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Nice example of how to organize really useful collaboration site.
Even no matter does this one working or not.

Could the next generation of online communications strengthen civil society by better connecting people to others with whom they share affinities, so they can more effectively exchange information and self-organize? Could such a system help to revitalize democracy in the 21st century? When networked personal computing was first developed, engineers concentrated on extending creativity among individuals and enhancing collaboration between a few. They did not much consider what social interaction among millions of Internet users would actually entail. It was thought that the Net's technical architecture need not address the issues of "personal identity" and "trust," since those matters tended to take care of themselves.\n\nThis paper proposes the creation of an Augmented Social Network (ASN) that would build identity and trust into the architecture of the Internet, in the public interest, in order to facilitate introductions between people who share affinities or complementary capabilities across social networks. The ASN has three main objectives: 1) To create an Internet-wide system that enables more efficient and effective knowledge sharing between people across institutional, geographic, and social boundaries. 2) To establish a form of persistent online identity that supports the public commons and the values of civil society. 3) To enhance the ability of citizens to form relationships and self-organize around shared interests in communities of practice in order to better engage in the process of democratic governance. In effect, the ASN proposes a form of "online citizenship" for the Information Age.

"If someone asks you who you are, how do you identify yourself? You may tell them your name, job, nationality, race or religion. You probably realize that this answer does not encompass who you truly are. As we classify ourselves in various categories, we establish divisions between ourselves and others. Often it requires a catalyzing event, such as a natural disaster, for people to realize that we cannot survive if we don't work together.
__ Today, due to global warming and other environmental issues, Earth faces many such disasters. Ilchi Lee, founder of the Earth Citizen Movement, first issued a call to action in 2001 in his book Healing Society. He wrote that once 100 million people realize they are Earth citizens and take action together, they will change the world. Enlightenment, Lee states, is not just knowledge. It is also action. Without action, he claims, knowledge is useless.
__ The purpose of Lee's Earth Citizen Movement is to get people to declare themselves citizens of Earth. Rather than identifying with their nationality, race, or religion, they accept that they are human first, living together on Earth. The members believe human beings are all connected, and that realizing our common values will be the first step in recovering our humanity.
__ The Earth Citizen Movement formally began in April 2009 and is growing all over the world. It has members in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, Sweden, Russia, Korea and Japan. So far, over 100,000 people have joined. The movement's goal is reach to 100 million people.
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Recently, the BBC announced it would be creating an "open source" documentary series on the creation and impact of the World Wide Web, and I'm more than a little bit excited to see how it all turns out.

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A handful of social networking sites are fighting to fill the gap left by Facebook's success, by targeting students like you...

Por si alguien aún no ha oído hablar de él, Howard Rheingold es un importante escritor y crítico sobre los aspectos económicos y socioculturales de

SocialStream is not yet a reality, but it looks quite interesting.

I hope SocialStream comes to fruition one day. This site from CMU looks like quite an interesting proposal. -- Rick Cogley

From the site: "Directed to help improve the online community orkut, the project's scope was not to simply redesign the interface. Our team considered how online social networking could bring greater value to users, especially for ages above twenty. After initial brainstorming and research, we chose to focus on the effects of a new model for online social networking: a unified social network that, as a service, provides social data to many other applications. Our user research examined needs related to online as well as offline social networking and considered how they related to a unified social network service model. Through this user research we identified a set of archetypes that represent common behavior patterns that existed across multiple study participants and also formulated a summarized list of their high level needs. "

Ping.fm is an interesting social network status updater service. Gotta be careful not to inundate people with your statuses (statii?). It's just spam if you do that. I'm using it selectively to update just a couple services with a specific type of info. THat might be helpful. --Rick Cogley

Interesting social network status updater service. Gotta be careful not to inundate people with your statuses (statii?). I am using it to update Linked.in and Plaxo statuses, and send work-related updates to my ping.fm special posting email address. -- Rick Cogley

From the site: "We post your messages wherever you want!

That's right, we support over 30 social networking sites and we're adding more regularly.

Between our straight forward posting methods and advanced custom triggers, we make it easy for you to post your messages exactly where you want them to go."

"…In 2008 … I set out to produce a social media classroom out of free and open source software, and free web services. …"

"… they were overwhelmed. …"

"…don't try to keep up with the technologies; keep up with the literacy that the technologies make possible. … Better tools do not by themselves make for better pedagogy. …"

Social Media Classroom/Co-laboratory Screencast:
An eight minute description and preview

Referred from http://grou.ps/emresokullu.blog/?p=395 "a nice picture illustrating which social network dominates which country"…

A short indication for how nonprofit managers can identify social technologies most likely to empower their organizations, e.g,. by selecting true social movements from trends.