Hi, Laura Whitehead liveblogging here at the Netsquared conference. Alexandra Samuel from Social Signal is presenting the session. The session will aim to turn hope into reality by looking at how you can invite, encourage and incentivize high-volume and high quality participation.

Alexandra opened the session with some questions to the audience about who participates in online communities, and who has frustrations with online communities.

Laura Whitehead here again, liveblogging from the N2Y3 conference and it's another featured project session. Dana Serleth is moderating.

MoveSmart.org

www.movesmart.org

Justin from MoveSmart delivered a vibrant talk about how MoveSmart aims to foster vibrant and diverse neighborhoods by empowering housing seekers to move to opportunity.

Hi, it's Laura Whitehead here, live blogging on day 2 of the Netsquared conference!  Steve McMahon is presenting a session on Building a Community Network with Plone.

Hi, it's Laura Whitehead here, live-blogging at the N2Y3 conference. This session is about how Drupal can be used to create community with Matthew Saunders. Matthew is the Operations Manager at pingVision, a Drupal Web Development company.

Matthew asked the audience the differences between web 1.0 (flat, static, bulletin boards etc) and web 2.0 (user generated content, interaction, collaboration etc).

It's Laura Whitehead, live-blogging from the N2Y3 Conference. We're in a featured project session where we hear in more detail about some of the innovative projects are here at the conference that are hoping to get your vote!

Moderator: Sharon Burns, MacArthur Foundation

How to 'Use' your Community - Getting the most out of the community supporting your organization - with Vinnie Lauria (http://vinnie.net/) & Kristine Molnar (Kristine is a Community Evangelist at PBwiki http://pbwiki.com/content/team).

Kristine introduced the session with Vinnie, sharing with the audience her experiences of her own workings with an organization and aims that the session will show the free and available tools out there that can help your non-profit.

Introduction to OpenSocial Apps and Containers

Lane LiaBraaten from Google Developer Programs delivered a presentation introducing OpenSocial. What is OpenSocial? It provides a common open set of API's for building social applications across multiple sites.

Laura Whitehead here, liveblogging from the N2Y3 conference. Michael Metz is Senior Director of Web Marketing and Strategy at Cisco Systems.

Michael shared with the N2Y3 participants how Cisco is using Web 2.0 with it's marketing to enable engagement with users, customers and partners.

Hi all!

I'm Laura and I'll be one of the live bloggers at the N2Y3 conference. I've come to California for the Netsquared conference from the UK. I work as a freelance nonprofit technology consultant and website designer; and also manage a charity in Devon. I look forward to meeting you all there, especially those who I've connected with on Twitter and other social networks (I'm @littlelaura on twitter!) as well as meeting and connecting with lots of new faces too.

I'm excited to be joining the conference to see the innovative ways technology can be used to help with social change; and hope to take back and share inspiration and good practice with colleagues and projects back in the UK.

Looking forward to meeting you all next week!