Today I googled "fear of user generated content" after a conversation with a co-worker about creating an artist registry online with social networking features. This co-worker is funded by the government and therefore has a fear deep in her heart of losing funding because of one person who decides to post something inappropriate. Can anybody suggest some examples of government funded organizations sanctioning user generated content? Can anybody help me sooth her troubled mind?

The Oxfam International team is reporting direct from the United Nations Climate Change Conference (1 – 12 Dec), in Poland.

Why do we blog at events like this? Well there are many reasons but for us the big ones are:

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Recently, a couple of events allowed me to look again at how groups of people "do things together online".

I've had a chance to meet up a few times in a short period with Aldo de Moor, and that helped us reflect on where things have come since we first drafted the contours of our "social context model", nearly ten years ago now.

Add a few potential projects in the pipeline that deal with global networks of people who should produce something together. And the opportunity to dive a bit deeper into the NABUUR concept, to see how it is still pretty unique.

Aldo and I quickly concluded that although a lot is happening, and happening fast, there actually has been little progress in what we see as the hardest part of (online) collaboration: supporting work flows. Sure enough, people find ways to use the techno-centric tools that emerge, and services like Basecamp are making inroads into this. But most platforms still have some way to go.

Oh, climate change.  Oh, the UN. A giant concept and a giant organisation, both with limited access points for the public, guarenteed to make you feel small, disempowered and unheard.  Well, it's that time of year again: it's the UN Climate Change Conference, and this year it's happening in Poland! 

Submissions are still coming in to the USAID Project Gallery, and the deadline to submit is this Friday, December 5, so get your idea in now!

Monday morning, voting begins and you'll be able to help pick the top 15 projects to move on in the USAID Development 2.0 Challenge.

A day or two ago I wrote about social networking and the Development 2.0 challenge.  Actually, I had something bigger on my mind, but I needed to try a small bite first. The positive responses suggest that there's a hunger out there for something bigger.  Well, maybe this could fly with enough help...   

Whenever a new administration comes to Washington, a cottage industry springs up to produce briefing documents, sometimes called white papers, to advise the government on priorities.

Hi, I am a new member to this list. Yesterday, I posted an article in my blog on the relationship of social and technological change. The article reflects on the fact that in recent years, the speed of technological change has by far exceeded the speed of social change. In human history, great technology breakthroughs such as the printing press, did go hand in hand with social change (e.g. the appearance of protestant churches, and the discoveries of Columbus). The latest technology changes such as the Internet in general and the social web in particular have hit an unprepared world. Those who use these new technologies wisely, gain a competitive advantage in whatever their mission is.

A couple of weeks ago, appreciative of her awesomeness and mentorship (Millennials love mentors), Avi Kaplan wrote a note of appreciation about Stacey Monk:

I want to introduce and thank Stacey Monk who has been a real inspiration and mentor to me.

You’d think with the election over, we would shut up about Obama’s internet strategy - but not so much. Because it turns out that an oft-quoted statistic about his campaign isn’t quite right. See, I went around telling everyone that small donors formed the bulk of his campaign contributions. I bragged about how the internet had made it possible to mobilize huge numbers of regular folk, who gave small amounts of their hard earned cash until, together, they put Obama in the White House! Power to the people, baby!

A nice story, but according to a study of his campaign finances, not exactly true.