I think the Ask Nature forum/ Biomimicry Institute might be able to use Twitter as a useful social networking tool. For anyone that doesn't already know, Twitter is growing networking site where you follow / are followed by people to receive their "tweets" (which are updates less than 140 characters). I personally would be very interested in following people's projects in biomimicry, and Twitter is a great informal environment for staying up to date with people and events that you're interested in. Plus, I think the Biomimicry Institute could hook a lot of the younger generation who are still deciding on their future education using this tool.

I checked it out, and "asknature" is available as a username. It looks like somebody's name-sitting "biomimicry" and "biomimetics" for now, but I think we could complain and potentially get those accounts as well (or something similar).

What do you guys think?

It's up and running! http://twitter.com/AskNatureTweets

I am tweeting AskNature and biomimicry related tidbits at http://twitter.com/tgreiser