Texas Forums and civic applications

Briefly in class today National Issues Forums came up. I got an email today from Taylor Willingham of Texas Forums and some of their efforts to use "innovative collaborative technologies like wikis and blogs to name, frame and report on public issues." Thought it might be of interest to someone, so here are the links: http://texasforums.wordpress.com/2006/10/15/working-with-the-wikis/ http://texasforums.wordpress.com/2006/10/17/20-technology-meets-old-fash... They are also experimenting with some kind of open source social networking software for the NIF network. I'm contacting Taylor to learn more about her efforts(possibly for the CIC DFE project this semester). Anne