Joe Trippi, pioneer of using online tools in political campaigns, made a very interesting statement last Friday. He said, we've seen the use of radio by FDR and television by JFK, but now "we are going to see a networked president."

In our increasingly wired world, how can you best take advantage of those rare and valuable face-to-face opportunities? We're developing a tidy little strategy around networking events, and here's some early  content I'm kicking around:

There are some interesting assumptions in this theory of the "inefficiency coefficient." I think physicswold has it wrong (how often do we get to say that?)

My colleague Laurie introduced me to the Wikipatterns site this week.  What a great resource. It offers sound and strategic advice for building wikis - one of the hardest Web 2.0 tools to make work well.

There are lots of uses for live blogging - one is to share an event (such as a lecture or conference session) with others in your organization or network.

There's been a lot of buzz about using maps in advocacy, and its been something I've been meaning to explore further. I knew about the use of maps to see that damage done in Darfur (you can track as village go missing, and as communities are destroyed in Zimbabwe). And as neat as these were, they didn't really do anything more than show me what I had just read before I click on "see map."

But today I came across a completely engaging use of maps.