Getting Connected
Introduction Tools Demonstration Benefits Barriers Going online Articles	Some of the links on this page may be broken, and links to external sites may not work because those sites no longer exist. However, you can view a working snapshot of the pages at the time they were created on archive.org. These pages were written in 1999 to give a first introduction to the Internet - the barriers and benefits, the tools and their application in organisations and neighbourhoods. There is more recent material on Making that Net Work and David Wilcox's blog Designing for Civil Society Archive material Jump to our demonstration pages ....or read your way in to: Internet tools including email, the Web, ftp etc The benefits of getting connected The barriers you may face The first steps in connecting your organisation or community Key functions in community networking Longer articles from 1997 and more recent material on Making the Net Work These pages were originally developed as part of a Getting Connected project with CDF and others. More here. This later became Making the Net Work. Many of the ideas here draw on the work of US community networker Terry Grunwald, who visited the UK in summer 1998 and is a partner in Making the Net Work. Original research by Peter Mason of Sussex Community Internet Project.   For more information contact David Wilcox <david@socialreporter.com> March 1 2000.