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Northern Community Internet

www.NorthernCommunityInternet.org

Local News and BlogsPeople register their blog and “share” an audience with others in their community. The community site displays an excerpt from each story with a link to the the blog or news source. The two most popular recent stories appear at the top of the front page.

Itasca Orchestra Web Site/ BlogThe site links people to the originating web site. In this case it has an embedded YouTube video of one of the Itasca Orchestra & Strings Program students.

Second Harvest NewsThe local food bank Executive Director has a blog but has things to post only once or twice a week. Often that is not enough to sustain regular visitors. The community site provides her an audience when she does post.

Community CalendarPeople share their events with the community in several different ways. They add their own Google Calendar to the community calendar, submit an individual event or provide a link to another web calendar they maintain.

City of Grand Rapids CalendarThe site provides access to other non-Google calendars maintained by institutions in the community. This is the City of Grand Rapids Meeting and Events Calendar.

Shared Community SearchPeople add local web sites to this list and their contents are included in results from the community Google search. People can also browse through this list to find a web site for a local business or organization.

Results from Local CommunitiesThe Google search returns only results from web sites that are included in the list. The result page also allows people to expand their search to include sites in other communities.

E-DemocracyPage includes topics and most recent posts from the e-Democracy Forums in Bemidji, Grand Rapids and Cass Lake/Leech Lake with links to the E-Democracy site. There is easy access to register or find forum information.

Links to E-Democracy SiteWhen someone clicks on a link to a discussion on the community site it takes them to the e-Democracy site. Most forum members post and receive posts via email. The community site provides a way for others to read the discussion and join the forum if they want to participate.

Regional VersionsIn addition to the local web sites for 18 communities, there is a regional site that allows people to access information from all the local community sites.

Bemidji

Grand Rapids

Hibbing

Brainerd

Service AreaLake and Forest BioRegion

Northern Community Internet

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