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The year was 2005 and we had decided to hold our first Blackboard User Conference at CUNY. At the time, we were a fledgling Blackboard User Group. We had first come together in the fall of 2004 for economic reasons: a host of universities coming together to see if we could find efficiencies by banding together. I remember that first meeting in the large conference room on West 57th Street. We were just getting introduced then, and we discovered that we had many things i