Background: What's the Social Software Alliance?

• Alliance Charter

Events

• BoF Session: 2003-04-23 -- birds of a feather session at O'Reilly ETech
• Happening: 2003-04-18 -- phone / online conference
• other Alliance Events

Mailing List

• subscribe: blank email to social-subscribe@lists.polycot.com
• digest: social-digest-subscribe@lists.polycot.com
• archive: http://lists.polycot.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi/2/

Website / Wiki

you're currently on it

• wiki: http://www.socialsoftwarealliance.org/
• About This Wiki

Projects

• Echo Project
• Generic Weblog API

Topics For Discussion

• About Social Software
• Definition of Social Software
• Social Software Themes and Ideas
• Social Software Institute
• About the Alliance
• Alliance Charter
• Alliance Endorsement campaign
• Alliance Organization
• Alliance Infrastructure
• Alliance Standards Endorsement campaign

^^Blog sightings:

• Danny Ayers
• Marc Canter
• David Carpe
• Scott Johnson
• Peter Kaminski
• Liz Lawley
• Jon Lebkowsky
• Matt Mower
• Ted Roche
• Jason Shellen
• Adriaan Tijsseling
• Paolo Valdemarin
• David Weinberger
• QuickTopic: Social Software Alliance
• Technorati: www.socialtext.net/ssa/
• Stowe Boyd: Timing
• Jose Luis Orihuela
• Erik van Bekkum
• Justin Hitt
• Zaw Thet
• Cutting Through...

^^Articles:

• Darwin - 'Are You Ready For Social Software?' by Stowe Boyd
• 'THE AUGMENTED SOCIAL NETWORK: BUILDING IDENTITY AND TRUST INTO THE NEXT-GENERATION INTERNET' A Link Tank Report by Ken Jordan, Jan Hauser, and Steven Foster

Clay's stuff

People / Companies

• Founding Members

Resources

• Social Software Alliance Logos
• SNA Guide at PassingNotes.com

Call For Discussion

The initial Call For Discussion, 2003-04-16 proposed the formation of an alliance.