[Air-L] Muse: The National Internet2 K20 Initiative Online Social Network

[Peter Timusk]

You may be interested in this site

http://www.takingitglobal.org/

which is a social education site for youth social networks. I know  
one of the programmers in Ottawa but they are based in Toronto Canada.

Peter in Ottawa with snow melting and flood waters rising

On 16-Apr-08, at 4:02 PM, Gerry Mckiernan wrote:
> Friends/
>
> A Most Pleasant Wednesday PM Discovery [Thanks Jacob S.]
>
> Muse: The National Internet2 K20 Initiative Online Social Network
>
> ANN ARBOR, Mich. - April 15, 2008
> The Internet2 K20 Initiative today announced that it has launched a  
> brand new social networking site called Muse  which seeks to  
> significantly enhance collaboration, information-sharing and  
> technology opportunities for the over 50,000 K-12 schools,  
> community colleges, libraries and museums in 38 U.S.states that are  
> now connected to the Internet2 backbone network. The site is also  
> expected to provide a better bridge between the U.S. K20 community  
> and its international counterparts worldwide. Within the short time  
> since launching, the new site has already experienced significant  
> uptake within the community.
>
> [snip]
>
> While the site continues to rapidly expand in use, Muse plans to  
> introduce the ability for users to create topically-based  
> communities, chat in real time about projects and interests,  
> receive email "Museletters" tailored to those specific interests  
> and provide RSS feeds to broadcast information on new users,  
> projects and organizations as the site grows. In doing so, the site  
> intends to provide the community the ability to develop stronger,  
> more comprehensive collaboration groups and to promote the more  
> rapid adoption of advanced networking applications among this  
> unique set of Internet2 users.
>
> For additional details and links, please visit
>
> [ http://scitechnet.blogspot.com/2008/04/muse-national-internet2- 
> k20-initiative.html ]
>
> Regards,
>
> /Gerry
>
> Gerry McKiernan
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> Science and Technology Librarian
> Iowa State University Library
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