DISQUS

That flooring is the flimsiest I've ever seen. It's impossible to walk quietly on it. No idea how you ever get any sleep. Can't imagine which genius decided that it would be a sensible idea to build a hospital ward like a shack. Reminds me of those outdoor cabins we used to have lessons in at Sawston!

Wow the picture looks exactly like the view from where we were sitting. Here's to more days of sunshine and visits to the field eh? Gotta love that N2 borders onto it. Top effort to manage it without the wheelchair too!

Anyway here's wishing you luck for the next round and no adverse effects with Tacrolimus

Disqus finally working!! Hope the next couple of days go smoothly and they get the central line in easily. See you very soon.

Great. Look forward to it. Good luck with the moving etc.

Hi Mas. Good points. My thoughts on this are that none of the existing social networks like Facebook or MySpace are designed to inspire action. However they can be used as conduits. In terms of audience, considering that Facebook has just gone over 120 odd million hits a month, and with over 80 million members most of which are in the Gen Y and Gen X demographics, it is a huge active majority that can be mobilised. The challenge is understanding and leveraging their motivations, and making it effortless. I'm reasonably confident around how we can do this by tapping into existing networks but not using their infrastructure or the standard models of interaction like wikis, blogs, comments, etc that most people never contribute to. My feeling is that our first challenge is to remove the real and perceptual barriers to helping others, by developing information, experience sharing and creativity based virtual volunteering that is quick, easy and satisfying. Then once we've built a decent community, slowly begin to leverage it for offline volunteering. But we must come at it from the perspective of the individual volunteer and enabling the value they want out of it, and not the traditional perspective of plugging organisations that need help. Bit difficult to convey the scope of what I'm thinking via these comments. If you'd like to talk it through and share some ideas I'd be happy to meet and discuss. Just drop me an email.

On the subject of Social Gaming, I recently did some research around Social Networks for Gamers and have compiled a list of what's hot in my post - "20 Social Networks and Online Communities for Gamers" (http://multichannelthinking.blogspot.com/2008/0...)

If you're looking for volunteers, I've compiled a comprehensive list of all the different volunteering sites online where you might be able to highlight the help you need. http://urbansurvivalproject.googlepages.com/onl...

A friend just forwarded me this post. Thought you might like to know that I'm working on a version of just this. Using next generation web technologies, social networks and online social behaviour to enable virtual volunteering; primarily to support the development of inner city youth. More info on my blog at www.urbansurvivalproject.org