Various Internet Tools
Providing Appropriate Motivational Training and Tools
We’re at a point in human history where social engineering methodologies and global citizenship awareness-raising best practices are co-emerging simultaneously. New tools such as Blogs, Video Blogs (Vlogs), Really Simple Syndication (RSS), wikis, content management systems, and the use of distance learning free tools like www.moodle.org create the opportunity for anyone, anywhere to empower both themselves and countless others, worldwide.
Selecting the right tool and training for specific collaboration and knowledge management needs amid rapid evolution of online tools and their increasingly innovative applications can be challenging.
Community Toolboxes
http://lone-eagles.com/toolbox.htm
Techsoup, everything you need to know about Web 2.0 http://www.techsoup.org/toolkits/web2/
What Is Web 2.0: Design Patterns and Business
Models for the Next Generation of Software, by Tim O'Reilly.
http://www.oreillynet.com/lpt/a/6228
Mapping tools
Google Earth GIS Mapping Tools
http://earth.google.com
Take the Google Earth Tour
http://earth.google.com/tour/
Google Maps
http://maps.google.com/
Ben Sheldon, LTC's VISTA and "Online Community Developer," has been busy working to build a web site to plot every community media center in the country on a web-based map called Mapping Access, http://mappingaccess.com/, that currently contains data for over 900 PEG access television stations in preparation for the open beta testing of the DigitalBicycle http://www.digitalbicycle.org