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Welcome to NETWEAVER
The interactive, intersystem
newsletter of the
Electronic Networking Association
"Our purpose is to promote electronic networking in ways that
enrich individuals, enhance organizations, and build global
communities."
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Volume 4, Number 1 January 1988
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Volume 4, Number 1 ---CONTENTS--- January 1988
1 Masthead and Index
2 ENA UPDATE ................................ by Lisa Carlson
(3051 char)
Welcome to volume 4 of NETWEAVER! A sample of
current interest areas within the Electronic
Networking Association.
3 PUBLIC POLICY AND A LOOK AT THE FUTURE
(THE ACCESS ISSUE PART I) .................................
by Mary Gardiner Jones and Nancy Chasen
(6650 char)
What nonprofit organizations should know about how
telecommunications issues affect them and their
constituents.
4 PUBLIC SAFETY AND A LOOK AT THE FUTURE
(THE ACCESS ISSUE PART II) ...............................
by Mary Gardiner Jones and Nancy Chasen
(3493 char)
The Consumer Interest Research Institute's assessment
of the issue of access to information and information
technology.
5 NETWORKING EXECUTIVE EDUCATION ........... by Lisa Carlson
(8850 char)
How the Western Behavioral Sciences Institute provides
high quality executive development online in its
School for Strategic and Management Studies.
6 THE POTENTIAL OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS FOR NONPROFIT
ORGANIZATIONS (PART I) ...................................
by Mary Gardiner Jones and Nancy Chasen
(4518 char)
The current state of nonprofit use of
telecommunications and how use of the technology is
growing.
7 THE POTENTIAL OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS FOR NONPROFIT
ORGANIZATIONS (PART II) ..................................
by Mary Gardiner Jones and Nancy Chasen
(7978 char)
How to assess your organization's telecommunications
needs and some resources with experience working with
nonprofit organizations.
9 CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT
Information about ENA's f-t-f conference: BEYOND
ELECTRONIC MAIL- People and Organizations at Work in a
Global Economy to be held in Philadelphia, May 12-15,
1988.
10 MEMBERSHIP FORM
A downloadable application for membership in ENA
ENA NETWEAVER Volume 4, Number 1, Article 2 (January 1988)
ENA UPDATE
by Lisa Carlson
Welcome to Volume 4 of NETWEAVER!
It's exciting to realize that the Electronic Networking
Association (ENA) and NETWEAVER have been around that long.
Our first issue of NETWEAVER was published in August, 1985 and
we've been publishing monthly ever since.
NETWEAVER now appears on dozens of systems around the world.
Back issues of NETWEAVER form a rich archive of material about
the management, applications, and development of electronic
networking. One of our goals for 1988 is to find more ways to
make this valuable resource available more widely through the
use of additional media and channels of distribution.
As we make plans for our next ENA f-t-f conference in May (see
Conference Bulletin in this issue), it's clear that the
interests and projects of ENA members have expanded and evolved
over the past three years. In addition to our continued
interest in the medium of computer conferencing and
electronic networking, ENA has begun to reflect strong
interest in the relationship of networks to other media and to
its applications in a broad range of endeavors e.g.
applications such as computer-supported cooperative work,
electronic journalism, distance education, and
electronic democracy which integrate asynchronous
networks with interactive video, graphics, hypertext, desktop
publishing, and CD-ROM.
ENA also continues to focus on social and policy issues such as
broad access to media and the regulatory environment of the
information business. In this issue of NETWEAVER, we're glad
to present a series of articles on the use of
telecommunications by nonprofit organizations and the issues it
raises both for the organizations and their constituents.
You'll also find an article about one of the leaders in the
application of networking to executive education.
Enjoy! We're looking forward to including articles from more
authors and about new applications in Volume 4!
ENA NETWEAVER Volume 4, Number 1, Article 3 (January 1988)
Public Policy and a Look at the Future
The Access Issue Part I
by Mary Gardiner Jones and Nancy Chasen
As the technologies of telecommunications bound forward,
complex and important public policy issues are sure to emerge.
The federal government is in the midst of a serious debate as
to whether, and if so, how to assemble and disseminate
electronically its vast storehouse of data. The telephone
companies are on the verge of entering the information world.
Increasing numbers of companies are involved in exploring the
potentials of videotex and data base development. It is our job
as citizens and citizen leaders to see that these policy issues
are resolved appropriately.
It is universally agreed that information is the key to
effective political, economic and social participation in
society. As electronic communications increasingly replace
their more traditional print predecessors, the gap between the
technologically literate and illiterate can have serious
overtones on the ability of citizens not only to cope with the
daily demands of every day living but to participate generally
in the social, economic, and political life in society. If
citizens are not to sink into an information poverty with
almost as drastic results to their humanity as the more
familiar economic poverty, then the information and
telecommunications technologies must be harnessed to their use
with even greater urgency than the need to harness them for
business use.
As more information services are delivered electronically,
traditional face to face and print vehicles for dissemination
will become less available and more costly - again,
exacerbating the gap between the ordinary citizen and business
and between the haves and the have-nots in society. If only
the most sophisticated and affluent citizens have access to
these technologies, or if data bases are only developed for
those most able to pay for them, then the wealth of the
telecommunications services which can be made available through
these technologies will only serve to widen - rather than eliminate
- the information and power gaps which exist already too
broadly throughout our society.
The goal must be some form of universal access. The challenge
is to design imaginative citizen political, economical, and
social information programs and networks of publicly located
terminals in libraries, shopping malls, bus terminals, citizens
centers, post offices, social security and employment offices,
hospital waiting rooms and the like to ensure effective citizen
access.
Physical access to information systems will be meaningless and
a waste of resources unless these information systems are
affordable. Thus telephone rates and usage charges will
directly affect which members of the public can afford to
access these systems and must be of concern to policy makers.
Of equal importance to citizen access is the diversity of
information and telecommunications services which are available
to the public and which respond to the breadth of interests and
real needs of consumers. This raises a different type of
access issue. Access by information providers to the major
information systems becomes of critical importance.
Information providers can range from governmental or private
social service agencies and citizens or public interest
nonprofit organizations to newspapers, travel agencies,
advertisers, or other commercial entities who wish to develop,
sell or disseminate information to the public. There must be
some system to ensure that all information providers will have
access to the principle electronic networks with the broadest
reach to all segments of the public.
At present, most of the existing information systems claim the
right to determine for themselves what information they will
carry and with which information or service providers they will
deal. Already issues of access have arisen in the United
States as to the rights of competitors not to be excluded from
a local cable system offering transactional services to the
public. The entry of the Bell telephone companies into the
information business is being hotly debated in terms of the
potential additional competition which they might interject
into the market and fears about the anticompetitive potential
they might present to the market by reason of their dual role
as network transmission owners and providers of information
services. Public interest and other non-commercial
organizations with data bases on automobiles, travel frauds,
nursing home safety records or product ingredients will have a
similar interest in accessing information systems offering data
on related commercial information or transactional services.
Political candidates, issue oriented organizations and
legislators and government policy offices must also have
effective electronic access to the citizens in their
communities.
In Europe, most of the information systems, whether private or
public, are run essentially on a public utility concept
analogous to our telephone and telegraph systems open to all
who wish to use these services as users or information
providers. In the United States, the ongoing information
networks are operated either by the media (cable, newspaper and
other publishers) or other private industry entity. Where the
media are the system providers, the selection of the
information to be made available can be expected to follow the
traditional media concepts based on their established right of
program and content determination limited only by their legal
and political accountability to the public for the way in which
they discharge their role. It is unlikely that these media
would be receptive to any concept of a right of access to their
information systems by independent information providers.
[continued]
ENA NETWEAVER Volume 4, Number 1, Article 4 (January 1988)
Public Policy and a Look at the Future
The Access Issue Part II
by Mary Gardiner Jones and Nancy Chasen
The information systems developed by traditional commercial
entities have no tradition of public service. The
responsiveness of their information offerings to individual
needs depends essentially on the size of the demand, the
ability of the consumer to pay and the respective profitability
involved in offering one data base or service over another.
The dynamics of media public service responsibility and of
profitability may not be sufficient to ensure that the full
potentials of the information society are in fact effectively
available to all citizens for their full range of potential
applications. Tele-medicine and tele-education, to mention
only two possible applications of the new technologies, have
never traditionally been fields which society has been willing
to leave entirely to the private sector. Community and social
services have typically been the responsibility of the public
and nonprofit sectors available to the public without regard to
their ability to pay. Marketplace information and documentation
about most public policy issues, such as nuclear energy,
environmental costs and benefits, carcinogen and other health
hazards in foods, etc. have fallen into a kind of netherland
with neither government nor the private sector meeting the full
needs of citizens.
There is little reason to believe that this situation will
change if the information providers and system operators under
the new technologies continue to operate under the traditions
of the media or the private sector's profitability
requirements. Moreover, the current trends towards
commercializing information will restrict even more the access
to information to those able to pay.
If, moreover, a pure market place model is adopted exclusively
for the development of the new information technologies and
information is treated purely as a commodity and less and less
as public good, then public institutions which have been
traditionally the dispensers of information to the public, such
as governmental agencies, libraries, schools and the like may
find it difficult to resist the claims of unfair competition
from the private sector anxious to disseminate the same
information. Under such circumstances, the general public may
find itself with less access to information and its
distribution throughout society may become less equitable
rather than more.
We have to find a way whereby access to telecommunication
networks and services cannot be denied to either providers of
these services or to citizens desiring to use them.
Some of the access questions which need to be addressed,
therefore, must include:
* Are the present public access practices of information
providers and cable companies, together with the
proliferation of different types of computer, telephone and
cable-based information systems and information providers
sufficient to ensure adequate diversity and effective
access to meet consumer needs;
* To what extent should society follow the educational public
school model or the commercial free market model or some mix
of the two in responding to the public interest in ensuring
the broadest possible access to information and
telecommunications systems;
* How can we ensure that data base and telecommunications
services are developed and disseminated so as to meet the
needs of all citizens and not simply the needs of the
commercial sector in our society;
* Is there a need for direct government activity as funder or
operator of some aspects of these systems, or for indirect
government subsidies or other form of incentive such as the
establishment of mixed public/private partnerships or other
techniques to supplement the activities of the private
sector:
- in the development and dissemination of hardware;
- the transmission of telecommunications services;
- the design of innovative search techniques.
* Should content and transmission of the private sector's
telecommunication services be separated or should the
private sector configuration of these services be
supplemented by a governmental or non-commercial network
available to all comers?
Clearly some government role in ensuring access to these
information technologies by both consumer and information
providers will be essential. Nonprofit organizations have
important stakes, both for themselves as potential information
providers and users and for their constituents, to participate
actively in efforts to resolve these issues of access so that
the legitimate rights and needs of all citizens, individual and
corporate, as both information users and providers are
responded to.
Author's note: This material is excerpted from a booklet, "The
Potential of Telecommunications for Non Profit Organizations,"
published by the Consumer Interest Research Institute, 1631
Suter's Lane N.W., Washington, D.C. 20007 (202) 333-6035.
ENA NETWEAVER Volume 4, Number 1, Article 5 (January 1988)
Networking Executive Education
by Lisa Carlson
The chairman of Electro Scientific Industries in Oregon, a
manager from Digital Equipment Corporation in Great Britain,
and a General in the U.S. Army in Georgia are exchanging
anecdotes about organizational culture with the instructor - a
consultant from Britain - while 60 other students from Europe,
Washington D.C., and New York look on.
It is rare that such high-level executives from the public and
private sector have the opportunity to participate in joint
training activities, since few can afford to leave their
offices for the length of time needed for in-depth programs
like this. But it is happening every day thanks to advances in
communication technology.
These executives are part of the Western Behavioral Sciences
Institute's (WBSI) innovative School for Strategic and
Management Studies (SMSS), which combines executive seminars
with a computer teleconferencing system to deliver a
comprehensive two-year certificated training program. After a
week-long orientation in La Jolla, California, students in the
SMSS program access course material and exchange messages via
the electronic information exchange system (EIES) run by the New
Jersey Institute of Technology.
EIES provides facilities for electronic mail and data base
management, as well as the asynchronous computer
teleconferencing system used to allow students in the program
to read and respond to material presented to the group.
"The SMSS experience is unique in many ways, but I think the
most important is that you have, participating in it, people
who could not otherwise afford the time or reprioritization of
other responsibilities to allow us to get together," said Rusty
Schweikart, former astronaut and National Science Foundation
executive. "Yet here we are, wrapped into intense, provocative
and thoughtful debate and dialogue on critical issues," he
said. "We are able to form these intellectual and personal
relationships only because the coming together takes place in
electronic space and is therefore accessible whenever we have
10 minutes, wherever we are. It's one of the most clear
examples I've seen of a new technology enhancing personal
growth."
Course participants can sign on any time they choose and read
material waiting for them in the series of conferences that
make up the course. They can leave comments in the conferences
for other students to read, or exchange private messages with
classmates and the professors. Most students use
microcomputers supplied by WBSI, which they can choose to have
at their offices or homes. The system can be accessed by any
micro, computer terminal or communicating word processor
equipped with a modem.
The program is divided into four six-month courses that focus
on broad issues affecting managers such as how changes in
technology will influence organizations and the relationship of
private sector initiatives to public policy. New participants
join the program every six months by participating in the
orientation seminar to meet the professors who will be leading
courses for the next term, and get technical training in the
use of the computer equipment and the teleconferencing system.
New sessions begin each January and July.
Faculty for the program is drawn from the staff and fellows of
WBSI and includes not only academic leaders, but people with
significant experience in business and government. Because
the program is essentially nongeographic, it is possible to
have a very diverse faculty. Recent faculty members have
included Harlan Cleveland, Robert Reich, Charles
Hampton-Turner, Nick Johnson, and Stewart Brand.
One of the most interesting aspects of the SMSS program is the
approach to teaching executives how to use the technology. In
addition to the content courses, students can access tutorials
on how to use various kinds of computers and software. Since
the students are hooked up via the telecommunications system,
help is always available from the course instructors and fellow
students, providing on-the-job support often missing in other
executive training in technology.
"My life and career have been totally changed by the
experience," said William Henry who began the program while
serving as chairman of the Washington State Board of Prison
Terms and Paroles and is now working on problems of
technology/human interface. "I have become more effective as a
manager and have introduced modern information processes in my
organization that have dramatically increased efficiency and
employee morale. I have a terminal on my desk now too."
Participants find that learning about the possibilities of
computer teleconferencing is valuable beyond their ability to
participate in this program. Many choose to continue using the
system for managing their own organizations after graduating
from the program, and there is much discussion about other
applications among alumni.
"I can see much potential for computer conferencing in any
organization," said a government executive participant. "But
especially those spread about the country - or world, for that
matter. I think the medium has great potential in the public
sector to make widespread citizen participation practical in
the near term. It would not surprise me to see every public
library equipped with terminals so that the ordinary guy or gal
could speak out on the issues of interest to them, comment on
proposed regulations, and talk to their elected official."
The next term begins this month. For more information contact
WBSI at 1150 Silverado Street, P.O. Box 2029, La Jolla, CA
92038. Phone (619) 459-3811.
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Author's note: Lisa Carlson graduated from the School for
Strategic and Management Studies in January '86, participates
as an alumnae fellow, and now serves on WBSI's Advisory Board.
ENA NETWEAVER Volume 4, Number 1, Article 6 (January 1988)
The Potential of Telecommunications
for Non Profit Organizations Part I
by Mary Gardiner Jones and Nancy Chasen
Over the past decade, public interest and non profit
organizations have watched while business organizations and
others with more substantial resources have computerized their
operations and used the new telecommunications technologies to
expedite their work and enhance their communications and non
profit capabilities.
The time has come for non profit organizations to explore these
possibilities their own operations. Computers are no longer
strangers to non profit organizations. A recent survey by the
Consumer Interest Research Institute (CIRI) found that many non
profit organizations have computers. They are used principally
for information processing - word processing, organizing
membership lists and cataloging potential funding sources.
Most groups have touch tone telephone service, the other
essential element for telecommunicating. Some organizations
have already begun to use their computers for information
exchange and retrieval. Be adding a modem and communications
software to their personal computers, these organizations can
connect their computers to data bases and to electronic mail
services, electronic bulletin boards and electronic
conferencing and publishing facilities. Cable and telephone
technologies may offer them similar opportunities.
There may not be many non profit organizations today which have
the equipment or the need to perform all of the electronic
telecommunications services. Yet any organization with a small
microcomputer or communicating word processor can acquire some
communications capabilities for a reasonable price. In many
cases, national offices have adequate equipment but few of
their members, directors, branches or fellow organizations with
whom they would want to communicate electronically have
corresponding equipment. Yet some of the telecommunications
services can benefit an organizations headquarters even if it
is the only one with the equipment and the capability.
It seems assured that as home computers proliferate, ordinary
lay people will be able to take more and more advantage of the
new technologies. The costs are steadily declining and
interest and familiarity with computers is just as steadily
increasing. Already, these services are becoming available to
individual members of the public either through libraries,
government agency public offices or neighborhood shopping
centers or through the use of cable videotex and telephone
technologies. Non profit organizations should be able to
anticipate using these telecommunicating services in the not
too distant future to facilitate communications with their
individual constituents or clients.
Electronic Conferencing
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Case: Public interest groups want to put together a coalition
of a broad spectrum of organizations in order to support or
oppose a proposed law or regulation. The coalition will try to
adopt a unified policy statement or strategy. The task
requires in-depth discussion over a period of time with
organizations and individuals in different parts of the
country. Scheduling a convenient time or times to meet is
difficult and travel is expensive and time consuming.
Case: You want to prepare a background paper on the
implications of recent changes in consumer access to credit.
You are anxious to review comments on the data and policy
implications from the public interest community, the business
community and academia. The broadest possible interchange of
opinion is important. You need a way to "meet" with minimum
time and expense involved.
Case: A consumer leader has made a particularly provocative
speech and you are interested in the reactions of other
consumer groups. The subject is one that bears discussion over
some period of time and in some depth.
Electronic conferencing represents a new form of highly
interactive communications for widely dispersed groups. It
differs from electronic mail which is one-way communication
directed to particular known addressees. Bulletin boards are
not really suitable for in-depth exchange of ideas. Moreover,
posted messages and responses appear randomly and are not
always associated together as is the case with conferencing.
Information retrieval and electronic publishing are more
typically one-way communications with limited interactivity and
essentially controlled by the publisher/data base owner.
The high interactivity of electronic conferencing means that
all the participants of the conference can not only communicate
back and forth with the conference sponsor. Of greater
importance, they can also communicate with each other. Thus
electronic conferencing to some is the only - and most
important - truly interactive telecommunications service. It
has the potential of making national headquarters and chapters
more equal since all can have access to the same data base. A
spokes-of-the-wheel organization, with national headquarters
typically controlling access to information, is replaced by a
more truly circular organizational structure with chapters
talking to each other as much as with national. Thus an
organization desiring to forgo some hierarchical control over
chapters may experience in return enhanced initiative and
imaginative ideas from its members. Electronic conferencing
may also be a valuable tool for organizations wishing to
communicate with their peers with no single organization or
individual on the network in a hierarchical "top" role.
Electronic conferencing is a many to many form of
communication. It is best suited for the kind of in-depth
discussions and debates that are difficult to undertake by
telephone or through the mail. Electronic conferences can be
used to share ideas, to discuss priorities, to plan conferences
or other events, to share research, to coordinate and manage
projects and generally to explore mutual interests with board
members, chapter directors or other people who are widely
dispersed geographically. This forum allows organizations to
tap ideas of many diverse groups in discussions that can
continue for days, weeks or months facilitating the exchange of
imaginative ideas, thoughtful research and discussion or novel
strategizing.
Conferencing goes a long way toward solving the problem of how
people of similar interest, separated by great distances and
perhaps unknown to one another, can meet and discuss their
mutual interests. Conferencing lets you get together with
people who choose to enter a particular conference because they
are interested in the subject matter. It gives you the
opportunity to ask a diverse group of people, either known or
unknown, the same question, and then be able to discuss the
various reactions of the conferees. Time zones, phone
schedules and physical distance are not considerations. People
can sign in and out of the discussion at their convenience and
without disturbing any of the other participants.
[continued]
ENA NETWEAVER Volume 4, Number 1, Article 7 (January 1988)
The Potential of Telecommunications
for Non Profit Organizations Part II
by Mary Gardiner Jones and Nancy Chasen
What Are Your Organization's Telecommunications Needs?
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In order for non profits to know whether they can benefit from
these new telecommunications opportunities, answering the
following questions may help you to focus on what your needs
really are:
1. Do you want to exchange information, texts, or other
materials with other organizations or individuals?
2. Do you want to access issue oriented and other information in
existing data bases that would facilitate your
organization's participation in policy debates?
3. Do you want to ask questions of the public with the hope of
a broad response?
4. Do you have events or issues or products (pamphlets, tapes,
newsletters, etc.) for which you want to create publicity?
5. Would it be valuable for you to exchange information,
opinions, and ideas quickly with your members, field organizers
or other defined groups of people on a given topic?
6. Do you want to have a dialogue or continuing discussion on a
given topic with your members, field staff or other group or
promote such a dialogue?
7. Do you want to develop new revenue sources for your existing
information products and services?
Getting Started
===============
Any organization interested in creating some type of
telecommunications capability for itself should first develop a
very careful list of applications for which it believes these
services would be helpful to it in its work. Once it has
worked out such a list, it should explore the possibility of
obtaining corporate or private foundation support. The beauty
of these telecommunications services is that their costs are
separable (e.g. equipment and software, data base construction
or network creation). Thus a start can be made with a
relatively modest investment which can be expanded as
experience is gained and benefits can be demonstrated.
Moreover, use of some of these services can be revenue
producing. This makes funding requests in this area especially
attractive to foundations and should facilitate an
organization's ability to find outside funding sources. A
local community trust foundation, for example, might be
intrusted in making a modest grant to a non profit organization
in its community to enable them to explore, perhaps on a pilot
basis, the value of some aspect of these services in their
work. There are many foundations interested in the application
of telecommunications to improve the effectiveness with which
non profits can deliver their services.
Once potential funding sources have been identified, it should
not be too difficult to find out whether the particular
foundation would be interested in funding the cost of the
equipment or the actual creation of a data base or the setting
up and operation of a pilot feasibility study to evaluate which
of the telecommunications services would be most useful to the
organization and what level of usage they could
expect.
In short, once an organization determines how these services
could meet their needs, the means to achieve their goals may
not be wholly outside their reach.
Telecommunications Resources with Nonprofit Experience
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Apple Bytes Alternative Media Center
New York University
725 Broadway
New York, NY 10003
Ms. Catherine Dunford
The Community Memory Project
2617 San Pablo Ave
Berkeley, CA 94702
(415) 841-1114
Mr. Christopher Fisher
Bulletin Board Directory of North America
PO Box 4150
Vero Beach, FL 32964
Metasystems Design Group, Inc.
2000 North 15th Street, Suite 103
Arlington, VA 22201
(703) 243-6622
New Era Technologies, Inc.
1252 Columbia Rd. N.W.
Washington, DC 20009
PeaceNet Project of the Disarmament Resource
Center in San Francisco
3228 Sacramento Street
San Francisco, CA 94115
Sam Simon
IBI Bulletin Board on Telecommunications Policy
1660 L. Street N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20005
(703) 734-1796 (BB)
Telecommunications Cooperative Network
370 Lexington Ave.
New York, NY 10017
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Author's note: This material is excerpted from a booklet, "The
Potential of Telecommunications for Non Profit Organizations,"
published by the Consumer Interest Research Institute, 1631
Suter's Lane N.W., Washington, D.C. 20007 (202) 333-6035.
ENA NETWEAVER Volume 4, Number 1, Article 8 (January 1988)
BEYOND ELECTRONIC MAIL
People and Organizations at Work in a Global Economy
May 12-15, 1988
Philadelphia, PA, USA
ENA's next f-t-f conference is going to be very exciting! It
will cover the full range of issue and opportunities related to
electronic networking. Topics featured at this conference will
include:
* computer-supported cooperative work
* international access issues
* economics of interactive communications
* applications for productivity improvement, planning, and
management
* electronic journalism
* distance education
* integration of electronic networking with related technologies
e.g. interactive video, graphics, hypertext, desktop
publishing, and CD-ROM
* technological literacy
* electronic democracy
* managing and facilitating electronic networks
* alternative systems for information delivery and access
* networking for special populations
* network products and markets
* social, political and ethical implications of new technology
* the current and future state-of-the art of the technology
* and more!
This will be an *interactive* as well as informative
conference. In addition to panels and featured speakers, we
will have working sessions, roundtables, hands-on
demonstrations, and workshops.
We will also USE THE TECHNOLOGY ourselves before, during, and
after the f-t-f conference to extend its value to participants.
For registration information contact:
Nan Hanahue
ENA Conference Planning Team
Executive Technology Associates, Inc.
2744 Washington Street
Allentown, PA 18104
(215) 821-7777
To join the conference planning team contact:
Stan Pokras (215) 922-0227 - Philadelphia Team Coordinator
Lisa Carlson (703) 243-6622 - Program Coordinator
ENA NETWEAVER Volume 4, Number 1, Article 9 (January 1988)
MEMBERSHIP FORM
On April 14, 1985, at the closing of
The First Intersystem Electronic Networking Symposium,
a new organization came into being:
the Electronic Networking Association.
The purpose of this association is
to promote electronic networking in ways that
ENRICH individuals
ENHANCE organizations
and BUILD global communities.
You are invited to become a member.
Please complete (download) the form below and _mail_ to:
Ed Yarrish, Treasurer
Electronic Networking Association
c/o Executive Technology Associates, Inc.
2744 Washington Street
Allentown, PA 18104
Enclose a check or money order made payable to the Electronic
Networking Association.
Be sure to include your network affiliations and online
addresses so that you can be informed of the location of
NETWEAVER and ENA activities on _your_ system.
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ENA Membership Form
NAME: _________________________________________________
ORGANIZATION: _________________________________________________
ADDRESS: _________________________________________________
_________________________________________________
NETWORKS _________________________________________________
AND
BULLETIN _________________________________________________
BOARDS
(INCLUDE _________________________________________________
IDS, IF
NECESSARY) _________________________________________________
Amount Enclosed: _____________ ($50 - Professional membership
$20 - General membership)
Is this a new membership? _________
Net or BBS where you received this form: _____________________
Welcome!
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Patt Haring {sun!hoptoad,cmcl2!phri}!dasys1!patth
Big Electric Cat Public Access Unix (212) 879-9031 - System Operator
Three aspects of wisdom: intelligence, justice & kindness.