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Florida Writers Network Organizational Meeting University of Central Florida

Title

Florida Writers Network Organizational Meeting University of Central Florida

Type

text

Subject

Writers' workshops | Computer networks

Creator

Skellings, Edmund

Date

1989-08-07

Format

pdf

Item

https://chell.lib.fit.edu/plugins/Dropbox/files/files/Skellings/Manuscripts/MAN-8908-01.pdf

Description

Edmund Skellings discusses the Florida Writers Network which aims to bring the benefits of microcomputer networking to Creative Writing Programs of the State University System of Florida. Skellings coined the name "networkshop" to describe a writers workshop that used the internet. IBM donated computers and software for this new program.

Citation

Skellings, Edmund, “Florida Writers Network Organizational Meeting University of Central Florida,” John H. Evans Library Digital Collections, accessed December 25, 2024, https://digcollections.lib.fit.edu/items/show/3314.