Community Network Applications Web Tour

A Web Tour of community education, health care,
Ebusiness and Electronic Democracy applications
            http://lone-eagles.com/aspen.htm

"How to Get and Use the Tools"     

Recommended Reading:

Community Networking primer
http://lone-eagles.com/articles/networking.htm
A good first article on the practical function and applications of community networks.

A Free Web Tools Web Tour
http://lone-eagles.com/currtour.htm
Free tools for collaboration, Ebusiness, and authoring instructional materials

Community Network Funding Sources and Grantwriting Tips
http://lone-eagles.com/granthelp.htm

The Good Neighbor's Guide to Community Networking
http://lone-eagles.com/cnguide.htm
Contains 11 Chapters on Ecommerce, youth-based community development, model sites and URLs,
plus a bibliography listing the best community networking guides and resources.

Building Learning Communities through
Community Technology Centers
http://lone-eagles.com/articles/build.htm
An introduction to the self-empowerment opportunities
the Internet offers anyone with Internet access.

The Ten Internet Collaborative Tools
http://lone-eagles.com/articles/tencollab.htm
Published in ISTE's Leading and Learning with Technology Magazine Dec/Jan 1999
http://www.iste.org

Lone Eagles Learn to "Teach From Any Beach "
http://lone-eagles.com/articles/eagle.htm
Learning to teach online; anyone, anywhere, anytime. Published Nov. 1999
http://www.thejournal.com

Culture Club: A Cultural and Community Survival Concept Paper
http://lone-eagles.com/articles/cultureclub.htm A Youth-Based Community and Cultural
Survival Strategy. For a one-day workshop version see http://lone-eagles.com/youth.htm

Center for Digital Storytelling
http://www.storycenter.org/storyplace.html  
Important models and resources for telling your community's story online. GREAT!

        Master Listing of Rural Empowerment Resources
          http://lone-eagles.com/ruralempowerment.htm

Additional Readings from Lone Eagle Consulting's
archive of Community Networking Articles and Templates
can be found at http://lone-eagles.com/articles/articles.htm

General Community Networking Resources

Community Networking Clearinghouse
http://lone-eagles.com/community.html  
Borrow the best ideas and resources from hundreds of other
community networks and related organizations. Build on the best!
EXTENSIVE RESOURCES!

University of Michigan Community Connector Resource
http://www.si.umich.edu/Community    
Excellent collected resources from the School of Information!

        Community Network Briefing Book from
        the Blacksburg Electronic Village
          http://www.bev.net/form/bev_book_request.html

Association for Community Networking
http://www.afcn.net
A new organization created by many of the original pioneers.

U.S. Dept. of Commerce Technology Opportunities Program (TOPS)
www.ntia.doc.gov/top  Hundreds of case studies on grantees over the past five years.

E-business Start-Up Training Resources Web Tour

               Information condenses to knowledge, which condenses to wisdom,
                          and value is created in an information economy.

Business@ Home
http://www.gohome.com
Making a life while making a living.

Home Office Association of America
http://www.hoaa.com
SoHo (Small Office/Home Office Resources;) Excellent! See their resource links!

Bigstep.com http://bigstep.com
Free services for creating your own E-business!

OLB.com http://olb.com
Another free service for creating your own E-business!

Ebay http://www.ebay.com
An auction site which has provided sustainable businesses for many home-based businesses in very rural locations.

Two Magazines on Ebusiness: Business 2.0 http://www.business2.com and
Fast Company http://www.fastcompany.com

Adult and Youth Entrepreneurship Training Resources
http://www.emkf.org/ 
The Kauffman Foundation has a billion dollar endowment for funding youth
and entrepreneurship programs. See also http://www.entreworld.org

Netpreneur.org
http://netpreneur.org
From Washington DC, the most electronically wired, educated, wealthy, and politically charged community in the world; here are sophisticated resources for learning how to grow an online business.

Telecommuting Jobs Listing and How-To-Telecommute Handbook
http://www.tjobs.com
Interesting focus for a home business; to teach others telecommuting skills.

Mining Company Telecommuting Resources
http://telecommuting.miningco.com

The above resources were taken from
Hotlist of Student Entrepreneurial Resources:
http://lone-eagles.com/entrelinks.htm
Wonderful listing of dozens of important resources for student entrepreneurship, home-based businesses, community service, and more!

Community Participatory Decision-Making,
  and Electronic Democracy:   http://lone-eagles.com/democracy.htm

Citizenship is the American Ideal. There may be an army of actualities
opposed to that ideal, but there is no ideal opposed to that ideal.     
                                                                        G.K. Chesterson

Liberty Net
http://www.iscv.org/
Institute for the Study of Civic Values--Help strengthen America's commitment
to our historic civic ideals. Many resources for citizens to build a true, informed,
proactive democracy!

Neighborhoods Online: National
http://neighborhoodsonline.net
A key component of LibertyNet; helping neighborhood activists and organizations gain information and resources of use in solving community problems; online resource center.

Netaction.org
http://www.netaction.org
A clearinghouse for cause-related web collaborative activities.
Select the Virtual Activist training course! http://www.netaction.org/training/

WebActive.com: Activist Group Directory
http://www.webactive.com
Here's a great searchable directory of "communities of interest;" citizens with a mission!

Votelink-the voice of the 'Net
http://votelink.com
Free on-line voting and discussions; See Teen Voting and discussions!

Civicnet: Civic Dialog and Citizen Participation Resources
http://civic.net/civic.html
Resources from The Center for Civic Networking and The Innovation Groups.

An Electronic Civil Liberties Library
http://www.eff.org/archives.html
From the Electronic Frontier Foundation: Select Netculture and Online community, and Cyberanthropology.

Minnesota E-Democracy Initiative
http://www.e-democracy.org 
An exceptionally vigorous state initiative. Good source of links to similarly minded folks.

Cyberfair Project from the Global Schoolhouse
http://www.gsh.org
An Intl. competition for K12 students to create local web community content.

More School and Community Collaborative Services http://lone-eagles.com/curric.htm
and http://lone-eagles.com/webdev.htm

Collaborative Learning Community,
and Mentoring Models and Resources

Web Authoring and Web Conferencing Resources
http://lone-eagles.com/webdev.htm
Select "Web Conferencing" and click on David Woolley's Web conferencing site!
Includes a guide to selecting web conferencing software. http://thinkofit.com/webconf/  

ForumOne.com
http://www.forumone.com 
A searchable directory of discussion forums on the web. Resources on community collaboration.

Lone Eagle's Listing of Mentoring Projects
http://lone-eagles.com/mentor.htm 

Health Care Links

    Important trends are online medical diagnosis assistance
    services and discount drug purchasing.

           Med-Line
            http://www.nlm.nih.gov
            From the National Library of Medicine comes a superb health resource!

            WebMD
            http://webMD.com
            Online medical consultation and much more;
             an important model for a whole new array of medical services

               Dr. Koop MegaMedical Resources
            www.drkoop.com
            This the type of megasite we can expect to see more of;
            pointers to hundreds of quality resources!

              Mayo Clinic Health Oasis
            http://www.mayohealth.org
            From the famous Mayo Clinic.

               CNN's Health Site
            http://cnn.com/HEALTH/
            Current topical health information and links to other resources

      More Health links at http://lone-eagles.com/webtours.htm        

Suicide Counseling:

Thirty thousand people commit suicide every year in the US.
It is the third greatest cause of death among young people.
Learn what you can do to give people the social and emotional
support they  obviously need.

          Survivors of Suicide
            www.main.org/sos/index.html
            For those who lost a loved one to suicide.

            American Foundation for Prevention of Suicide
             http://www.afsp.org

U.S. Dept. of Commerce Technology Opportunities Program (TOPS)
www.ntia.doc.gov/top  Hundreds of case studies on grantees over the past five years.

Thomas Jefferson Government Resources
http://thomas.loc.gov
Direct from the Library of Congress, here are extensive
resources on current congressional activity; Bills, congressional
records, advisory board reports, congressional Internet sites, and
even email addresses and mailing label files for serious community activists.

FedWorld
http://www.fedworld.gov
Providing a comprehensive central access point for locating and acquiring government information.

FirstGov
http://www.firstgov.gov
Your first click for government resources.

The White House
http://www.whitehouse.gov/
Take the White House Tour!!

Guide to online mentoring and federal computer recycling program
http://computers.fed.gov 

Educational Links

        Self-Directed Learning Resources:

        Cross-Cultural Self-Directed Learner's Internet Guide
           http://lone-eagles.com/guide.htm
           An instructional brokerage resource with emphasis on pointing to the best online tutorials,
           and educational resources, on the Internet for self-directed learning. This guide will soon
           be updated on contract with the AT&T Learning Network and the ERIC/CRESS
           Clearinghouse for widespread distribution..

           This guide is supported by free access to two college credit online classes:

           1. Making the Best Use of Internet Resources for K-12 Instruction
                  http://lone-eagles.com/asdn1.htm
                 A hands-on course on how to broker the best resources for your classroom.
                 Review the work of past students at http://lone-eagles.com/teachercreated.htm

           2. Designing K12 Internet Instruction
                  http://lone-eagles.com/currmain1.htm
                  A hands-on course on how to easily create Internet hotlists, web-tours,
                  lessonplans, project-based learning activities (Webquest, Cyberfair,
                  Thinkquest) and complete online courses using online web tools.

          Native American/Alaskan/Hawaiian K-12 Web Innovations
           http://lone-eagles.com/usaid.htm  A 1999 report for the U.S. Agency for Intl. Development

           Native Alaskan K-12 Innovations Web Tour
           http://lone-eagles.com/alaskan.htm
           Links to village web sites, web tutorials on building dog sleds,
           web-marketing of village crafts and collaborative projects

           Migrant Education 'Spanish Language' K-12 Web Resources
           http://lone-eagles.com/migrant.htm

           Lone Eagle's Listing of Mentoring Projects
           http://lone-eagles.com/mentor.htm 

          Master Listing of Native American Empowerment Resources
           http://lone-eagles.com/nativeresources.htm