What’s Happening? …and How Can I Help?

Originally posted to sCNN – the smallChangeNewsNetwork

The short answer is a lot, even though I’m half a world away from home, working and retreating in Boudhanath, outside of Kathmandu, Nepal. Finally the dust (and connection issues) are settling enough to catch you up on the Small Change News news.

Here is what we now have:

Funding – Lisa Haneberg has offered a source of funds directly related to her e-book sales ForBossDay. She is donating $1 for every sale and has listed sCNN as one of the four places her customers can direct a dollar of their purchase. So everybody with a boss go check it out! Boss’s Day is October 16th! Press Release.

Domain Names – We are now officially the Small Change News Network and have registered SmallChangeNews.ORG and .NET. The site is still hosted (cultivated) inside of GlobalChicago, but can be moved when I get back to Chicago.

Email Infrastructure – Our new email address is mailbag@smallchangenews.org. That’s the front side. On the backside, there is now a tidy little tangle of Yahoo, Blogger, Gmail and a few other services that will help manage the flow of information here.

First Network Node – We’ll know when sCNN is really working, when it starts to be replicated. Well, it’s working now! The Nepal Appreciative Inquiry National Network (for peaceful development) is now listed in the right sidebar as our first Network News node. We set up their blogs following a successful national conference here (in Nepal) last week. Official and personal reports posted here.

Projects, Contributors, Referrers – The lists in the right sidebar are growing, and now all the links there are in place, as well. Please, keep ’em coming!

And here is what we need:

Logos – We need some good looks. When this thing really gets cooking, we want the sCNN logo to show up on project blogs everywhere, and to be able to list many many blogs in many big, interconnected blogrolls, so as to increase attention to the whole swarm of them. We need at least a handful of the small button-type logos that we like to litter our blogs with.

Projects Blogs – Do you know people doing extraordinary work who are or could be blogging their progress and results? Please send them our way, so we can grow the Blogrolls here!

Blogrolling Options – Blogrolling is the one I know best. What other links management tools do you like and use in your blogging? We really need a blogroll that we can let any project leader add themselves to and we can just review the additions for spammers. Maybe this is too much to ask? Please advise!

Ongoing Funds – For hosting fees, service fees, a working conference planned for 2005, database development, and special projects as they come up. We’ll set up a PayPal donation button soon.

Please send… buttons, project bloggers and funding offers to mailbag@smallchangenews.org. Thank you! …and stay tuned!

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