Hello: My name is Jess Porter, and I have been reading emails here for about 3 months. This is a fascinating mail list for me. My traning and background is in computers, so the electronic part of the WWW I know, it's the Sociology where I am lacking. I am the leader of the Virtual communities Club on Ecademy. I was wondering, if anyone or two would be interested in speaking in my club forum. I can give membership for this purpose to anyone interested. A couple topics of Interest would be a comparison between ecademy and some of the other business clubs, like LinkedIN, or OpenBC, etc. Or a talk about how people's social lives are being changed by the Internet. If you are interested, just respond here, and I will contact you. You could even use this opportunity to do some research work. The Virtual communities club, is on the web, just Google "ecademy virtual Communities." Regards, Jess