A quick update from the NetSquared team!

There's been a lot of hard work taking place behind the scenes at NetSquared on a shiny new project submission form!  You'll be able to view and use this new form soon - sometime in early October.  So, if you were looking to submit a project, you just need to a wait a little longer and we'll be set!

Great news for everyone - Thanks!

It's been a little over 2 months since the NetSquared Conference (N2Y3) where the 21 NetSquared Mashup Challenge Featured Projects presented their ideas.  The Conference may have ended, but their work has not. 

I've created a list below of the 21 Projects' web sites, blog feeds, Twitter feeds, news feeds and Facebook groups so that you can follow their work as it progresses. (Note: Many of the proejcts also have e-newletters or mailing lists that you can join through their sites).  If I've missed any feeds or sites, please let me know in the comments and I'll add them to the list.

If you are interested in helping a project out, you can contact them directly, or contact Billy Bicket at bbicket AT compumentor DOT org about joining the NetSquared Innovator Support Network.

A Mashup of 29+ Social Action Platforms -- Social Actions
* Third Place Winner

Project site: http://mashup.socialactions.com/
Supporting org site: http://www.socialactions.com
Blog: http://blog.socialactions.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/socialactions
Social Actions on Facebook

A little about Capitol News Connection:

 Louisville's newspaper, the Courier-Journal, wrote their first full article about Metro Mapper on the front page of the Business section. It's a great distillation of about three hours of interview with the reporter, Bill Wolfe.

Courier-Journal Article 

So far it's generated a lot of interest and traffic for the site, the Your Mapper project, and lots of interest in the NetSquared conference and N2Y3 contest.

Hi everyone,

Latest news headlines from around the world demonstrating the need for Project Bija in America and around the world.

United States: American Institute of Architects chose community for design sustainability project

http://www1.pressdemocrat.com/article/20080324/NEWS/803240310/1033/NEWS&template=kart

Sri Lanka - Provincial leader states: "Resources must be utilised in a proper way to achieve sustainable development."

I have submitted a project called Change Broadcast channels.

 

It brings advanced technologies and tools from Twitter, Daylife and Flurry together to create communities that would bring social change to the world.

Today, I'm excited to announce the Drupal Newsroom Module beta powered by NewsCloud. The Drupal Newsroom provides an excellent way to add dynamic current events and news to your Drupal-powered Web site. It's also a great way to stimulate involvement and discussion in your online member community.

The Drupal Newsroom module provides a page for your Drupal-powered Web site with news stories based on specific topic(s) from NewsCloud.com or populated by your staff or site members. The newsroom module allows your members to browse headlines, read stories, vote, comment and post new articles.

The Aid Workers Network is a UK-based nonprofit created in 2002 by a group of aid workers. According to the FAQ page on the site, over 12,000 aid workers are registered members of the community.

The site includes a news aggregator that pulls from aid workers' and aid organizations' blogs, including a great looking blog called, humanitarian.info.  One of humanitarian.info's posts pointed me to the UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affair's Virtual Humanitarian Information Centre for Lebanon.  OCHA also has Virtual Humanitarian Centres for Pakistan, Niger, Sri Lanka, Sumatra, Darfur and Liberia.

pingVision wrote up a short piece about their work on the Network that says that it is a "CivicSpace-powered site" that is "powered by Drupal's phpTemplate theme engine." They also designed the logo.

US House Resolution 5319, the Deleting Online Predators Act (DOPA), was passed by a 410 to 15 vote tonight. If the Resolution becomes law social networking sites and chat rooms must be blocked by schools and libraries or those institutions will lose their federal internet subsidies. According to the resolution's top line summary it will "amend the Communications Act of 1934 to require recipients of universal service support for schools and libraries to protect minors from commercial social networking websites and chat rooms."

The rhetoric from advocates was all about MySpace. For example, Texas Republican Ted Poe says, "social networking sites such as MySpace and chat rooms have allowed sexual predators to sneak into homes and solicit kids."

I just covered this in more detail, with links to key resources for ongoing updates, over at TechCrunch.

The newest This Week in NetSquared News is up on the NetSquared podcast channel.

If you have Net2 related news from your community (i.e. events, examples of nonprofits or NGOs using the social web, comments and opinions) that you'd like included in the Net2 podcast, just email the text to bbravo AT techsoup.org, or send an MP3 to the same email using YouSendIt.