If you’ve attended any recent Flashforward conferences, you’ll remember the introNetworks community networking environment we had running on-site. For anyone who hasn’t seen it, it’s a great example of how to use the latest Flash features to build a web-based common space, and it uses some very interesting filtering to help you find people you might enjoy talking to — basically we were using tags before tags were cool.

Yesterday we launched a full-time, year-round installation of the Flashforward introNetwork and pre-populated it with — get this — everyone who attended any Flashforward conference, ever, including not just paid attendees but also speakers, staff, volunteers, etc.

We want this to be a permanent perk of attending a Flashforward conference, and another means (along with this blog) of establishing a community that persists beyond the three days twice a year when we all get together in the same building.

If you sign up for Flashforward 2005 San Francisco, you’ll get your welcome email to the introNetwork shortly afterwards. If you already registered or are a previous attendee, your email should have arrived yesterday. If it didn’t, it likely means that the email address we have on file for you is out of date. If this is the case and you want to join in, just email us your name, current address, and which conference you attended — we’ll update your account and re-send the welcome email.

Already logged in to the introNetwork and looking around? Feel free to say hi — this blogger’s name is Christoph Wiese — and post something in the comments here to let other people know what you think of the experience.

See you in cyberspace! Ha ha, I crack myself up.

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