Just over a year after our ‘found chord’ double-symposium at NLC2022*, we were thrilled to hear today that our book proposal has been approved to take a place in the formidable Networked Learning Springer book series. Our proposal takes in updated versions of the symposium papers and weighty additional original chapters from Norm Friesen, Stig Borsen Hansen and Lucy Osler.

So, today, our vision for advancing phenomenology in networked learning took a big step forwards. It was so encouraging to read our proposal reviewers’ comments. This is the fruit of tremendous effort and commitment by the author/editorial team, some of whom have faced up against life’s severest head-winds. I feel a great sense of gratitude to chapter and book reviewers who have taken such a positive and constructive approach, all but guaranteeing that the finished product will be greatly enhanced. Of course, good feedback entails yet more work to realise that potential!

*The symposium papers are available now collated within the NLC22 proceedings available on the NLC website (pages 423-482).