On August 18, 2007, teams from Australia and New Zealand will compete to build a fully-operational website for a nonprofit organization in 24 hours during Full Code Press.

There are lots of ways to get involved.

So it's been a long road to this long blog post; I've had lots of good discussions about this year's Net2 program with lots of great folks, including my fine friends at CompuMentor. And now I want to share my concerns with the Net2 community and hear what others think about the structure of the N2Y2 agenda.

When we talk of social tools, especially here, there's often the assumtion that these tools are being used in a beneficial way, to collaborate share and engage.

Yet there are circumstances, when, fired with enthusiasm for a shared purpose, one attempts to engage with no response. Some even turn off the ability to add comments,  rendering perhaps a pulpit, more than a social space. I've even seen social efforts being pilloried in these kinds of blogs, with all sorts of defamation as content. I've even encountered bloggers who go overseas where cyber crime laws are more lax to take advantage of the freedom. 

February 14th is the last day to vote as a member of Changemakers' online community in the 8th Changemakers collaborative competition, "Entrepreneuring Peace: Innovations in Managing Group Conflict."  11 finalists were chosen out of 158 organizations from 42 countries.

Changemakers is a project of Ashoka: Innovators for the Public.

The process they use to find and judge the projects allows for transparency and community input along the way: