Well, today was my (first) meeting with the Rector and the 2 Vice-Rectors of the Donau-Universität Krems. We did talk about future cooperation and even shares in the enterprises to come (more on that later). Unfortunately they were not prepared to talk about the Social Software Lab. So we decided to postpone that issue and schedule another meeting. Some things take time.

Sidenote: explaining them the issue of Social Software - though not all of them were interested in the topic - made me feel like a somewhow crazy evangelist.

What seperates Social Software from Social Informatics? This mission statement makes ist quite clear I think.

Social-informatics: “From most general prospective the notion of social informatics relates to interaction between society and information-communication technologies (ICT), what can be observed in three directions:

- interaction between society and ICT, i.e. social aspects of computerization, what can be observed at two levels:

- interaction of ICT and society at micro level of specific ICT applications, what includes individual (i.e.