Dear AoIR colleagues: on behalf of the members of the German Society for Online Research (DGOF) we would like to send our warm greetings and best wishes for your conference with its excellent program. Both our associations are devoted to using the Internet as an object or a tool for research, and doing so by connecting internationally. We have been in contact with your president, Steve Jones (hi Steve ;-), and some of your board members to discuss ways of cooperation between AoIR and DGOF. As a first step we are happy to report that the fifth German Online Research conference (GOR) in 2002 will be held just two days before the next AoIR meeting at the University of Hohenheim in Southwest Germany. Part of the conference will be held in the local castle. The timing will allow members of both communities to attend both conferences on one trip. DGOF is devoted to the promotion of Online Research and Internet Science in connecting the academic and the business world. It's GOR conferences feature dozens of presentations (2001: 86, including 29 international ones) in English and German and are attended by about 50% visitors from academia and 50% from the business world. There were 320 participants from nine different countries in 2001. For 2002 we expect a further increase in participation. Please refer to our Website at http://www.dgof.de/indexe.htm for more information about DGOF and GOR. We are looking forward to meeting you and cooperating with you. Best wishes, the DGOF board: Olaf Hofmann (president), Wolfgang Bandilla (vice president), Lorenz Graef (treasurer), Ulf-Dietrich Reips (vice president, international affairs)