Looking at the variety and proliferation of GIS-based custom applications, YourMappr, green map, and others, which seem to mostly feature their own datasets displayed within their own platforms, I'm wondering how these datasets can be integrated or layered with each other, and with other GIS-based data like Wikimapia.org data that is entered through other channels.

I'm loving the conference and seeing tons of value for the nonprofit sector and the citizen sector. Nevertheless I'm wondering: why are there a relatively small number of major institutional nonprofits, community foundations, and nonprofit technology savvy folks here? Who do you think would benefit from this event that isn't here? Are there some benefits to the unique set of people who are here? I'm finding the event nicely cooperative and collaborative, with strong connections across projects naturally occuring given the size and scope of NetSquared.

To take advantage of the oppportunities that blogs and socialnetworking offer, many nonprofits have to reach the point where they have broader definitions of constiutents, participants, members, the media, and donors, and a broader definition of participation. I'm not sure what percent of service-providing nonprofits perceive any incentive in increasing their investment in these areas, as the case for return on their investment isn't a clear one.

 What bridging examples are there of organizations that moved from being net2/ socialnetworking/blog/ and wiki ignorant to successfully embracing these and seeing powerful results? Cases of custom webapps and mashups are the ones that come first to my mind.

Seeing the video inderview on Democracy Now that discussed  OhMyNews, GlobalVoices,  and a project working with kids in South America  made  a fundamental new impression on me: this was the first time I'd seen a group of projects from our field presented together in the media rather than as  separate projects ( See the video at: http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/05/31/1330245 ). 

I think this could well be key to our gaining greater media attention, relevance, and traction as a field of people applying technologies for the greater good. This is part of what I've always thought N-TEN could help achieve, and I'm glad the netsquared has helped fostered this kind of media attention. These kinds of stage-sharing interviews and media events amplify the messages of each participant by allowing them to occupy a larger stage. I'm very curious how collaboration affects media voice and power -- are there cases (in subsectors like environmentalism for example) where a group of orgs  has more media power than single projects with their own media initiatives? My gut hunch is that all our projects are served by the successes of our peers. 

Angela Glover Blackwell spoke about new and vital participation that is happening in civic processes.

On participation:

1. what are the terms and boundaries of participation (how is participation managed, how is it open?)
2. Can participants define the extent of their participation? What defines the extent of opportunities for participation?
3. Who participates, who doesn't
4. what is the difference between meaningful and meaningless participation?
5. what policies are in place or proposed for inclusivity and full and representative participation?

I'm enthusiastically looking forward to netsquared to mix it up with you to learn and share and muddle over the gray matter of the evolving web.

I am the dev lead for NPower's TechAtlas for nonprofits, WebJunction's TechAtlas for libraries, TechFinder, and CTCFinder. I'm trying to see how net2 approaches apply to these tools, and what the business & philanthropy cases are for investing in these approaches that can be woven into future strategy.