I regularly promote speaking opportunities for women,and in Washington DC, one of the ongoing options is the ignite events at ignite-dc.com. Although I usually just promote and attend, those I know who grace the stage including some amazing ones;

 A few weeks ago AlwaysOn posted "The Lack of Women in Tech," it's an interesting read and includes a few articles that discuss some of the issues in the tech field about these challenges. Challenges that I have been fully aware of as a techie who speaks across the country about this issue. The article is a good read and has some resources you should check out.
 

The challenges with the social web and the aggregation of content is that there isn't a simple way to do it at this point. There are a lot of social media tools and various apps but they may not all be connected to you. Here is an example:

What Buzz offers is both a public and private group engagement, these examples used by Geoff, (yes, including my quote) depicts how some social media tools can be used depending on the needs of the organization or the type of social media campaign.

Haydon points out, it can be used for those that may not be as tech savvy and the process won't seem to foreign to them.

Buzz has had it's rough spots as danah boyd pointed out at her SXSW keynote, people still want the control and options for privacy. Defaulting public is a bad idea. So having social media tools that can offer public or private choices is the direction that I believe will be successful models of future social networks.

My snippet on Amplify is here! but you should check out the whole article on Mashable.

See original: 4 Ways Non Profits Can Use the Buzz via @geoffliving @mashable

The Future of the Web is a project by Open Ampify, a series of innovators giving their views on what will be happening next. I was fortunate enough to get interviewed and give my point of view. If you haven't heard me speak about "Here Comes Everybody" Clay Shirky's book that is what I am referencing in the video here.