The Internet and technology for the human services / Howard Jacob Karger, Joanne Levine.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Karger, Howard Jacob, 1948-
Other Authors: Levine, Joanne
Language:English
Published: New York : Longman, [1999], ©1999.
Subjects:
Human services > United States > Computer network resources.
Social service > United States > Computer network resources.
Social work administration > United States > Data processing.
Internet.
Physical Description:xx, 396 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • What is the Internet?
  • Information policy in the electronic information age: ethical, policy, and legal implications for the human services
  • The uses of the Internet for human service professionals
  • Conducting research through the Internet
  • The hardware you need to connect to the Internet
  • Choosing an Internet service provider
  • Preparing to go on-line: operating systems and dialup software
  • The battle of the Web browsers: Microsoft Internet Explorer versus Netscape Communicator
  • Mapping and searching the Internet
  • How to download files from the Internet
  • E-mail: the fast lane for sending mail
  • Human service professionals and on-line security
  • Listservs
  • Newsgroups
  • Getting the most out of the Internet: finding and using plug-ins
  • Telnet and MUD worlds
  • Creating a basic Web site: designing and publishing Web pages
  • The future of human service technology
  • Appendix: list of human service-related Internet sites.