I just finished helping out with the Australian 'Connecting Up 2006' conference which was keynoted by your very own Daniel Ben-Horin. Meeting Daniel was one of the hilights for me, as I have summarised in THIS blog post.

I learnt a lot about event podcasting and generating/collecting 'web2.0' event buzz.

Two suggestions for your conference next week:
1. Publish one or two keynote podcasts on the day they occur.
(I managed six in two days - including Daniel's keynote)
2. Build a yahoo pipe like THIS one so 'non-believers' have a single web page from which to observe the messy, organic and profound RSS goodness.

I am trying to explain how this most excellent community works to a client and I gotta say it is hard to articulate! It is pretty clear that we are all here because we want to remix the web for social change, but I'm having trouble locating a single source of community guidelines!

UPDATE:
Thanks to the help offered in the comments I have what I am looking for:
http://www.netsquared.org/about/how-to-be-netsquared
Summary:
Live a spam-free lifestyle.
Think outside the [pop-up] box
Get neighborly. You break it, you buy it. Just kidding!
Love a troll.
Our playground is your playground.

Nice!

Have I missed something?
(The best single page I can find is:
http://www.netsquared.org/share )

Any pointers / tips much appreciated.

Fang - Mike Seyfang

Dear Net2 crew (especially whoever looks after your podcast these days), Next week I will be doing a presentation on podcasting for NonProfits for Microsoft's Unlimited Potential Community conference in Sydney, Australia.  While rehearsing my demonstration, I noticed that when searching for net2 or netsquared in the iTunes music store your old (odeo) podcast is found.  This is a shame because it would be great for members from my audience to subscribe to your new (libsyn) podcast.  Would really appreciate it if somebody could submit the new podcast to Apple for inclusion (and remove the old one).

I just left a comment on the podcast shownotes for the 'Citizen Journalism' talk that I wish to remix and republish to help spread the word. 

http://netsquared.libsyn.org/index.php?post_id=150783

I am very surprised to find that there isnt an open (e.g. CC:BY) license so that I can do this without having to ask for (and somehow magically track) permission.  For more info on which Creative Commons terms are most open, check these conversations that Beth Kanter and I are involved in:

http://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/2006/11/mike_remixes_my.html

Hey Team - I know its been a big hassle to get audio from the conference out but something seems to be broken with the Odeo channel you are using:

In iTunes I can see two episodes about 'Open Source Computing for People' but cannot 'get' the .mp3.

So I went to odeo, found your 'channel', found those episodes and got a wierd error page:

Jose the director of the new National Clandestine Service says you do not have permission to view this page.

Hey NetSquarders (and friends).

Hope your conference is going well - wish I was there etc. etc.

It is a lovely sunrise here in Adelaide, South Australia - as you enjoy your afternoon tea break on day 1 of the conference.  The purpose of this post is to give you all some feedback on how it feels 'attending' your conference remotely.  

Hilites:

My 'flickrfox' images of photos tagged 'net2' are clearly picking up conference action, including a really interesting shot 'greg proves he is awake' - a man looking at a clock.

Some of the brief / rough liveblog notes from sessions (e.g. Marnie's)

The PodCast feed for the Connecting Up 2006 Conference - Hyatt Regency Adelaide, South Australia, May 1-2 2006 - is up and running.

To subscribe to conference podcasts, tune your 'PodCatcher' software to:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/cu06podcast

You can expect to hear a couple of pre-conference interviews with CISA CEO Doug Jacquier, at least two sessions from the conference (maybe more if there is enough demand), and some post-conference discussion.  Monday morning's session 'Connecting and Speaking to Communities using WeBLOGS and PodCasts' by David Wallace and Mike Seyfang and Tuesday's plenary session 'Towards a national strategy for developing the ICT capacity for the nfp sector' will be podcast. Full list of sessions, speakers and other information available from the conference website.

I have been thinking a lot about building Online Community in the LongTail as part of my up-coming talk at Connecting Up 2006.  I plan to 'think out loud' in the LearnDog REMIXED podcasts and invite you all to join the conversation through your own blogs and podcasts. 

My most recent podcast is a ReMix of: Net Tuesday 2/15: Mena Trott of Six Apart, Interview (Interview with Mena Trott, president and co-founder of Six Apart, about how blogging is evolving ...)

Yesterday I posted this response to the 'four questions' on the LearnDog blog.

Marnie Webb noticed it and asked me to add it to the "http://netsquared.org/netsquareds-four-questions" section of this site.  I tried but couldn't figure out how so here is an excerpt for convenience:

1. What's *really* new on the Web, as opposed to buzzwords and sound bites?

Dear net2 community - whoever you (we) are!

I am a seasoned veteran when it comes to 'attending' 'un'conferences online (living in South Australia).  I am a newbie to this community and to facilitating conferences in general.  I have volunteered to help a local organisation with their conference here in Australia next year - especially with regard to the 'online' components.

I would love to swap ideas (hopefully publicly via a forum like this blog) and offer my services as a remote tester for the online components of your conference in May 2006.