On this site you will find guides to participation and partnerships, and also some early work on creating online communities ... but it is pretty old now. Try my blog Designing for Civil Society for the latest news and articles, and also Useful Games for workshop techniques. Creating partnerships Guide to Effective Participation Guide to Development Trusts and Partnerships Archive Introduction to online communities How you can use IT in the community Getting Connected - Internet basics and benefits Inventing the Future: Communities in the Information Society Early history of UK community networking Presentation on what communities need from ICTs Innovative IT for voluntary organisations - presentation A manifesto for local online communities - cyberplaces as if citizens mattered External link to an article on housing, social exclusion and ICTs and to 1994 Morino Institute paper on Understanding the Internet and Society
www.partnerships.org.uk Prepared by David Wilcox September 2004