Bainbridge Island Community Network


Marina District
Marina District




THE VIRTUAL HEART AND SOUL
OF BAINBRIDGE ISLAND

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Featured Businesses
Recent - New and renewing businesses with the community network.
Ace Hardware
Paper Products
Interiors Only Painting
Danas Showhouse
Island Green Clean
Pegasus Coffee
Doc's Marina Grill
Harbour Public House
Coming Soon
Harbour Marina
Coast Guard Auxillary - BI


Winslow Way
Streetscape Project

Would you trust the economic health of your business, life's savings, investments, economic future and retirement to these men?

Guess what?   You did
And the question is...
Did you win or lose?

coming soon
$  Real Economy  $

An economic survival kit for the individual and small business in a global economy.


TECH

The drug of choise for the new Millenium
And we're addicted... Cell Phones, DSL, WIFI, WIMAX, wireless, PDA's, HighDef, Cable, Satelite, GPS, Laptops, BlueTooth and my personal favorite, your very own personal ID/tracking implanted chip.
Does your business need it?
Do you and your kids need it?

Well... if the Internet didn't exist the Community Network wouldn't be here in its current form. We were early adopters of the use of internet technology but we prefered the KISS (keep it simple, stupid) method of application and our story is one of doing a lot at little cost in a hostile environment and so can you. (A concept I tried to get through to the city over the years, starting when Janet West was mayor. Someday I will do a cost/benefit analysis between the Community Network and the City's web site history as a comparison.)

In this project we will help you navigate the...

We'll help you decide what you need, when, choices, what's new and coming, and where to get help and service options. In the process we'll also demonstate why a Community Internet site may be one of your best assets in creating and preserving your economic future and that of all local businesses.
(Especially in a recession.)

The first thing you need to know when it comes to telecommunications is:

Local is Global
Welcome to the next evolution of the Bainbridge Island Community Network. We will be cleaning up dead links in some of the older pages we are using and bringing in new material in the next month or two. Please be patient with us. It will be worth it. In the meantime enjoy what is here and we are open to suggestions.


City News
Bainbridge Notebook: Lots of good backroom stuff on the city here.
(Ghost of the Buzz)
City's - Press release



Featured Entertainment
Seabold 2nd Saturday
Open Mic



In Winslow:
Check out Pegasus, Friday, Saturday, Sunday night music.

Featured Event
"Dinner Reads: A Literary Affair,"Saturday, May 10, 2008. A fundraising gala to benefit the Bainbridge Public Library Dinner, wine and words with readings of their own works by highly acclaimed local authors.

Of social significance

OUR CONSISTENT VISION: To be our community's 'Online Neighborhood.'

Very early, we realized that the internet had a lot of potential -- both positive and negative -- for small communities. We saw that the creation of a Community Network was a way to actualize some of that positive potential and help insulate the community from some of the negative. Here's how our vision played out in the real world.

More on the history of Bainbridge Island Community Network

Also see Bainbridge Island and Net Neutrality issue as well as The Secret Formulas of Community (also on this page) for a broader perspective.


Here is something we all need to understand. It is connected to everything: Global warming, population issues, human rights and a better quality of life. Even the survival of the planet. (needs broadband)
Watch the YouTube Trailer

After you watch the movie, here is how to
get started doing something.  
(Note #6, we're doing our part).


One of the most profound lessons I have learned in the journey I've been on all these years, is that the true measure of the value of a community is seen not by what it is, but rather in the story of what it might have been.
Dave Henry - Builder and Craftsman of the Virtual Community

Featured Environmental Issue
Bristol Bay, Alaska
Is in trouble
Locally, Sage Fly Rods and other companies are stepping forward to help. So can you.