Glacial Erratics

Final preparations for the PlaNetwork: Networking a Sustainable Future conference are underway. The conference, starting tomorrow in San Francisco, will make progress answering the following questions:    (000115)

• • How can the Internet be used to mobilize global citizenry around other critical issues affecting our future: ecological destruction, resource depletion, human rights and economic justice?    (000116)
  • How might we use the financial resources of a newly networked global citizenry to implement system-wide transformation?    (000117)
  • How can the Internet allow us to see ourselves, and our collective aspirations, even more directly and productively? What role does geographic imaging play in the ability to think and act more systemically?    (000118)
  • What communications strategies would best enable us to mobilize networks, draw attention to specific issues, envision alternative solutions, and bring about change?    (000119)

The conference is surrounded by a variety of online collaborative tools, in part facilitated by BlueOxen.    (00011A)

There is a Plone/Zwiki site acting as a home for content and discussion. There is an RSS feed reporting changes for the Wiki there. Each page is also set up to do TrackBackAutoDiscovery, pointing TrackBack pings from bloggers to the planetwork conference channel at the InternetTopicExchange (this is part of the blogging strategy mentioned earlier on this blog).    (00011B)

A major feature of the conference is discussion of the recent Link Tank report, The Augmented Social Network. Discussion is occurring on the Plone site, in a mailing list, and in a Link Tank ASN channel at the InternetTopicExchange.    (00011C)

Meanwhile some of the volunteers have gathered on the #planetwork IRC channel at irc.freenode.net to discuss much needed last minute tweaks. That channel is being logged with PurpleNumbers.    (00011D)