ExecutiveLink(TM) is a learning community of farm businesses engaged in nonformal education. Social capital is developed through shared language and experiences, the building of trust, self-development, and identification with the community. (SK)

Two surveys of new micro-businesses in Devon and Cornwall (n=361) and interviews with owners and trainers showed that support at and after start-up was not adequate. A potential cause is that the Business Link network, intended to help small growing companies, is not sufficiently flexible or pragmatic to meet their needs. (SK)

Examined the network density, size, and organizational memberships of identified community leaders and other residents in two rural Missouri communities. Leaders had larger, more dense, and diffuse networks and more organizational memberships than others. (Author)

Illustrates how job coaching networks can be implemented using adult education principles, with dialog and conversation as the foundation. Network success depends on in-house expertise, program ownership, and enough structure to maintain program integrity while allowing creativity. (SK)

For 288 public sector employees in Britain, advancement prospects were positively related to three career-enhancing strategies: expertise development, self-nomination, and networking. Motivation was positively related to expertise development and self-nomination. Work orientation was positively related to expertise development and networking. (SK)

The Seniors Computer Information Program website (www.seniorscan.ca) offers information and communication options for older adults. It was developed and tested in centers providing computer training to seniors. New projects include online training and a consortium of educational programs for older adults. (SK)

Presents selected issues related to the development of universal service to networked information resources and services in a global networked environment. Defines universal service as a set of telecommunications services to which users should have access, including appropriate funding and interconnected public telecommunications infrastructure…

A new study identifies and ranks the 10 security gaps responsible for most outsider attacks on college computer networks. The list is intended to help campus system administrators establish priorities as they work to increase security. One network security expert urges that institutions utilize multiple security layers. (DB)

Provides an overview of school networking options and explores what speedier broadband technologies mean for education. Topics include Ethernet; wireless options for connection to the Internet; local area networks; wide area networks; phone lines; satellite access; cable modems; digital subscriber line (DSL); and funding networks through the…

Describes the development of the National Archive of Lifelong Learning in Britain, an attempt to create an online catalog for a national network of collections on lifelong learning and adult education. (SK)

Indigenous social networks of Ethiopian farmers participate in seed exchange based on mutual interdependence and trust. A government-imposed extension program must validate the role of local seed systems in developing a national seed industry. (SK)

Introduces articles in this journal volume on bilingual borrowing. Each paper carries out two methodological imperatives: (1) All are focused on well-defined speech communities using a standard social network; (2) most authors were members of the communities and data was collected from interactions with their own close contacts. (Author/VWL)

Discusses the use of computer networking such as the Internet for the creation and dissemination of copyright works. Topics include the need for data structures for organizing and identifying units of digital information; and the copyright status of original works of authorship structured as digital objects. (LRW)

A connectionist feedforward network implementing a mapping from orthography to phonology is described. This model develops a view of the reading system that accounts for irregular word and pseudoword reading without relying on any system of implicit or explicit conversion rules. The model accounts for skilled reading performance and the patterns…

College students (215 female, 212 male) were asked how they found recent jobs and expected to search for future jobs. Men were more likely to use personal, especially same-sex, contacts. Sources of job information, assistance, and advice tended to channel job seekers toward predominantly male or female occupations, depending on job seeker's…