So we haven't been up yet a week, and the response to our community has been fantastic!  Businesses are connecting and people are communicating in ways that even we did not imagine.  Take for instance Style Curator Blog:

We added a program where you could connect your Twitter account to your B&B Encyclopedia profile and before we could starting using it ourselves, Style Curator was already on the case and a line of recent Tweets appeared.

An exciting aspect of the Encyclopedia is member contributed articles.  Author Cathy Whitlock ( re-de-sign: New Directions for your Interior Design Career (Fairchild Books) inspired us to create a new category "Design in Cinema".

Whitlock has contributed the article "The Cinema as Muse:  Then and Now".  We look forward to her upcoming book  "Designs on Film: A Century of Hollywood Art Direction" (Harper Collins, 2010) which will feature design and set decoration from all genres of movies.

We are thrilled to also count Nick Harvill of Nick Harvill Libraries as a member.

Of course when Nick joined, we could only hope he would bring with him his vast knowledge of design books - something we can never get enough of.  His first contributed article is a fantastic review of the classic "Twentieth Century Decoration" by Stephen Calloway.

This is only the beginning.  There are many exciting new members joining this week and we will keep you posted here!