This week I am participating in a virtual 5-day course on Blog, Wikis, Social Networks - what can social software do for you?, hosted by Social Computing Alliance. It's not an alliance of the Social Software Alliance variety, but an organization where Lisa Kimball and Tom Mandel will be hosting some events, conference calls and writing a book. You may know Lisa and Tom from their days creating Caucus community software. Its great having some new voices that are old hands at community entering the fold. There are some great real world events this week too, more on that later.