Please address as Professors Cho and McCaskill (just kidding).

We are really excited about the opportunity to develop and teach a course on social media strategies and Web 2.0 technologies to the undergraduate students at the University of Texas at Austin. This course will be offered for the Spring 2009 semester. We will be co-teaching/developing the course with Prof. Karl Lang who will be a visiting professor from CUNY Baruch.

This course will take a hands on approach focusing on understanding how today’s businesses are using Web 2.0 technologies to develop new methods of extending their brands and reaching customers.

We want to extend this course beyond the UT classroom. Over the coming months, we plan to make Texas competitive in today's Web 2.0 world by tapping Texas' social media leaders and nurturing these students. The social media camera should no longer be focused on the coasts; Austin has something to add to this picture.

It was great to meet all of you at SXSW. We are excited about the product we are developing and feel that it will help the Web 2.0 community. Thank you for all of your feedback and we look forward to getting our beta release out to you.