• Did David Musslewhite motivate you to take a coffee break? Then relax and sip lattés with your CoF cell. Take the group to a funky café for your next meeting. Before you go, spend some time exploring local coffeehouses for a casual, offbeat hang out. Start your search with a worldwide directory of cafés that boasts 11,247 links searchable by location. Citysearch.com also provides a city guide to coffee shops and tea bars.
• Take Jeff Gates's challenge to be a fully engaged citizen. Identify a policy that concerns your CoF cell and take action in your community. Check out the National Center for Policy Analysis for a useful roundup of issues, from education and campaign-finance reform to crime and global warming. To jumpstart your effort, explore an interactive town hall that allows you to sign or create a petition and write a letter to one of 170,000 local, state, or federal officials.
• Did Michael Margolis inspire you to help bridge the digital divide? volunteer at a community-based training program for your next CoF meeting? Refer to Greenthumb for a directory of tech-training centers for senior and disadvantaged workers. Cisco Systems has created 3,695 community-based academies that teach Net literacy and computer-networking skills to high school and college students worldwide. Find a location near you. To learn more about the digital divide, refer to relevant fact sheets provided by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration. And for inspiration, read about success stories at Byte Back, a nonprofit organization that provides computer-training services to inner city residents in Washington D.C.

Christine Canabou contributed this month's Next Steps.

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