Todd, I don't have a big foot print online or in person so I wouldn't expect to be known to you, feel free to treat this advice from a random on the internet. Do you have any public samples of your writing or philosophy? I personally don't recognize your name or cant quickly link your contributions to you. What are you looking to acomplish with the forward? If your looking to get people that will help you sell maybe getting on a podcast would be a away to get a recognizable name to read it an...| Extreme Programming, formerly a Yahoo! group