10 Years of Jewish Networking achievements and problems

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10 Years of Jewish Networking achievements and
problems

• Extraordinary expansion of connectivity for
  individuals, families and institutions
• Most of the activity is inter-personal mail
  exchanges, chats, forums and distribution lists
• about 8,000 Jewish Web sites
• The sites are focused on specific subject
  matters a given locality, an institution or
  denomination, an interest group age,
  observance, gender, politics back

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some jewish portals

• Jewish Agency UJC United Jewish Communities
• Orthodox Union Reform JudaismUnited Synagogue
  of Conservative Judaism
• Shamash Maven Virtual Jerusalem Jewishnet
• Academic Jewish Studies JewishGen Jewish
  Studies Network JCCs Cantors
• Museums Holocaust Diaspora Yad Vashem
• Libraries National Library Digitization RAMBI
• Torahnet Observatory of Jewish Education

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Alexas Ranking of Web Sites
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general interest portals

• Four portals 50 of surfers AOL (32), MSN
  (7.5), Yahoo (7.2), Napster (3.6)
• MSN (Microsoft Network) localization for 20
  countries
• AOL largest American portal 29 million 80m
  ICQ
• Israeli Portals
• Walla.co.il (44.2) Nana.co.il (32.2)
  MSN.co.il (26.5) Ynet.co.il (18.9) Iol.co.il
  (17.3) Tapuz.co.il (16.3) Maariv.co.il
  (12.8) start.co.il (12.8) Haaretz.co.il
  (12.6) Netking.co.il (10.4) Yellowpages.co.il
  (7.6) Globes.co.il (7.2) TheMarker.com
  (2.8).
• 1.2.2001 TIM Survey 1,000 surfers from age 13 and
  more visited at least once a week
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Internet Penetration Israel

• December 2001 30 all telephony minutes
• 2000 2001
• Households 29 42
• Business 44 55
• Active surfers 956,000
• Connections
• Dial-up 476,000 579,000
• ADSL 2,000 38,000
• Rate of connectivity growth 29
• Source Uri Olnik, General Manager MOC, 3.12.01
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services in general portals

• Channels of Information
• Communities
• Customization of interface personal portal
• Chats, Forums, E-Mailing Lists,
• Personal Web Pages, photo family albums,
  create your own communities
• eMail, Agenda and Calendars, Virtual Disks
• Learning activities
• Gaming
• Text, graphics, video, audio, music
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