly Media published "Web 2.0 Mashups and Niche Aggregators," his first published tech publication. A professional web developer and consultant, he builds sites and writes about tech issues on MartinKelley.com.

QUAKER:
Martin Kelley is a South Jersey Friend with a love out of outreach and ministry and a passion for looking afresh at Friends' testimonies, language and practices. Before becoming an independent web developer, Martin Kelley worked for Friends General Conference and Friends Journal. He is the publisher of QuakerQuaker.org, a community site for the Convergent Friends movement. He thinks the Quaker message is more relevant than ever but worries we're not being bold enough to gather George Fox's and Isaiah's "great people."

Contact

Email: martink@martinkelley.com
Phone: (609) 365-0123

Forthcoming Speaking Engagements:

Co-leader, "Convergent Friends and the New Monastics." Pendle Hill Conference Center, Wallingford, PA. Scheduled May 2010.

Speaker, "An Introduction to Convergent Friends." Salem Quarterly Meeting. Greenwich, NJ. September 13, 2009.

Past Workshops and Presentations

Facilitator, "Friends Testimonies, What Canst Thou Say?" Two-part session. Young Friends Summer Gathering (Philadelphia Yearly Meeting). Camp Onas, Ottsville, PA. August 25, 2009.

Co-leader, "Reclaiming the Power of Primitive Quakerism." Weekend workshop. Ben Lomond Friends Center, California. February 2009.

Presenter, "Friends Schools and Web 2.0" (video). Panel discussion for the Friends Council on Education. January 2009.

Presenter, Religion and Technology Teachers Peer Network (Friends Council on Education). December 2007. Also available as Google Slideshow Presentation

Teacher, "Quakerism 101". four-session course for Moorestown (NJ) Friends Meeting, October -November 8, 2006.

Co-faciliator, On Fire: Renewing Quakerism Through a Covergence of Friends. Interest group, FGC Gathering. July 2006.

Invited Guest, Quakerism classes, William Penn Charter School, April 2006.

Leader, Food for Fire weekend workshop, New York Yearly Meeting's Powell House. February 2006.

Co-leader, Strangers to the Covenant (five sessions), workshop for high-school Friends, FGC Gathering. July 2005.

Teacher, Quakerism 101 (six sessions), Medford (NJ) Friends Meeting. September-November, 2004.

Teacher, "Living in the Light" Quakerism 101 course (one session), Central Philadelphia (PA) Friends Meeting. March 2003.

See also: Publications and Media List