Dear Respected Participants of Nanog Greetings! I introduce myself as Ananth Chiravuri, a doctoral student at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. As part of my doctoral dissertation, I am working on how best to come to a consensus when capturing knowledge, and am studying the effectiveness of two techniques. I am writing to request help because in order for my research to contribute meaningfully, I need the participation of real world experts and not students. In this regard, I want to acknowledge and thank the experts, who responded very graciously, for agreeing to participate in my experiment. However, I still have a long way to go because the overall number of experts needed for my experiment is 100 and am resending an email with my request. The tasks that I have chosen relate to networking and therefore, I am looking for experts or professionals in network management or network design. (An expert would be anyone who has had more than 12-18 months of experience). The experiment will be conducted on-line using virtual teams and the time required may be at most 3-4 hours asynchronously (you can participate at your convenience). I am willing to customize the report to meet the requirements of your organization and anonymity of participants and the firms will be ensured. The results of this report will indicate an effective technique of capturing knowledge using virtual teams of experts. It may help your firm to use the technique to capture knowledge and come to a consensus at a much faster time, thus saving precious resources and time. Please kindly email me at ananthc2@uwm.edu or at anantc99@yahoo.com if you are interested to participate. I am looking for a total of 50 members (10 teams of five each) for each technique (a total of 100 participants) and therefore, I sincerely request and would highly appreciate if each one of you (and your firms) could help me and give me some of your precious time. Most importantly, your participation will ensure support for academic research in a big manner. Thanking you all in advance. I apologize for any inconvenience, if caused. Happy Holidays to all and hope that you make mine happy too! Regards ananth chiravuri Univ of Wisconsin Milwaukee Milwaukee, WI ananthc2@uwm.edu/anantc99@yahoo.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail