In the Netherlands an online market place was started for private initiatives in development: The 1% club. They use almost all web 2.0 tools thinkable. I believe in this instance many more 'official organisations' could learn a lot from them with regard to use of interactivity and open initiative.

They look a bit like Kiva, but the difference is that they are not an organisation. They rather match organisations with donors.

Using Blogger to host a weblog and Google Apps to create web pages cannot be done on the same custom domain, as I found out after much troubles.
Solution could be to use Wordpress, or not to use the Google page creator not with the custom domain.
See original post here (NL) and here (UK)

I have been reposting several posts from my weblog here. As my blog is in Dutch, this might have been of limited use for most readers.
Recently I was able to put a dynamic auto-translation link on my weblog. If you click the flag it automatically translates the page from Dutch into English. This works on any individual page of my blog.

You can easily change the language codes to apply the same to other languages.

See it here: http://www.rijneveld.eu/2007/11/read-my-blog-in-english.html (english here)

CIDIN has done a study about private initiatives in development in Ghana and Malawi. Their conclusions are not all that positive about the effectiveness of these much applauded initiatives. See my (Dutch) summary here http://www.rijneveld.eu/2007/11/do-it-yourself-ontwikkelingswerk-onder.h... incl. link to the English report.

I keep my real blog at: www.rijneveld.eu
and have it automatically uploaded at http://wrijneveld.hyves.nl/blog/

the good thing is that hyves allows other blogs to get automatically imported. More social websites should do this and recognize that most people actually keep their real blog at only 1 or 2 places.

I am just reading 'the aid chain' on power in relations between 'donors' and 'partners', and will soon write about it on my weblog.
I am quite challenged by this good book. Others read it too?

www.rijneveld.eu

See my brief summary (in Dutch) of Bottom of the Pyramid of Prahalad: http://www.rijneveld.eu/2007/06/bottom-of-pyramid.html

Read my comments about India here:
http://www.rijneveld.eu/2007/06/de-grootste-democratie.html
http://www.rijneveld.eu/2006/11/rijst.html

See my comments about Second Life in the blogposts below (in Dutch, sorry):
http://www.rijneveld.eu/2007/02/vervolg-second-life.html
http://www.rijneveld.eu/2007/02/second-life-revisited.html
http://www.rijneveld.eu/2007/02/second-life.html

I just signed up with Net2.

Am very enthusiastic about the possibilities of the social web. See my personal weblog where I am also experimenting with some tools: http://www.rijneveld.eu

I am a policy officer at Woord and Daad, esp responsible for evaluation policy, while our (small) department is also starting to set up KM in our growing organisation.

I would be especially interested to find out the possibilities of the social web in the area of monitoring and evaluation.