Hello,

I am involved in some online deliberation porjects and just discovered
this group. [It has 87 members but has not been very active--is it
still alive?]

If anyone is listening, I'd appreciate any thoughts on the following:

- One of my interests is in tools that support the ethical elements of
collaboration, communication, and decision-making. I am, for
instance, inspired by Habermas' Discourse Ethics. In particular I'm
interested in tools that support the cognitive/emotional skills needed
to engage deeply in dialog and multiple perspectives. Does anyone
have pointers to like-minded projects or research?

- Is there proceedings of presentation summaries for the Online
Deliberation DIAC-2005 conference?

- I recently discovered truthmapping.com. I see a lot of graphical
mind-map/concept map/sensemaking tools out there (this is a
particularly nice one for deliberation). Do you know of documents
pointing to such tools being used successfully in authentic situations
to foster deliberation and knowledge building?

--cheers, Tom