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Below is a remixed version of the presentation I made last Tuesday at the NY Tech Meetup. I have selected the excerpts that relate to my proposal on the NetSquared Mashup Challenge, and created the following video.

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Social Actions at the NY Tech MeetupLast night, the NY Tech Meetup hosted a conversation with 6 social action practitioners (myself included) about the future of organizing.

Presenters included: Jordan Goldberg (Stickk.com), Jesse Richards (MeetUp), Paul Miller (School of Everything), Andrew Mason (ThePoint), Clay Shirky (Here Comes Everybody), and myself.

For notes from each presentation, see Sanford Dickert's live blogging of the event. A big thank you to Scott Heiferman and Dawn Barber for organizing the event and inviting me to speak.

I used my time to provide an overview of the peer-to-peer social change field, quickly demo Social Actions, and then make a pitch for my proposal on the NetSquared Mashup Challenge.

I have audio from the event, and will spend tomorrow preparing the archived presentations and subsequent Q&A.

Update 3/12/08: I have uploaded the presentations to my profile on Blip.TV.

In the meantime, here are the slides from my presentation.

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Note: The third slide of this presentation didn't convert well to the SlideShare format. It should read: 29+ social action platforms, each with its own: User base, Facbeook app, Tag cloud, Reputation system, Widget system, Payment method, and Fee structure

NY Tech MeetupThe next three months are packed with exciting events for Social Actions.

Next week, I am headed to New York City to present alongside Clay Shirky (Here Comes Everybody), Paul Miller (School of Everything), Andrew Mason (The Point), and Jordan Goldberg (StickK) at the NY Tech Meetup (March 4).

We’ve each been given 5 minutes to talk about self-organizing with social media and demo our web 2.0 initiatives in front of 400+ technology professionals and entrepreneurs. I’m planning to use my five minutes to present the Social Actions Mashup and talk briefly about the Social Actions wizard (currently in development). If I can get hold of a video camera, I’ll record the five presentations and post them on YouTube or Blip.tv.

At the end of March, I head to New Orleans to attend the Nonprofit Technology Conference (March 19, 20, 21). I won’t be presenting this year. Instead, I’m looking forward to absorbing as much of other people’s knowledge as possible and meeting my online colleagues face-to-face.

If my proposal in the NetSquared Mashup Challenge picks up enough support in the next four weeks, Social Actions will have a chance to present its mashup proposal of 29+ social action platforms at the upcoming NetSquared Conference in San Jose (May 27 & 28). You can learn more about the NetSquared Mashup Challenge in this post.

I’ll do my best to live blog from all of these events. Stay tuned for an exciting three months of blog entries.

All the best, Peter