"Personal Business"
"Human-scale venture"

Very cool - we were just building a shortener and header bar for something similar. Have ideas on how to expand if you are interested in chatting about it.

Cheers!

Interesting Josh. I've been thinking about this too from a bit of a different perspective - as in what would a coordinated effort look like to create a common infrastructure. This is a core problem for this emerging medium and something that might more easily be addressed like Visa did back in the 70's - having a bunch of independents coming together to solve a common problem. I've put up some initial thoughts up over at http://igniter.com/post428.

I think so too and wonder what @fredwilson and @howardlindzon's followers think. They have similar avatars and are both authentically themselves in their tweets - but I wonder what would happen if they subbed in good face pics. My guess is it would add to the experience if they were natural vs. posed pics - e.g. the pic matched how they tweet and who they are. So maybe it's really more about the authentic representation of the person/personality - and so it's not just about adding a picture - like a canned press shot but rather a real, authentic, in the wild shot of who you really are - just like your twitter stream.

Brad - great post and I think you nailed it... open-source + web are big this year and I'm betting that things that do open-source + web + social change are going to do some of the most innovative game-changing stuff of the decade.

Happy holidays to you and yours!

Great post Jen... thanks for contributing!

Karim, I love these round-ups... of course I'm biased but thanks again for taking the lead on creating socialfinance.ca. Great stuff!

I don't know that the goal should be to maximize social capital but it definitely should be intentionally nurtured in the process of venturing toward the organization's purpose. I think that is something that comes mostly from the values mindset of the people involved and can be aided by the communiction technologies we have today.