Chi-town bound: light blogging ahead

I’m heading to Chicago today to take part in this conference on Corporate Communications and the Social Media Revolution, sponsored by Ragan Communications. I and a few co-workers are going up early for the Un-Conference brainstorming session that takes place tomorrow. I doubt I’ll be doing much blogging from the event, since one of my co-workers/co-attendees has planned out every minute of our free time for social activities. But you never know. See you in a few. And if any readers or fellow bloggers are attending this conference, it would be great to meet you there.

Happy OneWebDay

OneWebDayI got up early on this Saturday just to wish you all a Happy OneWebDay.

What am I talking about?

The mission of OneWebDay is to create, maintain, advance and promote a global day to celebrate online life: September 22

So…

Leave your mark online, directly or indirectly. Do a blog post, or a video, about the most interesting thing you’ve seen online recently. Teach someone how to edit a wiki or send a link to a digital photo. Find a way to help more people get online. The internet is made up of all of these individual contributions – it’s a social world, and much more than just a collection of machines.

The central goal of OneWebDay is to encourage people not to take the internet for granted. It’s under threat around the world from a variety of directions, and it’s up to people (just like you) to recognize that these threats exist, that we have a shared responsibility for the future of the internet, and that a global, interoperable internet is important to all of us.