I enjoyed the conference very much, Minneapolis too, and I'm positively sure now that missing the first conference was and is a shame. Some quick thoughts on the conference though, maybe they're of use for organising the next one. I attended the pre-conference web analysis workshop and I feel that the format of that workshop worked very well. You're stuck in a room for most of the day with about 20-30 people, so you get to know eachother a little better. Working through different aspects of a particular topic also means that you get progressively more indepth and at the end of the day I felt that my thinking and understanding of the matter had been enriched by the trajectory taken in the workshop. It might be an idea to have several such day-long workshops on different topics, either as it was organised now, sort of semi-official, or maybe as a part of the conference. This ties in with something I briefly spoke about with David Silver. A lot of people work in their own niche of research and for whatever reason have never ventured into MUDs, IRC, games or database driven websites (and/or ethnographic, qualitative or quantitative research). It might be a nice idea to have something of a 'technology workshop,' where you could get a good overview of the different technologies behind the different fields/environments people research (and maybe, as the methodological icing on the cake, what methods they use). Although I understand the need for the crammed schedule of the conference, I missed a proper, organised lunch break where you can sit down, eat, relax and chat with some people. Maybe this is an American vs European thing as I discussed with some people, but having no lunch break in the programme means you either skip lunch, skip a session or attend a session munching on a sub. As they say, HTH, just my .02 euro; I liked the conference as it was and these are just a couple of things that I think might be even better next time. Frank. -- The Cyberculture, Identity and Gender Resources ==> http://fragment.nl/resources/