A moment of personal exoterica before we launch into the N2Y2 events in San Jose; tonight I'm packing and now all of you are privy to my sundries:

* Laptop w/bag (liveblogging from San Jose)
* Camera (to remember what you beautiful people look like)
* Shoes (never forget the good shoes for dancing)
* Clothes (magenta and red, a fiery feeling)
* Books (any suggestions?)
* AMO Game (always connecting the dots)
* Chocolate (the raw cacao powder this time)
* Hand Cream (see Beth Kanter's tips for liveblogging post)
* I heard I love you! card (ask Jean Russell for more info)
* Virtually Delicious (our Second Life design team cards)
* Saving Grace (a gift for a friend)
* Go Green Guide (playa planning 101)
* Delight (for manifesting good cheer)

Happy New Year!

I'm guessing that lots of nonprofits and NGO's have made a New Year's resolution to incorporate the social web into their work, but they don't know where to begin.

Many of you have areas of expertise about how to use the social web for social change that would be of great benefit to them.

Would you be willing to give a half hour phone consult (the consultee pays for the call) to a nonprofit or NGO about your area of Net2 expertise (i.e. aggregation, blogging, content management, e-mail, podcasting, RSS, social networking, wikis, cell phones/SMS, social bookmarking, tagging, vlogging, widgets, fundraising with the social web, marketing with the social web, advocacy with the social web, community building with the social web, etc.)?

Hey Net2 Conference goers!

I'm sure some of you are asking yourself, I wonder if I could catch a ride to/from the Net2 Conference with someone, or I'd love to split the cost of a hotel room.  So . . . in the interest of time, we'd like to use the comments section of this blog post to help you to make connections.

Here are a couple suggestions to make the process go smoothly:

1. Please be sure you are registered and logged in when you post your comment, and that your user profile has an email address, so that people can email you directly.

2. If you want to respond to someone directly, just click on their name at the bottom of their comment where is says, "submitted by their name."  It will take you to their user profile.  Click on the tab that says, "contact" to email them.

You can also join our Frappr map to find fellow attendees near you.

So, here's how it happened.  Our own Jody Mahoney (that's her smiling face right there) emailed Doug Jacquier of CISA to ask him our four questions.  Doug blogged his thoughts which promted a nice conversation in the comments and also started David Wallace at lifekludger to contribute his ideas.  David writes: "...it is about making the platform more accessible to individuals and that thereby makes it more equitable. It is that change that makes the development of ‘community’ more possible." Mike Seyfang at learndogpup also has some thoughts. Mike says what's really new is that "there are significant changes in what people can PUBLISH and how they can SUBSCRIBE to pretty much anything."

A while back I wrote about Remember the Milk and Ta-da lists and lamented the fact that there wasn't an easy way to get the content onto a website.  Of course, because they don't offer it, it doesn't mean that it can't be done.

Stowe Boyd points out  that you both products produce RSS feeds.  Those feeds can be run through a service, like FeedDigest. The result?  A bit of javascript that you can place onto your website.  Why is that nice?  It means you can track a list and use the functionality of the services (easy to add items, sharing and -- in the case of Remember the Milk -- an ability to add a due date and other levels of information to the item and the list) but have that list appear on a website.  An easy way to show what you are working on in your organization.  It seems like this could be especially nice when working on a project with volunteers.