I have not forgotten this. I plan to have that meeting early in the Spring semester. What I am doing on the URL is to experiment with groups within existing technology and explore the possibilities of future technologies. Now people can communicate by E-mail, as we are doing. We could join Chat groups, a newsgroup, or newsletter on synergy, some of us have I-phone, CuSeeMe, et al.
Most human interaction involves non-verbal, visual and sense perception clues.
So, we have a human animal evolved on the basis of groups, of group dynamics involving language and empathic symbolic projections called synergy. Can some of this energy be done at a distance on the tools now possible or will it happen in the near future with better tools. Building constructive styles, affiliative, humanistic, support groups working together but physically apart must be very different than face to face. I have developed a set of group activities designed to encourage the Constructive styles you find in your research make for productive groups. Any teacher knows when the light is turned on, when the groups takes off, there is excitement in the air, and synergy happens.