ENA UPDATE
by Lisa Kimball


ENA members who could get to Philadelphia for a Memorial Day lunch
had a special treat. In addition to good fellowship and a lively
exchange of ideas, we finally signed the papers to incorporate the
organization in Pennsylvania. We have more organizational work to be
done to satisfy the Internal Revenue Service and complete our
planning for the next couple of years-- but this is an important
start! One of the other outcomes of this meeting was our feeling
that more informal f-t-f get-togethers would be valuable. ENA members
are invited to express their interest in joining up for regional
meetings.

Members on UNISON have been engaged in some soul searching about
ENA's organizational structure and whether or not it needs to be
revised to make it easier to achieve our goals. Some feel a
traditional hierarchical structure would clarify roles and help get
more done. Others want to continue to experiment with a more
network-like structure and work to improve the current leadership
mechanisms instead. In the course of the discussion, many excellent
ideas have emerged and work is underway on several initiatives
including "spring cleaning" of ENA's database on UNISON, the
development of a clearer set of *basic* informational notes, and
some new ideas about how we can share the information we generate.

We'll be experimenting here in NETWEAVER with some ideas which
resulted from this discussion. One idea we're considering is
instituting an ENA Journal which could publish some of the more
theoretical material about the medium so we can make NETWEAVER's
focus more on applications and other material of interest to users.
Your feedback about this would be appreciated! Please take a close
look at the Table of Contents in this issue-- we're trying out a new
way to help readers select articles of interest to them and manage
their information more easily.

In this issue you can read about a new network for Presbyterians, a
continuation of our coverage of Telelaw issues, ECONET, a special
network linking service on GEMSERVICE, the TWICS network in Japan,
and a design movement which shares some characteristics of the
information age. We hope you *enjoy* it!