Games for Change is looking for an Online Social Network Manager-Designer. Looks like a great opportunity for someone with a CIC skill set:

http://www.gamesforchange.org/

WebJunction Community Associate

WebJunction is hiring immediately for a Community Associate, who will act as primary contact for all community-related content, programming, and interactive tools for WebJunction.org. The Community Associate will work directly with the WebJunction Community Manager to synchronize the community building goals of all WebJunction granted programs with those of the larger WebJunction community, and with WebJunction’s Community Partner Program. The major objective is to nurture and grow the WebJunction community and all related communities of interest.

Please forward to interested colleagues and lists. This is a call for participation for the Online Communities and Social Computing thematic area within the general Human Computer Interaction International conference to be held in Beijing next summer. Please consider presenting  a paper, convening  a panel discussion, or participating in other ways.

HCI International 2007, 22-27 July 2007, Beijing International

May 30-31. Details here.

vibrant, action-oriented dialogue among five communities (broadly defined):

1. Cutting edge futurists, innovators, developers, and mediastes
2. Leaders from both core technology and social web tool companies and from venture capital firms
3. Philanthropists
4. Public Interest Technology practitioners and supporters
5. Nonprofits and NGOs- large and small -- from the U.S. and the World - early
   adopting and on the cusp - united by a vibrant interest in
   understanding the potential of the social web and realizing that
   potential to accomplish their missions.

Announcement 
The Reuters Digital Vision Program (RDVP) at Stanford University is accepting applications for the 2006-07 academic year (September 2006 - June 2007). The deadline is April 3, 2006. Fellowships will be awarded at the end of May, 2006.
 
The Program
 
The Digital Vision Program supports social entrepreneurs who seek to leverage technology-based solutions in the interest of humanitarian, educational, and sustainable development goals. The Program fosters interdisciplinary projects and prototyping efforts that address real needs in underserved communities. For the 2006-07 academic year, the program will focus on the following broad categories:

I spent a good chunk of my evening (after reading all about using alignment for good visual interface design) putting together a Powerpoint about developing the CIC site. The Library Technology Division of the Michigan Library Association asked us to present about our site at the annual state conference in Grand Rapids later this month. I'm moderately petrified about presenting to Michigan's librarians, but becoming a little less intimidated by presenting overall since I have to keep doing it for classes.

It's all about peer pressure.

Well, it's really all about others getting involved (or getting others involved) on the CIC web site. I've been working on it for almost a year now and it's been a lot of effort. Today's meeting with Lev and Kyle about our approach for the site this fall was really refreshing for me. We agreed that core functionality--accommodating what people REALLY use on the site--is our main objective. Hurrah!

At a Suit's Core: Are Bloggers Reporters, Too? -- JONATHAN GLATER

A lawsuit filed in California by Apple Computer is drawing the courts into that question:
Who should be considered a journalist?

(Stories from the New York Times are available with free registration from the Times website for seven days. After that, they should be available from ProQuest with UM authentication.)

See the attached write-up (Word doc) by Georgia Portuondo about this week's topic.

Assignment:
Sign up for thefacebook.com and explore the features. If you want, create a
profile and add your friends, but that's not required.

Please see the attached write-up from the comments (below) and in-class discussion.