One of the online activities that many of the women participated in was the e-mail list. Montgomery also highlights a specific type of online community called the digital diaspora which is an online group specifically organized around ethnicity or homeland. RuralWomyn.net is an online community created to bridge the gap between womyn in rural areas. This website is the place for rural women from across the US and Canada to share their thoughts and experiences with other women who also live in rural areas . Ruralwomyn.net serves as a virtual kitchen table for cyber friends to gather around and share their experiences with each other.
Members can also put their own virtual photo album online.
We are wild and wooly ruralfems who have claimed some space online. We get together around the virtual kitchen table to share some home made porridge and freshly baked bread. We sit in each others' virtual window seats and look out at fields, forests, streams, hills, plains and beaches. We visit each other's virtual libraries, assist with calvings in the virtual barn, plan the new virtual chicken coop, ride the virtual cattle roundup, collaborate on poetry, stories, songs and jokes. Now women who would normally be isolated because of their rural location can communicate with each other and create bonds that weren t possible before the creation of electronic communities such as this one.