This month’s Net2 Think Tank question was, “What do you think will be the big changes, new technologies, hot applications, or successful campaigns of 2009?” Take a look at the posts below—many great conversation starters to get you thinking and buzzing about what 2009 will bring. Originally posted on the NetSquared blog.

My current job title includes the term “Community Builder” and I get asked nearly every day just what that means: how do you build community? where is the community you want to build? how can I be a community builder online? I want to take a break from all the hard work building community (does that get a wink?)

In 2009 their campaigns made me laugh or helped me channel my frustration over injustices into action. Here’s my list of the best websites and online campaigns from 2009. Charity:Water In 2009 Charity:Wate r became the super star of the nonprofit world for using social media to brand themselves and raise money online.

If social media is about individuals conversing authentically with a community, who's in charge of the conversation? . To whit: the second coming of the online community manager.  . I'll summarize some of my favorite bits for the rest of you: Are communities any more engaged when there's an official community manager?

Online Communities: what works, and what doesn't. tags: online communities ). Tags: slideshare community slideshows View more presentations from Bart De waele.

David Wilcox and I are getting ready for iterations on Social by Social - the first two being applications of the lessons learned and strategies for using social media shared in Social by Social ( read online or download the PDF for free, or buy your hardcopy ) in local communities and the same for local government.  of other projects. 

Flickr: Chad_Norman The 2009 Nonprofit Technology Conference was a blast, but it sure felt like a whirlwind of information and people. Tags: 09NTC community buzz NPTech NTEN We're lucky that so many attendees took photos, blogged, and tweeted to capture and share their conference experiences. All Delicious-ly tagged 09ntc.

thought his five skills were equally significant viewed through the lens of the future "community manager". agree wholeheartedly with these and think they relate quite naturally to community management and community building (which is really the goal of engaging stakeholders). marketing? membership? Anyway. They are: 1.

It sounds like a dry subject, but tagging is really super cool and ha massive implications for the design, building and nurturing of online communities and I thought I'd jot down some notes I took straight out of the book so you can see why. Tags: tagging community There can be friction between these. Do you allow user-generated tags?

I had been looking forward to Clay Shirky 's plenary at the 2009 Nonprofit Technology Conference for a while, and he did not let me down. It's required reading for anyone working with online communities and social capital, and his talk today took the book's concepts to a new level. It did. Enjoy! Hire your own 23-year-olds."