Many editors dream of building a community.
Glenn Ritt is trying to live it, bringing his newspaper and new-media savvy to old Cape Cod. The Community Connections online manual shows how to build a site outline and diagram, customize the look, and add text, images, and links. CNC provides free training sessions at its Needham, Mass., headquarters. The Town Online Web sites are editorially independent from the newspaper. But Ritt has said such detailed cataloging of small community-interest groups can be helpful in providing leads, contacts, and information to reporters on various beats.