Greetings, I'm currently in the early stages of putting together a cross-institutional research project on social networking software. The research will be survey-based, attempting to sample social-software use and trends at a number of different colleges and universities. In writing to AOIR, I'm hoping to meet five other US-based researchers who would like to simultaneously explore social networks use on their campus. I've posted a longer description of my ideas on my blog: http://chimprawk.blogspot.com/2006/05/cross-institutional-social-networks.ht... If you're interested, or know someone who might be interested, please contact me off-list. I think this is a wonderful project for a graduate student interested in social networking software research. Thank you for your assistance. Fred -- Fred Stutzman SILS, UNC Chapel Hill http://claimID.com/fred AIM: chimprawk 919-260-8508