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Inside Web Lab
Issue 9.0
February 22, 2000
This month's really weird search engine term that
popped up in our site stats:
Annette Funnicello*
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CONTENTS
Meeting of the Minds
The Results are In!
Community of Practice Update
Sightings
Be a Web Lab Intern!
*That's not how you spell Funicello!
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Meeting of the Minds
Web Lab Advisory Board members convened last
month in NYC to discuss a number of projects
we've got in the hopper. Among these are plans to
license our small group dialogue software to
businesses, strategies for moving Web Lab into
broadband content production, and a proposed
intensive workshop for filmmakers addressing
digital production, broadband, and interactivity.
The meeting was incredibly productive, with lots of
ideas generated, and as we firm up plans around
each of these projects, we'll post information to our
Web site, and here in the newsletter.
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The Results are In
We've mentioned in past newsletters the evaluation
of the Reality Check small group dialogues, which
was funded by the MacArthur Foundation and the
Markle Foundation. That report is finally complete,
and it offers some amazing findings. (Findings
interesting enough to warrant an article this week in
Wired!) We wanted to share what we've learned, so
we've posted excerpts of the almost 400 page
report on our site. These are the most digestible
and interesting portions, so please feel free to drop
by and review it yourself.
Read the press release:
http://www.weblab.org/sgd/pr.html
Review the report:
http://www.weblab.org/sgd/evaluation.html
Read what Wired had to say:
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,34448,00.html
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Community of Practice Update
We have a match! The first initiative of Web Lab's
Community of Practice, which seeks to pair
organizations in need with Web volunteers, is
seeing some results. Among a handful of matches
made in only the second call for volunteers is the
adoption of the Samveda Training & Research
Centre, an NGO based in India that works with
learning disabled children, by Adrienne Lamberti's
Professional Communications class at Iowa State
University. The students will be helping the Centre
to develop a proposal for technology funding.
Web Lab is planning to expand the Community of
Practice further this year. We'll keep you posted on
new programs and developments. To learn more:
http://www.weblab.org/community.html
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Sightings
Marc Weiss, Web Lab's fearless leader, made it into
the Silicon Alley 100 for the second year in a row,
and we're still beaming. Marc was one of only a
handful of not-for-profiteers in this listing of influential
Alley executives. Look for the Sargent Pepper
styled cover in your in-box, or see the write up on
our site:
http://www.weblab.org/press/sar100_2000.html
We continue to be amazed by the broad appeal of
NeedCom, a Web Development Fund site which
provokes visitors to examine their feelings about
panhandling and panhandlers. NeedCom has been
covered by Salon.com, USA Today, and the
Boston Globe, and last month, "this strange site"
made it into a certain (ahem) gentlemen's (ahem)
lifestyle magazine under the heading "Because
sometimes even free porn gets boring." We can't
decide if we're appalled or flattered. Drop by
NeedCom today at:
http://www.pbs.org/weblab/needcom/
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Be a Web Lab Intern!
While the dog days of summer may seem a long
way off, the whatever-animal-they-are days of
spring are just around the corner, and Web Lab's
hiring for both seasons. We still have room
available for at least one intern for the spring
semester, and we are accepting applications for
summer interns. For a complete job description,
visit:
http://www.weblab.org/jobs/adminintern.html
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That's not how you spell Funicello!
Maybe not, but somebody out there spelled it that
way in a Yahoo! search, and they landed on the
Web Lab homepage! Go on, guess which page was
listed…
If you have other feedback about the newsletter
(outside of spelling errors and American icons),
please drop us a line and tell us about it. We 'd
love to know just what you'd like to see more of.
Here are some ideas to get you started:
__ thoughts on wider Web issues
__ stuff we think is funny
__ news in the industry
__ limericks!
__ letters from readers
__ other: _____________
__ none of the above. Please stick to the sober,
contemplative commentary we've come to expect
from the 'bLab.
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Send comments/letters to the editor at lkertz@weblab.org
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