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Hammond River Institute (HRI) is a non-profit organization founded in the valley of Hammond River in New Brunswick Canada - but looking to a world wide problem - that of the "Freelance" Professional worker who must not only find and negotiate their next contract on a regular basis (sometimes daily) - but also must execute their work without the support of the infrastructure that regular employees have provided by the company they work for.
Before the advent of the Internet this was the domain of high demand specialists who spent years developing their personal and professional networks and supply chain. However - it appears that in the future - this will become the normal way to work for many people.
HRI hopes to make that a less stressful and more profitable lifestyle for those who choose it (willingly or not) by finding ways to get real work done by distributed teams connected in some cases - only by the Internet.
Who does this?
- the many single parent or out of town Moms and Mr Moms who have college degrees but choose to put their children first.
- the many retired or disabled professionals who don't want to or can't work full time - but would still like to keep up their skills and make a buck or two.
- the young person who doesn't have the experience their job market demands and needs a way to get it.
- the moonlighter - who has permission from his employer to moonlight. <ahem>.
- the entrepreneur who is trying to kludge together the "Next Big Thing" but doesn't have anyone to help them.
- the people who just don't get along in office environments - because they don't "drink, cuss or chew and don't hang out with those that do".
- people who live in beautiful places like along the Hammond River and don't want to move to town.
- and - Hey - I dunno - lots of people have their own reasons.....
phill.
For a list of all HRI sites currently accessible to you check the Google Sites and Google Drive home pages using your current gmail account name.
note to reader: This site describes a more or less mature Hammond River Institute - which at time of writing of this note (July 2013) it was definitely not. In fact "Project Club" has not held its first meeting yet and it is meant to be the precursor to HRI.
Someday I hope to remove this note.
phill.
23/08/18 update: The hri05k project (i.e. the "Hammon River Institute Project") now has a experimental YouTube channel with some admittedly awful videos - but YOU are welcome to join the effort if you can help make them better.
22/03/02 update: This site was originally created in what is now called "Google Classic sites" - which was pretty clean and straight forward in that Marissa Mayer style that made Google's products so popular. After creating about 50 Google Classic sites - most of which were prototype Special Interest Group sites - Google decided that Classic sites weren't (who knows) and telegraphed all the site owners that the "New Google Sites" were going to be coming and that the Classic Google sites would be deprecated in like - 6 months or something.
Succumbing to all of the death threats from existing site owners Google has made a way to transition from Classics sites to New sites and has mostly left things alone for the last 3 years or so since they started their transition. However - the migration form Classic to New has resulted in the mishmash you are currently seeing on these sites. Eventually - they will all be transitioned - maybe - perhaps - here's hoping.
phill2
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