WELCOME to: Kate Smith - Education Services Practice leader for the Champaign, IL branch of WORDLINK, a business and technical consulting firm; Burt Apple - who provides services for IntraLearn and will present workshops on life planning and self management via the Internet; Hugh Hanes - president of Computer Command Corp., a company that has supported K-12 in South Texas for 30 years; Ed Czarnecki - who has run a labor program at Iowa University and now produces a newsletter for union Education Departments employees of University Labor Education Centers.

Tammy Wenzel - ICS, UW-Extension, who is assisting ICS staff with markup and updates of new DESIEN issues; Pete Yaeger - Information Systems Specialist at UW-Washington County; Randy Crozier - previously a Help Desk Administrator and now Network Administrator for the UW-Marinette campus; Mark Vladick - of UW-Baraboo, who for 25 years has been instrumental in technology infrastructure decisions and technology support at the UW-Colleges; Walter Mueller - a Network Administrator for UW-Manitowoc and UW-Sheboygan with a variety of distance education responsibilities and Robert O'Donnell - an Instructional Technology Specialist at UW-Marathon County who specializes in information technology education for business, educators and administrators.

Al Patenaude, Ph.D., - an Assistant Prof. of Criminology and Criminal Justice in Arkansas, with an academic and teaching background in distance education; Dale Hollmen - now working in technical support and program coordination at Dutchess County BOCES in NY; and Pat Smith - Computer Education Coordinator in the Dept. of Education Resources, who trains at Eastern Health System, Inc., Birmingham.

Other new subscribers this month are: Fred Vornbrock, Nilesh Singit, Merrolee Pinman, Ira Apple, Anita Palladino, Hiram Caton, Gene Anderson, Ruaire, Jeff Thompson, Jane Bartlett, Julia Tipton and Faye Vowell.