Greetings, I'd love to get your input on whether you'd be interested in participating or presenting at an "e-conference" on Social Media in Public Life with an emphasis on community service. The quick survey is here: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=QSYia1RDJnulTuMZBIr_2bYg_3d_3d We also ask about follow-up in-person community service "unconferences." Context: E-Democracy.Org, a volunteer-based community service and civic engagement organization, with local online "Issues Forums" across 15 local communities, is considering putting in a bid to become one of the Corporation for National and Community Service's national training providers. We've done webinars - http://e-democracy.org/webinars - helped with unconferences - http://e-democracy.org/unconf - and over the last 15 years I've spoken/lead seminars across 27 countries on using the Internet in civic engagement - http://stevenclift.com - ... so submitting (or joining a bid) to bring social media training online is a good fit. We also fairly uniquely deliver community service using volunteers via the Internet itself and most recently in the low income/high immigrant/diverse neighborhoods of the Twin Cities - http://blog.e-democracy.org/posts/172 We are more interested in "collabortition" than competition, so we've taken an open source approach with our drafting. Details and links to the call and an online group you can join to participate in our potential bid are all available from: http://pages.e-democracy.org/Social_media_in_community_service Please pass this on to those you think might be interested in attending or presenting (our bulk of our budget suggests 30 paid e-presenters paid for 10 days of work with a laundry list of duties and deliverables released under the creative commons). Sincerely, Steven Clift E-Democracy.Org clift@e-democracy.org http://twitter.com/democracySWu