In the spirit of sharing resources and helping folks both connect with one another and take action following the conference, I just wanted to encourage n2y2 attendees (both in-person and remote) to make good on all those good ideas you had during the event. Remember being moved by the vision of Stop Family Violence? Remember being inspired by the Genocide Intervention Network? Remember being blown away by the sheer energy of TakingITGlobal? Well, pledge to do something to help them and others!

Go to www.pledgebank.com, create a pledge to help these projects move forward, and then tell your friends. Let's not lose the momentum of the conference in the midst of flooded inboxes and exhaustive to-do lists!

This is my first N2 blog post...

One of our strengths at HungerMaps is information analysis. What better way then to exemplify one of our strengths than to show you how I decided to be an informed voter.

Daniel Ben-Horin just finished giving the opening to the NetSquared conference.

He articulated this as the key question and statement to shape the next two days:what if hr could be mobilized? -- Imagine the difference we could make!

He gave us a nice definition of the social web (as opposed to the buzzword term 'web2.0'): the social web is 'the adaptation of internet tools for human interaction, communication and activism.' And he went on to underscore the idea that it's this need for interaction and communication that has brought us all here this week. Here here! 

What if bloggers were given a topic related to the net2 conference to write about on their blog? Bloggers could write about this topic during the days of the conference or even during that week.

I would really like to help with participating in this conference virtually somehow. I am not sure if it would be different topics/thems from the conference or not, but I think there are ways we can do something virtually during the actual conference.

Suggestions/Ideas

•  Post schedule/list of topics being discussed at the conference. Describe what the sessions will be about. That way we can post blog entries about our thoughts about these topics. It can either be posted before or after it takes place at the conference.
• I like to read text. Post handouts and presentations. Link to websites that are discussed. Write blog entries to keep us updated with what was discussed.
• Even though I am not big on podcasting or videos, there are others who would like to see those.
• Have one of the live bloggers (or someone else) during the session post an entry on here about what session they are at.
• If the topics are posted ahead of time, we can post blog entries with our thoughts. Have someone check the blog entries on here to share with that session.
• Encourage participants to blog about their experience.
• Post pictures on Flickr.
• Create a Frappr map for participants at conference and others who wish they could be there.
• Create another blog similiar to this conference discussion blog. (where we use a tag)

We could have a podcast station - Set up so that you can easily select among and listen to a set of interesting/powerful podcasts. Have some volunteers collect together the podcasts. Might be as simple as putting a set of bookmarks together. The listener selects a page from the bookmarks, then clicks on a podcast available there to listen.

We could do the same for video 

For the conference, I think we should put together some hands-on workshops. Maybe we could call this "Take some Web2.0 home with you" or "Net2Go".

The goal is that the participants go home with hardware/software/training so that they are already set up to use a new technology. Examples:

* video recording, broadcasting, like what Drazen Pantic did.

* audio recording, broadcasting, hosting, like we're doing for NetTuesday

* linux installations - install linux on top of windows computers, so that they are dually bootable. Allows people to experience linux

It's a generally acknowledged fact that Web2.0/social networking is most readily accepted by young people in their teens and 20's. So, I think it's an interesting question to ask, "What about the rest of us?"

What Web2.0 tools/technologies/techniques work best for non-20somethings?

What Web2.0 tools/technologies/techniques are coming that will work better for non-20somethings?

How should a nonprofit that is using web2.0 do to engage with its non-20something constituents?

I can imagine a panel including

* a youth-oriented nonprofit person, e.g., Ginger Thomson from youthnoise

I'd like to have a session on map mashups. I think it could include

* examples of interesting, powerful maps that have been implemented using the free, open APIs from Google, Yahoo! or others

* discussion/tutorial on how to do it

Who would be a good person/people to have in a session like that?