"Community Connector"

[Doug Schuler]

The Community Connector is an ambitious on-line effort to promote
the development and use of community networks worldwide.  It's
under the direction of Joan Durrance, a professor at the University
of Michigan who has been involved in helping to get information to
the underserved for over 20 years. (It's also a great example of
how a university can get involved in a positive way in community
affairs.)

-- Doug

> Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 16:46:29 -0500 (EST)
> From: "Charlotte L. Gerstein" <cgerstei at umich.edu>
> To: cn.contacts at umich.edu
> Subject: Invitation to share news about community info systems via theConnector website
> 
> Please forgive cross-posting.  If you are on this list (contacts of the
> CNI at the University of Michigan) in error, email si.cn at umich.edu to be
> taken off. 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> **The Community Connector Invites You to Communicate News, Resources and
> Ideas about Community Information Systems**
> 
> The Community Connector, the University of Michigan School of
> Information's resource website supporting community networking and
> community information systems, now allows web-based input to our site.  We
> welcome your submissions to these newly interactive features of our site:
> 
> *A Reading Room of substantial online material:
> http://archimedes.si.umich.edu/cfdocs/community/RRsearch.cfm
> 
> *News Briefs.  Sign up to receive our news briefs via email, read them
> here, or submit news items to share:
> http://archimedes.si.umich.edu/cfdocs/community/news.cfm
> 
> *Upcoming Conferences:
> http://archimedes.si.umich.edu/cfdocs/community/Conferences.cfm
> 
> *Links and annotations to examples of community information projects and
> resources for them:
> http://www.si.umich.edu/community/comminfo.html
> 
> *Technology Resources
> http://www.si.umich.edu/community/techno.html
> 
> The Connector also features an online journal, Connections, at
> http://www.si.umich.edu/Community/connections/
> We welcome your input for this resource as well. Email us at
> si.cn at umich.edu with ideas for articles or submissions.
> 
> The mission of the Community Connector is to add value to the online
> resources that are developing as community networks and other community
> information systems grow and organize.  By identifying, organizing, and
> critically assessing web resources, the team behind the Connector makes a
> searchable library of useful information available to community networking
> staff and supporters, and others working to improve the quality of life
> within geographic communities.   Now the site can become even more
> comprehensive by allowing user input.
> 
> The Community Connector is a component project of the Community Networking
> Initiative, sponsored by the School of Information and the W.K. Kellogg
> Foundation.  The site is maintained by a team of graduate student research
> assistants under the direction of Professor Joan C. Durrance. The team
> will review and edit submissions to the site as appropriate.
> 
> Share what you know and what you're working on, and visit often to learn
> more about what's happening in the world of community information systems!
> 
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Charlotte Gerstein
> Community Networking Initiative
> School of Information, University of Michigan
> si.cn at umich.edu
> http://www.si.umich.edu/community
> The CNI is a proud member of the Association for Community Networking
> http://www.afcn.net/
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 
> 
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