My job as Project Manager at ONE/Northwest has me managing several website projects simultaneously. At any one time I may be working anywhere from three to seven website projects in different stages and often of different magnitudes. Like others where I work, I am relatively good at this sort of juggling (though I hit highs and lows in the process).

So I signed up with Issuu today. I uploaded a test document - Lessig's the Future of Information - a big doc that I had hanging out on my desktop. There is an option to treat an upload as a public or private document. Metadata tagging is required.

After about 20 minutes of lag time, I received email notification that my document was ready. Prepping the document for html embed was dead simple. There are a bunch of embed options available:

• Facebook
• myspace
• orkut
• Blogger
• friendster
• TypePad

So about 6 months ago, when I was particularly irritated with the Washington State GOP, I signed up for their newsletter. About 2 months ago, I started receiving email from the McCain Campaign and the RNC. I'd unsubscribe, but it's good to see what the opposition is up to, so usually I read the notices and then delete them. Sometimes there's some light unintentional humor in them that is worthy of forwarding to an office-mate or two.

So here are my thoughts on the DNC Rules Committee Hearings - and, yes, I'm going to relate this to project scoping.

I understand the issues as they are raised by the citizens of Florida and Michigan. Let's call them the end-user stakeholders. This group of stakeholders has been poorly represented by the stakeholders who were tasked with that representative function at the table last year.

I also understand the principles that are being articulated by the Clinton campaign. And I have no issue with that campaign's making a rhetorical argument for a particular outcome.

You can get yours from http://obamaspoke.com/

Web 2.0 Hot or Not
Panel
Allyson Kapin, Connie Reece, Beth Kanter and Heather Holdridge

OSN=Online Social Networking
-- Admin overhead= time, updating profile, ability to give up control, ability to develop genuine relationships, ability to accept criticism from followers
-- Competing with other messages: make it short, casual and compelling
-- Two way communication, accept, solicit and respond to feedback

Beth's cute dog theory: web 2.0 is embraced to share pics of cute cats. What prevents non-profits from sharing photos of their (or dogs?).

Panelists
Kaliya Hamlin, IdentityWoman.net
Leslie Hawthorn, Open Source, Google
Michelle Murrain, Meta Centric Technology Advising

Kaliya, Open Source, and Science background
-- LinuxChicks member
-- Open Source about equal acess to good tools regardless of resources, focus on community building, cmmunity owned and drive software

Leslie, Google Open Source Team
-- thought and discussion of ownership and contribution to software we use
-- force for good: people should be able to contribute to the tools they use, open source software empowers people

Julie Rosen - moderator

Clarissa - Color of Change
+ Jena 6 campaign 400k members
-- politicization of school lack of discipline and over discipline,based on race
-- campaign goals: unequal justice frame pushed to frame case narrative
-- centrality of narrative or story
-- local action, path to take action
-- raise $ for students' defense
-- petitions useful to help create the story frame, not so much as petitions
-- pass alongs to blogs, facebook, myspace (social apps wherecreated by others - not color of change); unaffiliated user-generated content

Question Box: the Internet for remote places, no literacy or keyboards required.

Joho the Blog points to the Italian Beppe Grill Blog using online outreach to push offline petition signing. Food for thought....