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Our facilitator is Leatrice Ellzy of the National Black Arts Festival (NBAF).

A couple of big media types here in this session… one says she’s here bc she sees now that social networking is “kinda critical.”

NBAF is using Second Life as part of its foray into social media.

Leatrice’s two favorite magazines are Wired and Fast Company. Her dad made her read The Third Wave when she was younger. Says that what that book was about is what is happening now. Makes me think of “As We May Think” by Vannevar Bush.

Looked at an Atlanta Trees video and talked about ways to socialize their website and get videos like this out to the public.

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Wow, a lot has happened in the social networking world in the past year. Josh Hallet said in his morning wrapup that, for one thing, people in the know aren’t using the term “web2.0″ anymore. He said that is kind of like saying, “Hey, did you see our website? It has links. Isn’t that cool?”

Another difference since last year noticed in different ways by participants is that we aren’t arguing any longer about new media versus old, or whether this is all going somewhere or going to catch on . . . it is here now, like or not.

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