Hi all, just a quick note to say that the remote conference transcripts are now up. You can view them at http://www.netsquared.org/projects/health and http://www.netsquared.org/projects/environment.

Many thanks to Enoch Choi of the Palo Alto Medical Foundation and Dawn Danby of WorldChanging for the excellent conversations. Thanks also to Joe Solomon of stuckinbed.org and Lars Hasselblad Torres for moderating the conversations. You are stars.

Transcripts from our remote conference sessions and hallway chats 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.)

Daniel Ben-Horin just finished giving the opening to the NetSquared conference.

He articulated this as the key question and statement to shape the next two days:what if hr could be mobilized? -- Imagine the difference we could make!

He gave us a nice definition of the social web (as opposed to the buzzword term 'web2.0'): the social web is 'the adaptation of internet tools for human interaction, communication and activism.' And he went on to underscore the idea that it's this need for interaction and communication that has brought us all here this week. Here here! 

Check out the new Theme of the Week over on Net2Learn: Wikis for nonprofits. This resource center provides a crash course in wiki use for nonprofits, including an explanation of wikis, their history, and some great wiki tools, as well as great tips for using wikis strategically to help your nonprofit. 

And whether you're a wiki newbie or a seasoned wiki-warrior, we hope you'll share the insights and resources that have helped you along the way. Join the wikis for nonprofits resource center and you'll be able to add your ideas to our feature on getting started with wikis; or add your favorite resources to our collection of weblinks. And even if you haven't joined the resource center team, you'll be able to add your comments to almost all the content that's there, to help us keep the conversation going.

Check out the new Theme of the Week over on Net2Learn: Tagging and Social Bookmarking for nonprofits. This resource center provides a crash course in tagging and bookmarking for nonprofits, including an explanation of tagging and bookmarking tools (like del.icio.us & flickr) as well as great tips for using tagging and bookmarks to help your nonprofit. 

And whether you're a newbie or an experienced tagging guru with hundreds of del.icio.us bookmarks to your credit, we hope you'll share the insights and resources that have helped you along the way. Join the tagging & bookmarking for nonprofits resource center and you'll be able to add your ideas to our feature on getting started with tagging and bookmarking; or add your favorite resources to our collection of weblinks. And even if you haven't joined the resource center team, you'll be able to add your comments to our forum discussions on how to use tags to collaborate with other nonprofit groups.

Check out the new Theme of the Week over on Net2Learn: Podcasting for nonprofits & ngos. This resource center provides a crash course in podcasting for nonprofits, including an explanation of podcasting technology and tools as well as great tips for using podcasts to help your nonprofit. If you've been thinking about using podcasting your nonprofit, the podcasting for Nonprofits resource center can walk you through the process. If you're already a podcaster, the case studies and links can offer you further inspiration.

Check out the new Theme of the Week over on Net2Learn: RSS for Nonprofits. This resource center provides a crash course in RSS for nonprofits, including an explanation of RSS technology and tools as well as great tips for using RSS aggregation to help your nonprofit. If you've been thinking about using RSS in your nonprofit, the RSS for Nonprofits resource center can walk you through the process. If you're already using RSS, the case studies and links can offer you further inspiration.

And whether you're an RSS newbie or an experienced RSS user, we hope you'll share the insights and resources that have helped you along the way. Join the RSS for nonprofits resource center and you'll be able to add your ideas to our feature on Getting started with RSS; or add your favorite resources to our collection of weblinks. And even if you haven't joined the resource center team, you'll be able to add your comments to our forum discussion on How can I use RSS in my nonprofit?.

Here's my notes from the afternoon session of NetSquared North, part of the Northern Voice conference.

Khaliya Hamlin (Identitly woman) led a conversation about the key issues facing nonprofit groups and some ideas on how to solve them. We posed the question "how do you want to use technology to achieve your nonprofit's goals?"

The group said that they were most interested in using technology to:

• increase visiblity
• engage people
• recruit & involve volunteers
• internal collaboration
• meta-networking

We spent a 5-15 minute session digging in to each of these topics. Here's our notes:

Increasing visiblity

Strategies: