Hi, My name is Vinnie Lauria and I'm one of the Ambassadors for the N2Y4 Mobile Challenge and Conference.  I was a Project Lead at last year's conference on a project to help people make informed decisions when buying green products.  This year, I'm wearing a different hat as an Ambassador to help build community around the event.

Yesterday, we gave a talk at the NetSquared Mashup Challenge Conference, highlighting how non-profits could use online tools to create and engage their community. We outlined how to create the community, and how to get that community to 'work' for the organization's cause.

Part of talk highlighted how non-profits should share their data whenever possible. Everything from using services like slideshare.net and docstoc.com, to posting stats and knowledge on their blog. Of course we drink our own medicine, so here is a copy of our slides:

So we've created a widget for the GreenerOne site that will allow a member to display how many people they've helped make a green decision while shopping for a product.

We mashuped a few technologies to make this happen. The widget is a dynamic image (PNG) generated from a image library to display how many people you've assisted with your reviews.

We're developing a widget for GreenerOne that will allow members to display how many people they've helped to make a 'green' decision during their purchase.

We need the help of a facebook developer.

We're building out the backend to intergrate with GreenerOne product reviews and need somebody who can help us intergrate the widget on facebook. The widget is pretty straight basic, it's just a dynamic PNG generated when somebody loads a page and has info about the GreenerOne's reviews.

Just wanted to introduce myself to the netsquared community - I'm the co-founder of the free forum hosting service, lefora.com. Before this I was part of meetro - the location-aware friend finder. Prior to meetro I was at IBM, where I was helping to shape social software within the enterprise.

I'm originally from nyc, been out here for almost 3 years now, absolutely loving everything the bay area has to offer, from technology and open competition, to remote get-aways just a ferry ride away.

How I'm helping...

I was just talking to Billy about my exereinces trying to vote in the challenge, my feedback is below:

It felt like a puzzle to find the voting at first, this was the process i had to click to vote from the email: