A five year demonstration project related to CNs and economic development is described at Montana-Chocie.
I'll present on this project at the Rural Telecom Congress conference Oct. 12. www.ruraltelecon.org

I'd like to share here a few unique resources:
There are four successive levels of sophistication for CNs, articulated at Four Levels

NSF offers free CN's with seven collaborative tools.
I've written a model youth project designed to demonstrate to local adult leaders how a CN can benefit a community.
A full blown regional project model is described at Seeds

Caithness, Scotland has the best CN model I've seen listing local businesses, organizations, topical news, all in a nicely presented and functional content management system. Let me know if you've seen anything quite this nice.

The business directory in Bethel, Alaska is the most functional such listing I've seen anywhere, plus, citizen contributions of news online is well demonstrated.

These and other innovative presentations of community information are at Lone-Eagles

Any contributions you might have regarding specific innovations and CN's would be most welcome.

I've created two CN resources, a recommended reading list of original articles I've written: Readings
With one particular published piece, The Future of Community Economic Development
And an International Community Networking Clearinghouse