dear colleagues, Do you want to learn more about the potential of social networking Web sites to serve development goals and practitioners ? Please consult this interesting article on "Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship" written by danah m. boyd and Nicole B. Ellison and published by the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication (JMC). website url : http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol13/issue1/boyd.ellison.html Shri Ram Pandey Information and Knowledge Management Trainee NCSI,Indian Institute Of Science,Bangalore Official mail: shriram@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Visit also at : http://ram.mlib.googlepages.com/home "Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm." -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.