Tourists increasingly use the WWW to prepare for visits. Bed and Breakfast web pages often quadruple bookings. Non-profit community organizations may not have money to pay for web pages, which creates an opportunity for local youth to volunteer to show off their skills, eventually resulting in employment. Posting collected educational and community training resources How we're each going to learn to be successful accessing information via Internet whenever we need it and other Internet skills can be addressed simply by gleening the best self-directed learning resources from the Internet and posting them locally. Getting people involved with helping each other, and themselves, will involved tapping into, and developing, local talent.
Most people secretly love to teach others, and feel useful.
Such sharing gives meaning to our existence, and creates community. The Internet's collaborative tools can be used to allow ongoing information sharing 24 hours a day, seven days a week with convenience and the social safety of home access. Minutes from town meetings, and the county commissioners meetings, can be posted for comment, allowing those with family obligations and tight work schedules a new opportunity to participate in local government. Also, since anyone can begin a discussion on any topic, whole new levels of shared community learning and interaction become possible. The potential richness that can come from ongoing online communications is the real sleeper application in community networking.