Mash Web Design

The Friends World Committee for Consultation unites Quakers of all stripes together in joint projects and dialog. It's Americas office has the most complete listing of U.S. and Canadian Friends Meetings and Churches and now has a map to prove it! This is a mash-up of the FWCC database with Google Maps.

Because of limitations of how many data points Google can show the countries have been divided into regions. The main access page is a screen shot of a Google Map with a old fashioned imagemap overlay that allows you to select the region you want to look at. Javascript goodness shadows the currently selected region.

See it live: www.fwccamericas.org/friends

I was hired to redesign the website of a cemetery that represents a fascinating slice of South Jersey history. In the 1880s, a group of Jews escaped Russian pogroms, came to America and started a "return to the soil" movement that led to the establishment of an agricultural colony in the small Salem County crossroads of Norma, New Jersey. Before long they established Alliance Cemetery.

The new Alliance website highlights the entrance gate. The cemetery has hired a surveying company to do a detailed map of the plots and we hope to add this in with a Google Maps mash-up when the data becomes available. A detailed history and photos are also in the works.

The design is hand-coded from scratch and is probably the most tasteful design of my portfolio. The pages themselves are editable by the client using CushyCMS and the Directions page has an integrated Google Map.

Visit: AllianceCemetery.com

On a Friday my wife Julie and older son attended a rally to save a favorite church in Malaga, Gloucester County, New Jersey threatened with closure by the Diocese of Camden. By Sunday we launched Savestmarys.net. It was a weekend where I was already swamped with deadlines, so it's standard Movable Type but with all the tricks of mashed-up Web 2.0 sites to let Julie pour content in: Flickr, Youtube and Google Calendars.

Martin Kelley's work has been featured by top newspapers and tech blogs. He has given workshops and presentations on educational and Web 2.0 themes. He is available for speaking engagements and freelance writing.

Publications/Media

ReadWriteWeb (republished on NYTimes.com), Technology is Great but Are We Forgetting to Live?, January 22, 2009. Quote and citation. Read more.

Web 2.0 Mashups and Niche Aggregators, published by the O'Reilly Media Shortcuts Series. Commissioned author.

Quakers in the Blogosphere (PDF), Western Friend/Friends Bulletin, February-March 2006, editorial features Quakerquaker.org.

FGConnections, The Witness of Our Lost Twenty-Somethings, Spring 2005. Author.

Friends Journal, "The World Is Hungry for What We've Tasted," October 2006. Author.

Beliefnet.com, "Best Spiritual Blogs," August 2006. Cited QuakerQuaker.org.

Waging War on War, Washington Post, profile of a number of peace groups including Nonviolence.org.

Not Your Father's Antiwar Movement (subscription required), Atlantic Monthly, cited Nonviolence.org.

USAToday, Missiles Aren't the Answer, featured Op-Ed, November 16th, 1998. Author.

Iraqi Crisis Increases Activity on Peace Network, a major New York Times profile of Nonviolence.org, February 21, 1998.

Fellowships

Friends Institute Fellowship, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, for work on Nonviolence.org (1996).

Pickett Endowment for Quaker Leadership, helped support 2005-2006 activities that led to the creation of QuakerQuaker.org.

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

Biographies

TECH:
Martin Kelley is a Philadelphia area web 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 Philadelphia-area Friend with a love out of outreach and ministry and a passion for looking afresh at Friends' testimonies, language and practices. He is editor of Friends Journal, a monthly Quaker magazine, and publisher of the online community site, QuakerQuaker.org. An early adopter of user-created media, Martin has been building online communities since 1995; in 2008 O'Reilly Media published "Web 2.0 Mashups and Niche Aggregators." He writes about tech issues on MartinKelley.com and spirituality at QuakerRanter.org.

Upcoming Speaking Engagements:

Past Workshops and Presentations

2011:

Speaker, Abington Friends Meeting, "Lessons on Vocal Ministry from Early Friends," talk given at First-day school adult class. Jenkintown, Pa., November 6, 2011.

Class guest, Earlham School of Religion. "Writing for Today's Media Market" taught by J Brent Bill. May 24, 2011. Richmond, Ind. via video.

Panelist, Pacific Northwest Quarterly Meeting, "Simplicity, Integrity, Clarity: What is Plain Speech Today?" Washington State via video. April 16, 2011.

2010:

Speaker, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, "Finding Fellowship Between Friends Through the Internet," part of the "Friends 2.0: New Tools for Our Faith" speaker series. Arch Street Meetinghouse following Interim Meeting sessions, Philadelphia, Pa. September 11, 2010.

Panel Speaker, Writer's Conference sponsored by Quakers Uniting in Publications. Richmond, Ind., via video. April 2010.

Associate Teacher, Pendle Hill, for a weekend workshop "Convergent Friends and the New Monastics." Pendle Hill Conference Center. Wallingford, Pa. May 2010.

2009:

Speaker, "An Introduction to Convergent Friends." Salem Quarter Meeting. Greenwich, N.J. September 13, 2009.

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. Ben Lomond, Calif. February 2009.

Presenter, "Friends Schools and Web 2.0" (video). Panel discussion for Friends Council on Education. At Germantown Friends School, Philadelphia, Pa.. January 2009.

2007:

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

Co-presenter, with C Wess Daniels, for a panel on the Convergent Friends movement. Ohio Yearly Meeting annual sessions. Barnesville, Ohio, August 2007.

2006:

Teacher, "Quakerism 101". four-session course for Moorestown Friends Meeting. Moorestown, N.J. October -November 8, 2006.

Co-faciliator, On Fire: Renewing Quakerism Through a Covergence of Friends. Interest group, FGC Gathering. Tacoma, Wash., July 3, 2006.

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

Leader, Food for Fire weekend workshop, New York Yearly Meeting's Powell House conference center. Old Chatham, N.Y. February 2006.

2005:

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

2004:

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

2003:

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

See also: Publications and Media List

Contact

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

A few weeks ago, Yahoo unveiled a new mash-up service called Pipes. It's sophisticated AJAX-powered graphical interface lets you pull in XML feeds, combine them, filter them and output the result as a customized RSS feed. I've recently used it to create specialized events pages for my blog aggregator. In this series of posts I'll show you how it's done. Each post will be one part of the puzzle.