• closure, don't let things die, acknowledge everything whether you use it or not, like it or not
• transparency
• find your advocate in other communities to be a bridge
• in other words outreach

• global voices edited aggregator
• hao wu filmaker, blogger detained on feb 22, 2006
• rebecca mckinnon co-founder
• put up website to advocate
• 8 emails
• never met him !
• started working with his sister
• who ended up blogging
• now translate blog
• and know more about hao: mba, worked with earthlink, etc
• lesson learned: don't speak, point!
• and get out of the way!
• 2 out 100 global voices bloggers in prison
• there is a thriving African blogosphere, something that Sir Bob Geldof missed

• every citizen's a reporter
• founded february 2000, now have 42000 citizen reporters
• web can be full multimedia news platform
• 70% income from ads
• 20% of content sales to portals
• 10% from readers
• launching ommynews japan, $11 million from SoftBank, will launch in August
• english.ohmynews.com
• pay $20 for main tab stories
• $10 for section stories
• have podcasts
• iht posts links from OmN

• tools perfect for what nptech is doing
• establish media can co-opt but can't control
• we can all participate
• production, access and distribution have all been democratised
• read/write web
• not just blogs
• proxy world for audio, video,
• grassroots media is the norm not the exception
• journalism has been a lecture
• moving to something like a conversation
• listen
• secrets harder to keep
• whether you ask people or not they will do it
• citizen witness with a camera is not new i.e. 1 guy with camera at JFK

Howard

• networks, emergent self organization,

Paul Saffo (real time anthropologists)

• we invent our technology and then ourselves

What's next

• howard: emergence of unpredictable disruptive blogosphere
• katrina peoplefinder site (zack story)
• immigration - LA immigration protestsorganized via myspace
• open source - bengler's new book takes it beyond software
• wikipedia
• omidyar re-inventing philanthropy
• SARS - 150 million SMS in 3 days to the way scientists self organized
• Toyata building lateral networks among suppliers

• participation
• build their own movement
• set their own challenge
• katrina, over 2 billion dollars donated
• immigration rights gathering
• and even American Idol :-)
• making themelves seen and heard
• the convenant with black america
• last 7 years in cpan
• 6 straight hours - "the state of the black union"
• america coming together about race and poverty
• rare time
• combine tech with moral aspirations!
• more tiers
• policy = taking pre-emptive action to avoid a bad outcome
• 50% online was glass half empty not full for people online

• The Social Web
• We don't know what it will look like except that it will be different
• This conference is about imagining that!
• Imagine actions
• Commit to it!
• 7 sectors participating
• 1. Philanthropists
• 2. NGO
• 3. American Non Profit
• 4. Infratech
• 5. Web Services Companies
• 6. "Digerati"
• 7. NPTAP - Non Profit Tech Assistance Providers
• Index cards for: action items, write'em down and stick on bulletin boards;

Hi: I am Roland Tanglao, Chief Blogging Officer :-), of Bryght. We provide the Drupal backend to the NetSquared site. As part of the largest commercial entity associated with Drupal, I can contribute to the discussion on tools, technology and open source for non profits as well as software companies. But mostly, I am at NetSquared to learn from you all and to do a few podcasts, videoblogs and blog posts. Grab me if you want to do a 10 minute or less podcast or videoblog!