Win a free copy of this book on the IGF!

Multi-Stakeholder Governance and the Internet Governance ForumIf you will be at the Nairobi meeting of the IGF, you can win a free paperback copy of this over 600-page book, which although published in 2008, remains the most comprehensive work on the currently hot topic of improvements to the IGF.

All you need to do is to publicise the IGF Community Site igf-online.net, through a microblog (eg. Twitter or identi.ca), Facebook or Google+ post, or a post on your own or a qualifying third-party blog. Tag your post with igf11 and then collect your free book in Nairobi while stocks last – it’s as simple as that!

You may use your own words in your post, but if you are looking for a 140 character example text, you may copy and paste this one:

Attending #IGF? Its Community Site at igf-online.net has a chat room, blog and wiki page for each event, plus calendar and news feeds #igf11

Wednesday September 21st, 2011 – 05:48 AM | By terminus | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments (0)

Spammy accounts deleted

About 90% of the accounts on this site, and a similar number on our associated wiki, have just been deleted as they were presumed to have been registered by spammers. This did not include any of the accounts that had shown signs of legitimate activity, such as posting a comment, blog entry or profile information.
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Friday July 29th, 2011 – 01:55 PM | By terminus | Posted in Online tools | Comments (0)

IGF community chat room now supports Jabber

I have just added the means for you to connect to the IGF community chat room using Jabber.  Jabber is supported by many common chat programs, including iChat, Google Talk, Adium, Pidgin, Psi, Trillian and others.
This means there are now three ways to connect to exactly the same chat:

Using Jabber, join a group chat at …

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Tuesday September 14th, 2010 – 02:00 PM | By terminus | Posted in Online tools | Comments (0)

A walkthrough of igf-online.net

Here is a quick walkthrough highlighting the features of this site, which was originally posted to the Internet Governance Caucus mailing list:

Begin at https://igf-online.net/.  The menu bar that runs across the top links you to all the official and community resources you need for IGF 2010.  If it’s not in your preferred language, try switching …

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Thursday September 2nd, 2010 – 02:02 PM | By terminus | Posted in Online tools | Comments (0)

Free to a good home

This site and domain were a project of the Online Collaboration Dynamic Coalition, and are being minimally maintained by its former coordinator. Any offers from currently active groups such as the Remote Participation Working Group or Internet Governance Caucus to take over administration of igf-online.net will be warmly welcomed.

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Tuesday February 9th, 2010 – 06:43 PM | By terminus | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments (0)

One of the objects of igf-online.net is to bring together all useful Internet resources on the IGF, whether they come from the community, or from the Secretariat or host country, and whether or not they are hosted on this domain. One way in which this is done is through the technology of RSS (Rich …

Wednesday November 14th, 2007 – 11:06 AM | By terminus | Posted in Online tools |

Tip of the day #3: OpenID

Since last year’s IGF Community Site was lost, we faced the prospect of requiring everyone to register again. To minimise this pain, both the blog section of igf-online.net (that you are reading now) and also the wiki section, allow you to log on with an OpenID.
What is an OpenID? It is a system which …

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Tuesday November 13th, 2007 – 10:52 AM | By terminus | Posted in Online tools | Comments (0)

Tip of the day #2: Second Life

Although it is not the most accessible technology for group interaction, the virtual world Second Life has proven to be a popular meeting place for many Internet users. Some of them will be meeting in Second Life during the IGF, at the Internet governance courtyard of Diplo Foundation’s Diplomacy Island. For this year …

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Monday November 12th, 2007 – 10:59 AM | By terminus | Posted in Online tools | Comments (0)

Tip of the day #1: subscribe to the IGF calendar

Each day during the Rio IGF meeting, a new tip will be posted here on ways of participating remotely through the resources that have been provided by the IGF community.
Today’s tip tells you how you can subscribe to a live calendar of IGF events in your desktop calendar program, such as Apple iCal, Mozilla Sunbird, …

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Sunday November 11th, 2007 – 06:47 PM | By terminus | Posted in Online tools | Comments (0)

Future of Internet Policy Survey

IGF participants are being asked by the Imagining the Internet project, a partnership between Pew Internet and American Life Project and Elon University, to complete an online survey on the five key issues being discussed at IGF.  Online attendees can participate in the study as well.  Go to www.imaginingtheinternet.org to complete the study.

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Sunday November 11th, 2007 – 04:26 PM | By cbook | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments (0)