Heh, heh. How about VPs for Virtual Participants? Can also be used as 
a verb as in, "I'm VPing for a couple of days?" ;-)

At 09:36 AM 5/22/2007, you wrote:

>Hello all

>I've spent intermittent considerable time trying to coin a new

>expression/term for lurkers --

>how about an acronym -- UPO  (Unseen Participants, Overwhelmed?)

>

>UPOs  makes me smile

>

>lurker  does not

>

>thoughts? other ideas?  [Leecy's "perched" made me smile, too -- but

>somehow poised/perched connotes non-involvement (not "flying" away with

>the insights gleaned) -- and as others have indicated, unseen does not

>necessarily mean not participating...]

>

>and I'll likely be UPO for the remainder of this week!

>Holly

>

>

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>management systems/virtual classrooms)]

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>awe and nurture in nature."

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