We've been taking a break. Sure, there have been postings. And we've been hustling on the inside to make sure that the wrap ups -- the things that need to immediately follow from the conference -- get done. But we've been taking a break from the late nights and weekends. Billy's been in Belize. Daniel is winging his way to Costa Rica. Mark spent time on the east coast. I haven't tripped off anywhere but I've been catching the late ferry to work and the early ferry home. Gina's pushing the Net Tuesdays and, like me, dreaming of a vacation a little later in the year.

But enough's enough. Time to get back to it. Some of what I'm about to write is news; some isn't. In no particular order, here's what I'm thinking:

• We have too much stuff on this site. Too much. We treated features like spaghetti we were throwing at the wall. We wanted to see what would stick and, as it stands, we have a website covered with spaghetti. We need to figure out what two, three or four things are the most meaningful here and then put resources behind 'em. We need to make them work better, connect the dots between those and the other things we are doing and make as available and easy as possible.
• The site needs better findability. Really, that connects to the first point but it's important. People kept pointing it out to us. I spent a humiliating 5 minutes on this site trying to find the location of the conference the evening before the conference. We need to fix that. So, I was too in love with the whole site map at the bottom thing. Something needs to get better.
• Make it dead easy to understand what you're supposed to do here. It's not enough to turn on the tools and say "Interact! Partcipate! Good things will happen!" We've got to make it clear and repeatrepeatrepeatrepeat what people can do here so that it's easy, so that individuals get the value, so that (and this one I think is a biggie) so that it's portable.
• Fix backend stuff. These things -- hooking up the registration from Net2Learn to the main NetSquared site, upgrading the version of Drupal we're using -- will be interspered with the bullets above but it's important and I want to call it out.
• More appetizers. Seth's right. It's the human face-to-face time. We want to put some more resources behind Net Tuesdays and try and get more conversations going. But those connections, ultimately, is what Net2 is about.
• Follow up. Maybe this is because of the spaghetti theory of program design but I don't think we've done a good job of following up. We need to get better. Ping people about the next actions to find out how it's going. Connect the interviews to the other pieces of content on the site. See what on the wishlist we can make real.
• Think about a networked model of sponsorship. I'm not even sure what I mean there. But it seems like we're going after a networked series of events, what model of sponosorship fits with that? Does it include sharing the sponsorship dollars? If so, how?
• Think about the next conference. After all, we don't want that whole registration thing to happen again. And we want to get participatory sooner. Too much early sitting this time around.

All this is Net3. And I think it's going to involve change. I know it's going to involve change. I think, in Net2, we've done an okay job of sketching an outline. Actually, we've put up the dots that, we believe if connected, will form a picture. We haven't connected all the dots yet. That's what Net3 is. It's connecting the dots.