ENA UPDATE
by Lisa Kimball

Welcome to Volume 4 of NETWEAVER!

It's exciting to realize that the Electronic Networking Association (ENA) and NETWEAVER have been around that long. Our first issue of NETWEAVER was published in August, 1985 and we've been publishing monthly ever since.

NETWEAVER now appears on dozens of systems around the world. Back issues of NETWEAVER form a rich archive of material about the management, applications, and development of electronic networking. One of our goals for 1988 is to find more ways to make this valuable resource available more widely through the use of additional media and channels of distribution.

As we make plans for our next ENA f-t-f conference in May (see Conference Bulletin in this issue), it's clear that the interests and projects of ENA members have expanded and evolved over the past three years. In addition to our continued interest in the medium of computer conferencing and electronic networking, ENA has begun to reflect strong interest in the relationship of networks to other media and to its applications in a broad range of endeavors e.g. applications such as computer-supported coorperative work, electronic journalism, distance education, and electronic democracy which integrate asynchronous networks with interactive video, graphics, hypertext, desktop publishing, and CD-ROM.

ENA also continues to focus on social and policy issues such as broad access to media and the regulatory environment of the information business. In this issue of NETWEAVER, we're glad to present a series of articles on the use of telecommunications by nonprofit organizations and the issues it raises both for the organizations and their constituents. You'll also find an article about one of the leaders in the application of networking to executive education.

Enjoy! We're looking forward to including articles from more authors and about new applications in Volume 4!