The Yahoo! Green Award is back for its third year at the N2Y4 Conference. Yahoo! is committed to empowering our communities to make a positive impact on the environment and is looking for innovative uses of technology that will inspire people to use social technology to help the environment. The most innovative green technology project from the NetSquared Global Project Gallery, reviewed by Yahoo!, will receive a $5,000 Yahoo! Search Marketing award. The winner will be announced at the N2Y4 Conference.

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The Yahoo! Green Award is back for its third year at the N2Y4 Conference.  Yahoo! is committed to empowering our communities to make a positive impact on the environment and is looking for innovative uses of technology that will inspire people to use social technology to help the environment. The most innovative green technology project from the NetSquared Global Project Gallery, reviewed by Yahoo!, will receive a $5,000 Yahoo! Search Marketing award. The winner will be announced at the N2Y4 Conference.

Learn more and participate!

When you try to explain how the Web can be used for social change to a colleague, family member or friend, do they get a glazed and confused look in their eye? Yahoo! for Good has some interesting examples up right now of how their tools can be used for good. Because Yahoo! has been around for a while, and may not sound as mysterious as del.icio.us, RSS or Second Life to your listener, try using some of their examples to start.

• Yahoo! Answers, "Raise awareness for your cause."
Example: Al Gore asked, "What do you think it wil take to reverse the effects of climate change?"

Today this post comes to you courtesy of the email center in the middle of the tradeshow floor here at SXSW. It's Day 3-- and the weather is cooling just a bit before our last day tomorrow. Though "cool" is definitely a relative term, considering I read something about yesterday about SNOW in the Bay Area...

Last night I had the pleasure of meeting another member of the Net2 Community-- web consultant, Alexandra (many of you know her as "Alex") Samuel. We all gathered, in web 2.0 appropriateness, at the Yahoo!, Delicious, Flickr party at the Iron Cactus, an Austin staple on 6th St. Billy, Marshall, Alex and I enjoyed the open vibe and the open air of the 2nd floor patio.