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Week 3

February 3 - 9, 2003

Issues Discussed in Week 3

It was a fantastic week with diversified threads, lively discussions, one-on-one chats and a couple of conferences. Hope this page will help sort out ideas.

The preview of what was to come at Tapped In on Feb 2 was fabulous, but yesterday's grand finale at Tapped In, Tapped In 2, Yahoo Messenger with webcams and Wimba Voice Direct (our first group attempt courtesy of Michael Coghlan) topped it all. I was truly amazed at how well and smoothly VD's beta version performed and how easily we interacted from East (Australia, China, Japan, Taiwan and United Arab Emirates) to West (Portugal and Spain), and vice-versa. It seemed that we were all right around the corner! Thanks again, Michael, for a fantastic and fun new toy!

Our thanks to you all for your contributions and for helping Rita, Sus and me make this a successful week.

BTW, the threads in the table below follow an order of appearance.

The Week 3 team,

Teresa, Susanne and Rita