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.
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"
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.
Building online community: Behind the scenes at NetSquared
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May 20th, 2006 by Alex
As part of the NetSquared remote conference, I'm going to be hosting an online chat conversation on "Building online community: Behind the scenes at NetSquared". Since Social Signal helped to develop the strategy for the NetSquared site, and undertook the Drupal set-up and configuration work on both NetSquared and Net2Learn, we periodically get questions from people who want to know why we set up a certain feature in a particular way, or how we were able to get a page to work a certain way in Drupal. This session is a chance to answer some of those questions in a more structured setting.
Building online community: Behind the scenes at NetSquared
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May 20th, 2006 by Alex
As part of the NetSquared remote conference, I'm going to be hosting an online chat conversation on "Building online community: Behind the scenes at NetSquared". Since Social Signal helped to develop the strategy for the NetSquared site, and undertook the Drupal set-up and configuration work on both NetSquared and Net2Learn, we periodically get questions from people who want to know why we set up a certain feature in a particular way, or how we were able to get a page to work a certain way in Drupal. This session is a chance to answer some of those questions in a more structured setting.
Online Community session at NetSquared North
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February 10th, 2006 by Alex
Our first session at NetSquared North today covers online community engagement. We’ve started by sharing stories about online community projects we’re working on now, including:
Your Kamloops (Arjun Singh)
- site, blog, and mailing list
- largely one-way
- tools: typepad (blogging software), topica (email list tool)M/li>
- some multimedia (ourmedia.org)
Citzen Shift (Catrina)
- deals with broad range of issues
- new issue every three weeks
- each new issue involves engaging a new community and getting contributions from its members, including feedback on our forums
Aggregation as an endless loop
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October 10th, 2005 by Alex
Here’s a challenge for wiser RSS-wranglers than I: as aggregation becomes a more widely used tool for populating web sites, how do we prevent RSS feeds from being cluttered with multiple identical posts?
I was just looking at the Technorati tag page for net2, where a couple of my Net2-related posts have each appeared twice. That’s because my blog is being aggregated in full at Web of Blogs, an aggregation set up for the Web of Change conference. Once I get my Social Signal aggregator up and running, that may provide another duplicate of many of my blog posts.
It would be great if Technorati, Feedster & other searches could recognize true duplicate posts, and only show them once — or if there were a way to strip duplicate posts out of a feed when aggregating onto another site (for example, NetSquared’s aggregator page.)
Community goes corporate
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October 7th, 2005 by Alex
Boyd Neil of Hill & Knowlton has written a very kind and thought-provoking post in response to the launch of Social Signal. Boyd’s observation is that corporate communicators have a lot to learn from social movements and community activists about how to use the Internet as a tool for bottom-up community engagement and marketing campaigns.
It’s an interesting twist because I’m used to coporate communications being held up as a model and example for nonprofit people — particularly online, since corporate web sites often seem to be a few steps ahead of their nonprofit counterparts (at least aesthetically). While I’ve grown increasingly convinced of the potential of decentralized online collaboration as an engine of social change, it hadn’t occurred to me that part of its impact lies in shifting the balance of power between the private and nonprofit worlds.
For all sorts of historical, cultural, and perhaps even structural reasons, civil society organizations may be just that much ahead of private (and I suspect also government) organizations in their ability to adopt, adapt and exploit participatory, collaborative models. If that’s the model that is most effective — and most available — in the era of online communications, then the shift towards online community may actually put community organizations in a newly powerful position.
Of course the other possible — and equally hopeful — scenario is that private sector organizations will learn to adopt and adapt participatory models for their own benefit. I say, bring it on! All my experience and observation of community collaboration suggests that the structures and processes of collaborative work and decision-making have a transformative impact on organizational culture and mission. Democratizing corporations — by giving employees, customers and the broader community a greater role and stake in their decisions — could have an even larger social impact than democratizing government and civil society groups.
And there are more opportunities than ever for corporations to immerse themselves in the experiences and innovations of web-savvy, collaboration-driven community organizations. Dare I suggest that participating in Net2 could be a great place to start?