It’s been an amazing journey in 2006 podcasting and I met many new friends along the way. I appreciate much their time and how they care about helping communities be successful on the Net. I particularly enjoyed speaking at American Distance Education Consortium meeting last month at University of Florida Hilton Conference Center in Gainesville Florida. ADEC presentation titled Web 2.0 and Community Innovations in Higher Education.

Scott Gatz, Senior Director of Personalization, Yahoo! Inc. Scott has a great blog and is a great contribution to what we know about social media. Check out Steve Kim, Scott Gatz, and me on Yahoo! Sunnyvale CA campus:

    Steve Kim, Scott Gatz, and me on Yahoo! Sunnyvale CA campus

The George Lucas Educational Foundation, Steve Arnold and Milton Chen visited with College of Education and community of Corvallis and shared thoughts about their experiences. Theresa Hogue does an amazing job with our guests in Corvallis! Iwas invited along with Yahoo!, Sun Microsystems, and others to a Web 2.0 summit on Skywalker Ranch. Amazing place and I stayed in Skywalker Inn. Cool. Check out our group picture in front of the ‘main house’ at Skywalker Ranch.

    Yahoo!’s Randy Farmer was also a summit speaker and all stayed as guest in The Inn on Skywalker Ranch and Randy has a nice Flickr set of photos from our visit.