List of topics covered
(February 16 - July 14, 2003)

Tools and Services:

• FlashComStudio
• Intranets.com
• Grokker
• Kubi Client
• TrainingPoint
• Flashcom applications by Userplane
• Macromedia Breeze
• Mailblocks
• Inspiration 7
• VT Survey
• Honor Roll of Best Social Software
• Poll Monkey
• XINA
• Voice2Video.net
• vClass
• CourseWork

Conferences:

• C&T 2003
• Virtual Communities 2003
• digifest 2003
• Technology Policy and Innovation
• The Good, The Bad, and the Irrelevant
• Connecting in a Wireless World
• Collaborative Communities 2003
• O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference
• Teaching OntheNet 2003
• 2003 Interactive Technologies Conference
• Many Voices, Many Places
• Social Venture Symposium 2003
• The P³ Conference
• Digital Drive Conference 2003
• Networks for People

Readings:

• Meeting in the Virtual World
• Global Information Technology Report 2002-2003
• Collaboration Cure by Russell Kay
• Making E-Learning Work in the Nonprofit Sector by Jacques LeCavalier
• Building New Communities: Learning from Weblogs by Tom Coates
• Social Software and the Politics of Groups by Clay Shirky
• Building Communities with Software by Joel Spolsky
• Migrating to Linux Not Easy for Windows Users by Tsu Dho Nimh
• From Burkas to IT for Afghan Women (story from Reuters)
• U.S. broadband dream is alive in Korea by Ken Belson
• Building an Open Source Office
• Anticipating a post-Web, post-PC world by Kevin Werbach
• Nonprofit Sector Slow to Join Internet Revolution
• Virtual Teamwork
• Robin Good's Official Guide [...]
• Permanet, Nearlynet, and Wireless Data by Clay Shirky
• Desktop Linux Technology and Market Overview by Bart Decrem
• The Digital Divide That Wasn't by Amey Stone
• Dell the Conqueror by Michael Canellos

Initiatives:

• Digital Libraries in the Classroom
• CHEF Project
• Teaching, Learning, and Technology (TLT) Group
• TechFunders Collaborative
• OpenGroupware.org
• Waitt Institute

Quotations:

• John Seely Brown: "There is a new kind of digital divide now [...]"
• Nicholas Negroponte: "Computing is not about computers anymore [...]"
• Peter Drucker: "The best way to predict the future is to create it."
• Alvin Toffler: "The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order."
• [author unknown]: "Give a person a fish and you feed him for a day [...]"
• Bill Gates: "Like almost everyone, I receive a lot of spam every day [...]"