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What ZNet Is

ZNet is a huge website with thousands of files and diverse facilities. The ZNet top page provides a good overview of all features and especially the newest content. ZNet is a component of Z Communications.

Subsites

ZNet subsites focus on particular places in the world, such as Iraq Watch and Mideast Watch, or on particular topics, such as Economics or Gender – as well as on types of essay such as Debates, Interviews, and Reviews, and finally also on Vision and Strategy and particularly Participatory Economics, or Parecon.

You can access all such pages quite easily from the tabbed menu system at the top of this and virtually all ZNet pages.

Translations

Volunteers have translated ZNet articles into many Languages including Spanish, Italian, Slovak, Turkish/Kurdish, German, Hindi, and more. The ZIntl link under the ZNet tab is a gateway to all these subsites.

Education

ZNet”s Instructionals and its online ZSchool and its Reading Lists, and of course its many Place and Topic subsites, among other content, provide online education.

ZNet also makes available links for the Z Media Institute, or ZMI, a summer school component of ZCom, and to Z Education Online, or ZEO, a developing online school system.

ZSpace

ZSpace is our method of providing additional services and interactivity to users. It includes Blogs, Forums, and personal pages of our Sustainers and writings, plus compendiums of member preferences, book reviews, commenting, etc., plus Lyrics, Quotes, and a mutual aid system, among many other features. Sustainers can also control their personal page, and their own customized version of ZNet and ZSpace top pages.

Navigation

You can access diverse parts of ZNet and of Z Magazine, ZMI, ZEO, ZSpace, and ZVideo by using the tabbed menu at the top of all pages, or by using the left hand menu on many pages.

For example, on this page, if you click any link to the left you will go to that "place" or "topic" or "area" page, which is the same as going to them via the tabbed menu system above.

Terms of Use

Using the web site is pretty straightforward. Like all sites, you click, you listen, view, or read, and you make use of the contents as you like. But, if you are a sustainer, there is also commenting and forums. And regarding posts to the site, there are just a few simple norms to abide.

Personal attacks and disparaging the motives of others is not acceptable. Sexism, racism, and classism, are not acceptable. Flooding the various arenas with content – commenting on piece after piece with the same basic message, is not acceptable. Hounding a person, so to speak, is not acceptable. Posting blogs so frequently and often as to crowd out others from being visible is not acceptable.

That is probably it – but mainly, common sense norms of civility and a sense of proportion about one’s own actions should guarantee that one’s participation will be perfectly appropriate.

In very rare cases, if a person violates these norms repeatedly, they will be contacted and warned, and, if it still doesn’t stop, no longer premitted to post. Interestingly, this has happened, if memory serves, four times in two decades.

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