Finally! Integral Websites Imminent (But Not Transcendent...)

Just a quick update that we are finally(!) nearing the launch point of a new website for Integral Institute and the global beta launch of Integral Life.  Beta is a latin term developed by the software industry that means "please don't flood our phone lines if something doesn't work."  Indeed, the technical infrastructure we inherited and had to clean up (and still do) is so complicated that it has stumped many bright technical people we've worked with in trying to do so.  But at long last IL.com will be launching beta by the end of April.  (Even so we will be spending another 6 months cleaning up back end issues on "multiplex" infrastructure.)

SPECIAL NOTE FOR EXISTING MEMBERS:  The retail price for the premium content membership in IntegralLife.com will about $15/month.  Community access is free.  On the day of launch, all of our current members (IN, ISC, etc.) at any price will be grandfathered in at their current rate.  So anyone spending $10/month at IN will get both IN and IL for $10/month.  Effectively, all valid members on the day of IL.com's launch will get IL.com for free, indefinitely (unless they cancel their membership, of course).  So our existing members get a real benefit and can decide at their preference where they want to engage integral content and community, either at IN or at IL.  (ISC will be moved over to IL entirely within the next 90 days.)

Also, the new Integral Institute website will also be launched within the next 30 days.  (We've been busy.)  It will introduce a completely new look and feel for the Institute and will have an easy-to-use navigation structure and clearly spell out how Integral Institute intends to lead the global emergence of integral in the nonprofit sector by being an active hub for new partnerships, programs, donors and scholarly endeavors throughout the integral community.  (Much of this is already underway and has only been discussed in a limited way here on my blog.)  Integral Institute will, along with Integral Life, practice a multiple-stakeholder model in service to the broader global integral ecosystem.  How we will do so will be themes of several Institute white papers anticipated to be published this year.

Anyway, finally some public-facing changes to match the very active private changes we've been implementing.  Stay tuned, and bring a big bag of forgiveness for anything that may be slightly tweaked those first weeks. Much love ...

Comments

[michael]

This is all well and good - and truthfully, the nerd in me IS a bit excited - but ever since I became active with II it seems to me that 'you guys' spend more time on re-inventing / updating the website than anything else.

This sounds a lot like the months and months of lofty promises by Ken leading up to the ii site launch.

I'm sure it's just, but I am also much more interested in the actual content and the theoretical and practical discussion about being and becoming integral.