Community Connector: Community Networks and 
Community Information Systems

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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, allows web-based input to our site. We welcome your submissions to these interactive features of our site:

  • Community Information: Do you know good examples of community information projects and resources for them? Let others know!

  • Reading Room: Submit recent research, articles, and reports on community information systems.

  • News Briefs. Sign up to receive our news briefs via email, read them here, or submit news items to share

  • Funding Resources and Examples of Partnerships that can sustain community information systems.

  • Evaluation Techniques for websites.

  • Upcoming Conferences where people working with community information systems can meet one another.

  • Training Resources for people starting technology training programs in their communities.

  • Missions and Policies: Examples of well-written mission statements and policies of community information systems.

  • Technology Resources include documentation and websites about using various technologies.

  • Discussion Forums and Listservs where people can connect with others interested in community technology.

  • Connections, our online journal on current issues in community information systems. Email us at si.cn@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, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, and the Alliance for Community Technology. The site is maintained by a team of graduate student research assistants under the direction of Professors Joan C. Durrance and Paul Resnick. 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!


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