Thank you kbaird for the photo!

This is Brenda Hough, blogging live from the NetSquared conference, currently attending a session on Flickr and community. The presenter is Gail Ann Williams, community manager at the WELL.

Gail feels that Flickr is a great tool use for many things. Thinks a big part of its success is that there are multiple ways of finding people and sorting things. Another cool thing is that people have developed multiple expressions of culture around them.

That lovely lady is Susan Hellein, a Project Manager for NetSquared. The photo was taken yesterday by Matthew Saunders at the pre-NetSquared Conference reception for sponsors and Featured Projects.

I found it because Matthew added it to the NetSquared Flickr Pool.

Whether you are at the NetSquared Conference, a Net Tuesday, or some other Net2-related event, add your photos to the pool and tag them with "net2." Folks who are at the NetSquared Conference should also add the tags "n2y3" and "n2y3con."

Looking forward to seeing your photos!

I'm thrilled to be going to Net Squared this year to share some of what I've learned by using and exploring Flickr!

If you haven't heard already, Flickr for Good and TechSoup have teamed up to provide 10,000 1-year Flickr pro accounts to eligible nonprofits and public libraries in the U.S. and Canada. (Pro accounts usually cost $25/year).

Do you have photos on Flickr from the NetSquared Conference, a Net Tuesday, or another NetSquared related event?

Join the NetSquared Flickr group and add your pix!

Photo by Ed Schipul.

In response to Britt's post about NetSquared's "2007 Best of the Nonprofit Social Web" awards, I humbly submit my own organization, The Nature Conservancy, as an entrant in the Best Use of the Social Web for Raising Awareness by a Nonprofit category.

2007 has been a breakthrough year for The Nature Conservancy's web marketing efforts on the social web, particularly on social news and bookmarking web sites. After about nine months of building up trust and credibility in some of the major social news and bookmarking networks, we finally saw results in a big way this year, including:

Holly Ross' post on the NTEN Blog, Community Tweets in the SoCal Fires, gives you links to individuals and organizations reporting news from the fires on blogs and Twitter.

This Flickr photo, Red Sky by Morning, San Diegans Take Warning, was taken by SL Working2 . You can see more photos of the fires in the San Diego, San Diego Fire and Southern California Fires - 2007 Flickr Pools.

Update: A Google Map of the fire is also available.

Sierra Club has a lovely outreach tool that engages their nature-loving, photo-taking supporters while also delivering a much needed product: inspiration.

Anyone can subscribe to Ray of Hope, a daily email that includes an inspirational quote with a photograph taken by a Sierra Club supporter.

You can submit your photo for consideration on the Sierra Club's Ray of Hope Flickr group. I'm gonna go sign up and submit some photos right now. Fun!

June 6-8, in Heiligendamm, Germany, leaders from the United States, Great Britain, Canada, France, Italy, Japan, Germany and Russia will meet during the G8 Summit.

You can follow Oxfam International's coverage of the Summit this week on their blog, Flickr stream and YouTube channel.