ruralnet|online 2.0 is building a network of people and organisation from the bottom up.

ruralnet|online 2.0 empowers those working in rural development by giving them the tools they need to operate more effectively and efficiently online. You don’t ‘join’ ruralnet|online you just tell us what tools you need and we provide them for you. If you don’t know what tools you need we will help you decide. If you need further support we provide this to you both online and face to face. (continued below the images…)

	The ruralnet|online dashboard
Website: Newlands Bishop Farm	Service: RuSource	Blog:Simon’s blog
Event: Future Choices	Consultation: Warwickshire LEADER	Event: collaborate|2008

As you go about your work day by day we make the links with what others are doing and bring these together on the ruralnet|online dashboard. So you do what you do best, working for rural people and communities, and we do what we do best, linking people up doing similar things so that you can help each other and not reinvent the wheel while we inject additional support such as Experts Online and xPRESS Digest.

ruralnet|online 2.0 is built on 10 years experience of maintaining and supporting online networks and has benefitted from some of the best brains in the business of online networking who generously contributed to the co-deisgn of ruralnet|online 2.0 at the start of 2008. You can see the process here.

The ruralnet|online system is easy to use, very flexible and can be used to support a whole variety of activities. It takes the maintenance of a website or a blog out of the hands of technical people and makes it as easy as typing a letter or email.

Take a look at our case studies to see how people, ordinary people, not techies, are using the ruralnet|online system to make their work more effective and efficient.

Answers to frequently asked questions.