E-commerce Start-Up Training Resources Web Tour
http://lone-eagles.com/pocatellotour.htm
Information condenses to knowledge, which condenses to wisdom,
and value is created in an information economy.
TIP: Create your own local Ecommerce and Entrepreneurship Hotlist by exploring
the "other links" listings from the following best sites.
Learning To Create A Business
free Ecommerce courses covering the basics for planning, marketing and more.
http://www.sba.gov/classroom
Women's Entrepreneurial Networks
Free or Low-cost Ecommerce Sites and Services
Youth Entrepreneurship
Career and Job Marketing Sites
Unique Ecommerce Services
Ebay
For more Entrepreneurship links see http://lone-eagles.com/entrelinks2.htm
Youth Building Communities!
- Morino Institute's YouthLearn
http://www.youthlearn.org is an online community for people
integrating technology into out-of-school learning environments.
Extensive collected resources!
- Youth Using Technology to Build Community and Bridge the Digital Divide!
http://www.communitynetworkers.org
Kids create web pages for non-profits. Many free web tools listed to help kids get started!
- Teens Teaching Internet Skills to Seniors
www.nnh.org/ttis.htm
We are re-inventing our classic 4-H Youth afterschool-weekend
club activity to be a community technology leadership program.
Only 12 percent of our members are farm kids. Guess where the others live.
In towns, cities and suburbs.
See also: Americans Communicating Electronically
www.ace.org National 4-H leader: Tom Tate
- Teen Resources
www.nicon.org/ctc
A Coeur d'Alene, Idaho Teen Resources Project
- Digital story telling
http://www.storycenter.org/
http://tech-head.com/dstory.htm
- Chamisa Mesa High School teaches digital storytelling.
www.chamisamesa.net/ www.chamisamesa.net/video.html
Also check out what our students are doing for the community and their
peers: www.taosteen.net See also http://taosmira.net
- This is a site that contains web sites that kids have created.
http://sln.fi.edu/tfi/hotlists/kids.html
- Believe it or not this site is by a 13 year old.
http://www.lissaexplains.com/
I started a basic web site and then learned what I needed to in order to
make my site more fun and attractive.
- This organization provides creative arts mentoring for at-risk kids.
www.createnow.org
- After School Programs: Federal Resources
http://afterschool.gov
- 21st century community learning centers
http://www.ed.gov/21stcclc/ Federal Resources
- SEE the New Cyberfair Competition for inspiration!
http://lightspan.com
International competition for kids to create community-oriented web pages
- Thinkquest
http://www.thinkquest.org
International competition for kids to create instructional web pages. Over 4,500 such sites!
Two Super Sites for Girls!
- http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Teachers/womengrrlstech.html
Long listings of resources, mentoring programs, projects, and links
for helping girls using science, math, technology, to cross that digital
divide.
- http://www.MentorGirls.org
Long listing for 'girls-only' resources and projects!
Senior Sites (Elders, not HS Seniors!)
- FirstGov for Seniors
http://www.seniors.gov/
Federal resources for seniors
- SeniorNet
http://www.seniornet.org/
SeniorNet is based on the concept that older people are not adverse
to using new technology, just unfamiliar with it.
See also www.thirdage.com, http://www.agelight.org/
- Senior Corps
http://seniorcorps.org
Featuring a RSVP volunteers program.
- American Association of Retired Persons
http://www.aarp.com/indexes/computers.html
Includes chat rooms and participants who
are very generous about helping "newbies."
- Senior Surfers
www.seniorsurfers.com
Our intention is to have between 2,500 & 3,000
SurferLabs available in communities within the next four years.
- Computers for Homebound and Isolated Persons(CHIPs)
http://www.korrnet.org/chips/
Regional Community Networks and Virtual Incubators:
Idaho Virtual Incubator http://www.idahovirtualincubator.org
Oregon Innovation http://www.oregoninnovation.org/
Central Oregon Regional Community Network http://centraloregon.org
Louisville virtual incubator http://trc.louisville.edu/__virtual_incubator_affiliates.html
Wisconsin virtual incubator http://virtualincubate.com
Missouri Association of Community Information Networks (37) http://www.macin.org/
North Central Kansas Regional Community Network) http://kansascommunities.com
Association for Community Networking http://www.afcn.net Strongly recommended!
Arizona CNs http://zeki.radiology.arizona.edu/ruralhealth/CmtyNets.htm
CN guides listed http://www.evanston.lib.il.us/community/technopolis/resources_guides.html
Free Web-based Collaborative Tools http://www.kmunity.net/Free_Tools_/free_tools_.html
A list of free/low-cost computer resources (both newand recycled) http://www.scn.org/teched/computers.htm
Federal Computer Recycling Program http://computers.fed.gov
Presentation Tools Demonstrated:
Art Tablet http://www.wacom.com
Art software "Painter 5" http://www.metacreations.com
Sony MVC CD-1000 digital camera http://www.sony.com
WebWhacker Offline Browser http://bluesquirrel.com
Macromedia Director http://macromedia.com
Real Media Player, Jukebox, radio stations and MP3 music http://real.comAlaskan Student Electronic Portfolios
http://www.mehs.educ.state.ak.us/portfolios/portfolio.html Must See!
A+ locator http://www.vrd.org/locator/alphalist.shtml
Topical mentors willing to respond to questions. Do this in your community!
Lone Eagle Consulting Resource Sampler
My best listing of rural community-building and cultural resources is at http://lone-eagles.com/teled.htm Included are two online courses, two versions of a self-directed Internet guide, a guide to rural community networking and three mini-courses for citizens. You're invited to download these guides, add local links from your community and sell copies as a fundraiser for multimedia equipment, computers for local community technology centers and hosting local Internet Awareness Events!
A new rural community resource: "Good Neighbor's Guide to Community Networking" is now available at http://lone-eagles.com/cnguide.htm Written in non-technical language specifically for rural citizens, many examples of replicable rural Ecommerce successes are included. Includes 11 chapters with a bibliography of the best community networking guides.
Grant-writing Resources and Project Ideas
The most recent grant template is "A Texan Community Bootstrap Academy" http://lone-eagles.com/alpine2.htm
I strongly recommend you review the Alaskan grant I wrote for youth in 8 villages submitted recently for the Ididerod Area District, as a model for youth leadership in rural communities. Hint: Use it to write your own grant! It is a WORD '97 file at http://lone-eagles.com/Bartsgrant.doc Grant-writing resources are included in a online lesson on writing grants at http://lone-eagles.com/asdnl8.htm Community Network Funding Sources specifically for rural community development and Grantwriting Tips http://lone-eagles.com/granthelp.htm A Simple Proposal-writing Tutorial from the Kellogg MIRA project http://lone-eagles.com/mira2.htm and http://lone-eagles.com/miramodel.htm
The Community Bootstrap Initiative "Doing for Ourselves- Together" http://lone-eagles.com/articles/boot2.htm A full USDA proposal for Dillon, Montana. This was formally submitted in 1998, but not funded.
Culture Club: A Youth-based Cultural and Community Survival Strategy http://lone-eagles.com/cultureclub.htm This has the core ideas for many youth oriented community development initiatives. Includes a Lone Eagles Apprenticeship Ecommerce program. For similar themes to seed your brainstorming - See also http://lone-eagles.com/capacity.htm and http://lone-eagles.com/trainers.htm and http://lone-eagles.com/initiatives.htm