A few years ago, a rash of articles were published in the National Parliamentarian and the Parliamentary Journal concerning how parliamentary procedure could be applied to electronic meetings. In particular, the focus was on asynchronous electronic meetings, wherein the participants would make, debate, and vote on motions via e-mail over a period of days and [...]

Robert’s Rules of Order Newly Revised is one of the most popular parliamentary authorities in the English-speaking world, and is the latest manifestation of of a book that has been around for more than 130 years. Since the beginning, the authors have received questions from readers about circumstances not quite covered in the book, [...]