Finally, check your college or university’s website—if you dig deeply, you may be surprised by the large number of networks in which it participates. These might include research consortia, alliances...

Finally, check your college or university’s website—if you dig deeply, you may be surprised by the large number of networks in which it participates. These might include research consortia, alliances with community agencies to promote regional development, public-private partnerships with industry to boost job retraining, compacts with local community colleges, coalitions with other institutions to lobby the legislature for state funding. Make a list of these networks and then try to find examples of a satellite network, a joint-venture network, and a dynamic network. Next, dig even deeper in your institution’s website and see if you can discover the technologies these networks use to communicate and share information