What Do These People Have In Common?

[Stephen Coffman]

SCOUG, known to most of you as the infamous Southern California Online Users Group, invites you to test your wits on a little quiz.



What Do the Following People Have in Common?


-- Scott Kermit, President and Founder of About.com

-- Jose Marie Griffiths, Chief Information Office, The University of Michigan

-- Kay Henshall, Manager of the QandA.com Virtual Reference Project

-- Pavel Curtis, Developer Placeware, Web Conferencing Software

-- Jean Heilig, Director Research and Information, Jones International eGlobal Library

-- Carole Leita, Coordinator, Librarian's Index to the Internet

-- Vickie Taylor, Capital Group Research Inc.

-- Barbara Quint, Mother SCOUG and Editor, Searcher Magazine


Please Select From the Answers Below

--- a) They all lost wads of money in the dot.com stock crash

--- b) They each have won a McArthur Foundation Genius Grant, and get to spend the next five years doing anything they damn 	 well please

--- c) They all were once members of the Annette Funicello Fan Club, but none will admit it today (click here for details http://www.mousestars.com/steve/annette/afmouse1.htm)

--- d) They will all be speaking at SCOUG's 2001 Spring Workshop on Building Information Communities this May 4th at the 	 Burbank Hilton


Well, we know this was a tough one .. but if you guessed D) you got it right.  Because each of them will be at SCOUG's Spring Workshop on Building Information Communities to be held Friday, May 4, 2001 at the Burbank Hilton right across from the Burbank Airport and only minutes from Jay Leno and The Tonight Show).  And you should be there too.


All kidding aside, folks.  As usual, SCOUG has put together a really tremendous Spring Program .. .this year the focus is on the some of the new technologies and techniques libraries and information professionals are using to develop information infrastructures for the organizations they serve --- and we are looking at all different types of libraries here ... public, academic and corporate / special .. there is something for
everybody.  These programs are a labor of love made possible by a bunch of very dedicated, hard-working volunteer librarians, who really ought to get a life  -- but we'll be happy if you just come and see what we have worked so hard to put together for you.

For further information and to register ... just visit the SCOUG Web site at www.scougweb.org.

Thanks, and we are all looking forward to seeing you there.

SC


PS... and we are really as much fun as everybody says  .. come and find out.