Should project champions and biz dev gurus assigned to projects go on stage with the project leaders themselves in the breakways? Justin and I went up there in the social impact session, but we felt like we didn't really add much and sorta took up time introducing ourselves that coulda been better used by the project leaders themselves.

What do y'all think?

I'm Seth Mazow, project champion for Maps2.0 and self-delegated NetSquared groupie. The NetSquared people and resources have taught me a lot over the past 18 months, and I'm thrilled to be giving back in the role of project champion. I only wish I could do it for more than one project!

I currently do communications and tech stuff for Interplast, but I'm leaving in a couple weeks to see what the world has to offer (and what I can offer the world) from outside the confines of a cubicle in silicon valley.

Yesterday Interplast announced that “A Story of Healing,” has been re-released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommerical-No Derivatives license (by-nc-nd) and is available for free online. This is the first time that an Academy Award® winning film has been licensed under any Creative Commons license.

Do you live in NYC?  Are you interested in photography, blind people or photography by blind people?  If so, check out the Seeing Beyond Sight Photo Challenge and Party this Saturday from 2-5pm in Brooklyn.  The idea is to blindfold yourself and wander around your world, taking pictures of what you see/feel.  You can always do it on your own, but this event is more social.

Seeing Beyond Sight is a fascinating project by Tony Deifell.  Basically, he gave cameras to blind teenagers and taught them about photography:

Gregg Swanson, from Humaninet, is shown in this video discussing Sim Day, which I just talked about in my last post.

Demos, demos and more demos, originally uploaded by HumaniNet.

Two days ago I spoke at Humaninet / TechReach Sim Day at the Intuit campus in Mountain View. It was an interesting collection of people, most of them being white men in business casual clothes involved in supplying NGOs, governments and the like tech tools to aid disaster relief work.

So it’s been a week since the Net Squared Conference.  I’ve had some time to catch up on my myriad emails and other assorted office things that piled up in my absence, and I’d like to offer up some of my impressions.

For the past few months, I’ve been avidly squeezing all that I could from Net Squared.  I’m a pretty stereotypical accidental techie here at Interplast, and I have been relying on the Net2 community to point me in the right direction for understanding Web 2.0 tools and technologies.  Even though I watch the videos and keep the Net2Learn sections as handy references, I seem to get the most out of the personal connections I’ve made. 

Hi!  I'm Seth Mazow, communications and technology coordinator for Interplast, the first international humanitarian organization to provide free reconstructive surgery in developing countries.  My job is to raise awareness about our work to the Interplast community and the world at large, as well as to troubleshoot in-house technical problems ("Seth, my emails aren't going through!!!").  While not a techie by training, I have tried to adapt to my "obvious techie since he's the youngest person on staff" role.