The goal of Manual 2, Collaborative Technology Development, is to provide a forum through which voluntary organizations can explore the process of collaborating to develop technology tools.

What is a Technology Tool?

As a Community Based Training (CBT) organization, our main mission or purpose is to help people and for us to do that we need to use technology everyday. We use phones, email, Internet, computers, MSN, faxes, VCRs and some of us even know how to operate that dreaded DVD player. We are most comfortable with various software packages but mostly MS Word and/or WordPerfect. We use these tools because they are necessary to our profession but we may not necessarily think of them as a "technology tool." But that is what they are in their simplest form. Technology is anything but simple. We now have blackberry, iPhones, smart boards, blogs, wikispaces, interactive job boards, online discussions, online conferences, distance learning, face book…the list could take up this whole manual and we would need to also include a “definition page” just to figure it all out. We are so reliant on electronic-based technology tools that when the Internet goes down we feel we cannot function. We forget that we can pick up the phone or actually mail a letter. We want and expect our technology tools to make our lives easier.

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