Other Networks Newsletter

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Other Networks Newsletter (1981-1988) was published and edited by Stan Pokras and Seth Horwitz out of the Public Interest Media Project's office in the Northern Liberties section of Philadelphia. Its tagline was "A Newsletter About Networks of People." The first issues were laid out by hand with paper and scissors; subsequent issues took advantage of then-new desktop publishing technology. This metamorphosis in production was paralleled in the publication's content: E.g., earlier issues mentioned "multilogues", in which social networks were created by people sending snail-mail letters to one person who would then send out copies to all; later issues increasingly described uses of computers for interpersonal interconnection. All of this, of course, went out to the public far in advance of the advent of 21st-century tools like Facebook and Twitter.

Note: The Public Interest Media Project changed its name to Nonprofit Technology Resources in 1993.

Issues

Here are all the Other Networks issues in PDF format:

• Other Networks, Volume 1 Number 1 (Spring 1981)
  • The Freelance Directory
  • Learning Networks
  • Free University Network
  • The Lander's Herald
  • The Seed Saver's Exchange
  • Women Outdoors
  • The Open Network
  • Books
  • Small World

• Other Networks, Volume 1 Number 2 (Fall 1981)
  • Editorial
  • Bicycle Network
  • Joshua
  • Growing Without Schooling
  • Small World
  • Linkage
  • Women's Referral Service
  • Help for the Career Changer
  • Solar Interest Exchange
  • Long Out Network
  • Resources
  • Network Notes
  • Letters

• Other Networks, Volume 1 Number 3 (Summer 1982)
  • Multilogues
  • About the Kootenay Directory
  • A National Home Business Network
  • Changing Institutions
  • An Experiment
  • Computerized Communication
  • Network: Two Basic Dimensions
  • Comment
  • The Barter Project
  • The Spiral News Network
  • The Networker's Package
  • Small World Messages
  • How We Got Your Address
  • Network Notes
  • Resources
  • Letters
  • Budget and Subscription Form

• Other Networks, Volume 1 Number 4 (Fall 1982)
  • Introduction
  • A Networking Game
  • Bob Theobald is a Futurist
  • Continuing Education via Telecommunications
  • Visions and Dreams
    • Proposal for a Communications Center
    • Computer Lib/Dream Machines
    • Infoman
    • Vision of a Neighborhood Office in 1985
  • "Participate" on the Source
  • Agricultural Networks
  • Book Review: Networking: A First Report and Directory
  • 4 Pages from Folks Who Used an "Interest Book" at the WFS Conference
  • Small World Messages
  • Resources
  • Letters
  • Budget and Subscription Form

• Other Networks, Volume 2 Number 1 (Summer 1983)
  • People's Yellow Pages Simplified
  • Open Network
  • Info Baza
  • Densmore Discoveries
  • Healing Light Foundation
  • Professional Writers Network
  • The WWOOF Network
  • Networks in Community Planning -- Two Papers
  • New England Network of Light
  • Guide to Health Oriented Periodicals
  • Philadelphia Resource Guide
  • Computers in Communications
    • Book Review: The Complete Handbook of Personal Computer Communications
    • Two Newsletters: Dial-Out and Reset
    • A System: Delphi
  • Resources
  • Small World
  • Letters
  • Apple Program
  • Subscription Form

• Other Networks, Volume 2 Number 2 (Spring 1984)
  • Reading and Writing for Answers
  • Social Work Practice
  • Help Yourself to the Answers
  • Eskimos and Humanistic Psychologists Say "Chimo"
  • Push-Button Adventures in America
  • Computerized Information Filing System
  • The Range and Scope of Networks, Part 1
  • Chatting Via Computer
  • Civic Information and Techniques Exchange
  • Whole Again Resource Guide
  • The Networking Institute
  • The International Network for Social Network Analysis
  • Winged Mercury Missive
  • Omniquest
  • Public Interest Computer Association
  • The Ultimate Vehicle Family
  • The Computer Phone Book
  • Small World
  • Resources
  • Letters

• Other Networks, Volume 2 Number 3 (Summer 1986)
  • This Issue: Many-to-Many Media
  • New Amphibians
  • Paper-Based Conferencing
  • Action Linkage M-t-M's
  • The Evolution of a Computer Conferencing System
  • Local Bulletin Board Systems
  • Comparing Ham Radio with Computer Bulletin Boards
  • The Media Project's Grant from Apple Computer

• Other Networks, Volume 2 Number 4 (Fall 1988)
  • Idea Husbandry: Toward a "Global Suggestion Box"
  • A Communications Kit: Ideas and Queries to Help You and Me Communicate Better with Others
  • A Letter from a Traveling Networker
  • Action Linkage
    • Agreements of the Open Space
    • AL Face-to-Face Set for September
  • Short Features
  • Small World
  • Resource Notes