Chat transcripts for May 30th now available
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May 31st, 2006 by Alex
Transcripts from our May 30th remote conference sessions and May 30th hallway chat are now online. You can find transcripts on the remote conference page or on the hallway page -- or just follow the links below.
You can subscribe to RSS feeds of the chat transcripts by pointing to http://feed.gabbly.com/netsquared.org/remote or http://feed.gabbly.com/netsquared.org/hallway That will give you the last 200 messages in the chat room; or if you subscribe to the feed from an aggregator, you'll get ongoing transcripts. (If you're new to RSS, see the RSS resource center on Net2Learn.)
Chat transcripts for May 30th now available
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May 31st, 2006 by Alex
Transcripts from our May 30th remote conference sessions and May 30th hallway chat are now online. You can find transcripts on the remote conference page or on the hallway page -- or just follow the links below.
You can subscribe to RSS feeds of the chat transcripts by pointing to http://feed.gabbly.com/netsquared.org/remote or http://feed.gabbly.com/netsquared.org/hallway That will give you the last 200 messages in the chat room; or if you subscribe to the feed from an aggregator, you'll get ongoing transcripts. (If you're new to RSS, see the RSS resource center on Net2Learn.)
Conference tracking in real time
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May 30th, 2006 by Alex
A number of folks in the conference hallway have asked about options for tracking conference notes in real time.
If you are looking for blog posts from NetSquared, you can find links to all the blog posts about the NetSquared conference here.
And if you want to participate in real-time note sharing via wiki, Erin Denny has set up a pbwiki space here. (The password for the wiki is "net2".) We'll move those notes onto the NetSquared site once the conference wraps.
Conference tracking in real time
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May 30th, 2006 by Alex
A number of folks in the conference hallway have asked about options for tracking conference notes in real time.
If you are looking for blog posts from NetSquared, you can find links to all the blog posts about the NetSquared conference here.
And if you want to participate in real-time note sharing via wiki, Erin Denny has set up a pbwiki space here. (The password for the wiki is "net2".) We'll move those notes onto the NetSquared site once the conference wraps.
Now en route to NetSquared
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May 28th, 2006 by Alex
Rob and Aaron are both heading down to San Jose this week for the NetSquared conference. For the past eight months, we've been working with the CompuMentor/Techsoup team that is behind this event.
The conference aims at pushing nonprofit engagement with the "social web" (aka "web 2.0") to the next level. The web site (which we helped develop) has built an online community around the same agenda, and will now link the online community to the San Jose conference through a two-day remote conference.
I'm holding down the virtual fort from here in Vancouver, but look forward to hearing updates from Rob & Aaron. And if you're going to be at NetSquared yourself, be sure to say hello.
Now en route to NetSquared
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May 28th, 2006 by Alex
Rob and Aaron are both heading down to San Jose this week for the NetSquared conference. For the past eight months, we've been working with the CompuMentor/Techsoup team that is behind this event.
The conference aims at pushing nonprofit engagement with the "social web" (aka "web 2.0") to the next level. The web site (which we helped develop) has built an online community around the same agenda, and will now link the online community to the San Jose conference through a two-day remote conference.
I'm holding down the virtual fort from here in Vancouver, but look forward to hearing updates from Rob & Aaron. And if you're going to be at NetSquared yourself, be sure to say hello.
Tidying tags (and cars?)
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May 28th, 2006 by Alex
When a story titled Confession: I’m a car slob popped up in the RSS feed I use to track who’s linking to me, I figured that some recent passenger had decided to out me to the world. Turns out that Beth Kanter has identified the correlation between untidy cars and untidy tags: like me, she struggles with both.
As it happens, I recently undertook a reasonably successful tag clean-up after spending two years staring at a collection of seriously messed-up del.icio.us tags. I made the colossal mistake of comma-separating my tags when I first imported into del.icio.us, and ever since my tag cloud has included dozens of tags like “e-democracy,” alongside the correct “e-democracy”. I concluded that using the built-in del.icio.us tool for re-tagging was simply too painful, since it required me to go through each tag one at at time, refreshing the tag edit interface each time.
After looking around for options I finally hit upon cocoalicious, a del.icio.us client for the Mac. I’ve never really gotten into using it as a daily bookmarking tool because I prefer to interact with del.icio.us from within my browser (Firefox). But cocoalicious turns out to be a phenomenal solution for tidying up tags, once you have it set up to sync with your del.icio.us account (easy to do: just enter your del.icio.us account info). Once cocoalicious has downloaded your bookmarks from del.icio.us, a list of all your tags appear in the left-hand pane of its main window. Double-click on a tag to edit it, just the way you would edit a file name on your Mac’s desktop. If your new-and-improved tag happens to be the same as an existing tag, cocoalicious converges them. It took me all of half an hour to fix my disastrous tag collection once I hit upon this methodology.
Another tool that helped me with tag clean-up is del.icio.us’ own tool for bundling related tags. You can access this on del.icio.us under settings — experimental — tag bundles (or by going to the URL del.icio.us/settings/yourusername/bundle
The tag bundling interface is very easy and quick to use and makes it much easier to see how your tag cloud adds up. My one complaint is that del.icio.us doesn’t actually let you access the bookmarks collected in any one bundle: to see any of the bookmarks inside my “e-democracy” bundle I still have to click on one of the individual tags it contains (like e-politics or e-research).
Beth also recommends radically pruning one’s Bloglines subscriptions as another solution to tag clutter. My own approach (which feels like a cheat) was to set up a personalized Google homepage with a much much much smaller collection of RSS subscriptions. My Google homepage contains the essential feeds that I want to keep on top of throughout the day:
- top news from BC, Canada and the world, from several sources
- the del.icio.us “popular” tag (a nice window on what’s hot online)
- the del.icio.us tag “for:awsamuel” so I can find out what other people want me to see (see #11 in this blog post for an explanation of the “for:” tag)
- Technorati’s feed for the nptech (nonprofit technology) tag
- del.icio.us’ feed for the nptech (nonprofit technology) tag
- the NetSquared blog feed
- a “ego feed” via PubSub that sends me any blog post or article that includes my name or the term “Social Signal”
Before I set up my personalized Google homepage I was so overwhelmed by the mess of unread feeds on Bloglines that I began to dread visiting. Now I’m able to keep on top of the online news and items I really need to see — since my personalized Google homepage is my browser’s default page, it loads many times a day — and still use Bloglines when I want to find something to blog about, or have some time to catch up on a wider range of online stories.
As for tidying the car….well, unless Google radically expands its mandate, we’ll have to work harder at sticking to our “clean it out during every fill-up” resolution. But at the rate Google is expanding its empire, I’d put more hope in a Google solution than in us doing a monthly clean-out.
May 30 & 31: NetSquared’s online conference with nonprofit leaders
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May 26th, 2006 by Alex
as posted on Corante's Civic Minded blog
Where can you find inspiration for online advocacy, guidance for online faclitation, and gossip about online politics? On Tuesday May 30th and Wednesday May 31st, NetSquared is hosting a remote conference featuring live chats and Q&A sessions with leaders from across the nonprofit web.
The remote conference is happening at the same time as a two-day confab in San Jose. After eight months of work on the NetSquared project, I'm heartbroken that I won't be there in person (something about not travelling in the ninth month of pregnancy, mutter mutter grumble) -- and absolutely determined that the online event will be so fabulous that when my colleagues return from San Jose, they're going to be jealous that I was the one who got to hang out in the chat room.
And what better way to get over that morning-after-the-Memorial-Day-before feeling than to spend the day chatting with leaders in nonprofit technology -- leaders like:
- Judith Feder on "Health care and web 2.0 patient communities"
- Rolf Kleef of Greenpeace
- Micki Krimmel of Participant Productions on "Media that Mobilizes: An Inconvenient Truth, ClimateCrisis and more tales from Participate.net"
- Beth Kanter on "Tagging in the Nonprofit World"
- Robyn Deupree of Bloglines Lisa Stone of BlogHer
- Alexandra Samuel of Social Signal on "Building Online Community: Behind the Scenes at NetSquared"
- Mike Linksvayer of Creative Commons on "Leveraging Technology for Free Culture and Your Nonprofit's Mission"
- Enoch Choi of Palo Alto Medical Foundation on "Tech Tools in Medicine: Personal Health Records, Mobile Devices, Blogging,Podcasting, Health Search & Tagging @ Google Co-op"
- Boris Mann from Bryght on "Open Source and your non-profit"
- Scott Heiferman from Meetup.com
- Nancy White of Full Circle on "Online Facilitation Open Discussion"
- Edward Vielmetti from the University of Michigan School of Information on "Superpatron: viewing libraries from a patron's point of view"
May 30 & 31: NetSquared’s online conference with nonprofit leaders
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May 26th, 2006 by Alex
as posted on Corante's Civic Minded blog
Where can you find inspiration for online advocacy, guidance for online faclitation, and gossip about online politics? On Tuesday May 30th and Wednesday May 31st, NetSquared is hosting a remote conference featuring live chats and Q&A sessions with leaders from across the nonprofit web.
The remote conference is happening at the same time as a two-day confab in San Jose. After eight months of work on the NetSquared project, I'm heartbroken that I won't be there in person (something about not travelling in the ninth month of pregnancy, mutter mutter grumble) -- and absolutely determined that the online event will be so fabulous that when my colleagues return from San Jose, they're going to be jealous that I was the one who got to hang out in the chat room.
And what better way to get over that morning-after-the-Memorial-Day-before feeling than to spend the day chatting with leaders in nonprofit technology -- leaders like:
- Judith Feder on "Health care and web 2.0 patient communities"
- Rolf Kleef of Greenpeace
- Micki Krimmel of Participant Productions on "Media that Mobilizes: An Inconvenient Truth, ClimateCrisis and more tales from Participate.net"
- Beth Kanter on "Tagging in the Nonprofit World"
- Robyn Deupree of Bloglines Lisa Stone of BlogHer
- Alexandra Samuel of Social Signal on "Building Online Community: Behind the Scenes at NetSquared"
- Mike Linksvayer of Creative Commons on "Leveraging Technology for Free Culture and Your Nonprofit's Mission"
- Enoch Choi of Palo Alto Medical Foundation on "Tech Tools in Medicine: Personal Health Records, Mobile Devices, Blogging,Podcasting, Health Search & Tagging @ Google Co-op"
- Boris Mann from Bryght on "Open Source and your non-profit"
- Scott Heiferman from Meetup.com
- Nancy White of Full Circle on "Online Facilitation Open Discussion"
- Edward Vielmetti from the University of Michigan School of Information on "Superpatron: viewing libraries from a patron's point of view"
Just because it’s a remote conference doesn’t mean you don’t get a badge
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May 26th, 2006 by Alex
Just because it’s a remote conference doesn’t mean you don’t get a badge
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May 26th, 2006 by Alex
Planning on joining us for the remote conference? Let the world know (and give the conference some link love) by posting this badge on your blog or web site. Just copy and paste the following HTML code wherever you'd like it to appear:
<a href="http://www.netsquared.org/remote"><img alt="Find me at the Net2 Remote Conference" title="Find me at the Net2 Remote Conference" src="http://tinyurl.com/mkav3"/></a>
May 30 & 31: NetSquared’s online conference with nonprofit leaders
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May 26th, 2006 by Alex
as posted on Corante’s Civic Minded blog:
Where can you find inspiration for online advocacy, guidance for online faclitation, and gossip about online politics? On Tuesday May 30th and Wednesday May 31st, NetSquared is hosting a remote conference featuring live chats and Q&A sessions with leaders from across the nonprofit web.
The remote conference is happening at the same time as a two-day confab in San Jose. After eight months of work on the NetSquared project, I’m heartbroken that I won’t be there in person (something about not travelling in the ninth month of pregnancy, mutter mutter grumble) — and absolutely determined that the online event will be so fabulous that when my colleagues return from San Jose, they’re going to be jealous that I was the one who got to hang out in the chat room.
And what better way to get over that morning-after-the-Memorial-Day-before feeling than to spend the day chatting with leaders in nonprofit technology — leaders like:
- Judith Feder on “Health care and web 2.0 patient communities”
- Rolf Kleef of Greenpeace
- Micki Krimmel of Participant Productions on “Media that Mobilizes: An Inconvenient Truth, ClimateCrisis and more tales from Participate.net”
- Beth Kanter on “Tagging in the Nonprofit World”
- Robyn Deupree of Bloglines Lisa Stone of BlogHer
- Alexandra Samuel of Social Signal on “Building Online Community: Behind the Scenes at NetSquared”
- Mike Linksvayer of Creative Commons on “Leveraging Technology for Free Culture and Your Nonprofit’s Mission”
- Enoch Choi of Palo Alto Medical Foundation on “Tech Tools in Medicine: Personal Health Records, Mobile Devices, Blogging,Podcasting, Health Search & Tagging @ Google Co-op”
- Boris Mann from Bryght on “Open Source and your non-profit”
- Scott Heiferman from Meetup.com
- Nancy White of Full Circle on “Online Facilitation Open Discussion”
- Edward Vielmetti from the University of Michigan School of Information on “Superpatron: viewing libraries from a patron’s point of view”
The remote conference is open to anyone with an Internet connection. And feel free to drop by the conference hallway for even more remote conference-y goodness.