A remote funding developer. They work from home, they take up less support costs and they don’t involve supervisory time - what’s not to love? I worked as a remote funding researcher recently, and while I’m not willing to flat out say it doesn’t work (comments welcome from people doing just fine at this job) I am willing to tell you what to watch out for.

This is my first year not being at NetSquared in person and I'm trying to figure out the best way to follow (and maybe even engage with) the goings-on from here in North Carolina.

I just started using friend feed and I wonder if their "room" function might be helpful here. http://friendfeed.com/rooms/

I also plan to attend the event in SecondLife tomorrow, although I'm not sure what time is best to visit.

Other suggestions?

Transcripts from our remote conference sessions and hallway chats are now online. You can find transcripts on the remote conference page or on the hallway page -- or just follow the links below. 

You can subscribe to RSS feeds of the chat transcripts by pointing to http://feed.gabbly.com/netsquared.org/remote or http://feed.gabbly.com/netsquared.org/hallway That will give you the last 200 messages in the chat room; or if you subscribe to the feed from an aggregator, you'll get ongoing transcripts. (If you're new to RSS, see the RSS resource center on Net2Learn.)

Transcripts from our May 30th remote conference sessions and May 30th hallway chat are now online. You can find transcripts on the remote conference page or on the hallway page -- or just follow the links below. 

You can subscribe to RSS feeds of the chat transcripts by pointing to http://feed.gabbly.com/netsquared.org/remote or http://feed.gabbly.com/netsquared.org/hallway That will give you the last 200 messages in the chat room; or if you subscribe to the feed from an aggregator, you'll get ongoing transcripts. (If you're new to RSS, see the RSS resource center on Net2Learn.)

On Tuesday, May 30th at 4pm PDT Micki Krimmel, the Director of Internet Outreach for Participant Productions, will be speaking about, "Media that Mobilizes: An Inconvenient Truth, ClimateCrisis and More Tales from Participate.net" as part of NetSquared's remote conference.

Even though I'll be working at the face to face Net2 Conference, I'm going to try to sneak off to the Net2 Remote Conference Chat Room to participate in this chat.

Participant Productions is the company behind socially conscious films like Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth, Good Night and Good Luck, Syriana, Fast Food Nation, Murderball and North Country. Not only do they produce movies with meaning, they also host a complementary web site, Participate.net that give users tons of ways to get involved and create positive change around the issues they care about.  You can learn more about Participate.net and see an interview with Micki Krimmel on the Net2 vlog

Next Tuesday and Wednesday, May 30th and 31st, not only will the face to face NetSquared conference be happening, but so will the Online Conference.

You can participate in the Online NetSquared Conference in Three Ways:

1. Participate in the NetSquared chatroom where speakers like Mike Linksvayer of Creative Commons, Scott Heiferman of Meetup.com, Robyn Deupree of Bloglines, Rolf Kleef  of Greenpeace and Micki Krimmel of Participant Productions will be sharing info. and answering questions.
http://www.netsquared.org/remote#chat

2. Chat it up in the Conference Hallway chat room. We're using Gabbly.com for both chats which is super easy and user-friendly.
http://www.netsquared.org/hallway

3. Post a question to be asked at a conference session, or write a blog post to start the conversation online.  Just peruse the conference sessions (link below) and click on a theme and session topic that interests you.  At the bottom of the session description you can add your question or blog post.
http://www.netsquared.org/conference/conference-sessions

Also, we will have folks recording the conference for you on our

blog: http://www.netsquared.org/blog

podcast: http://www.odeo.com/channel/41065/view

and vlog: http://www.netsquared.org/tags/vlog/

so you don't have to miss a moment!

For more information contact net2@techsoup.org

Since I sent out the call yesterday to be a NetSquared Remote Conference Moderator, I have more information about what would be involved.

Check out these links for more info:
http://www.netsquared.org/chat-moderators
http://www.netsquared.org/hallway-moderators

We'll be using a super easy, user-friendly chat program called Gabbly.

If you can volunteer 1-2 hours of your time as a moderater on May 30 & 31st from 9 AM-4 PM PDT, lemme know at bbravo AT techsoup.org