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Doc and I did a panel, led by Jerry Michalski, on the state of markets as conversations. Most of the discussion was around Doc's Vendor Relationship Management model. Interesting dicsussion with the audience.

(The Supernova "conversation hub" is here. And Isabel Walcott's thorough bloggage of the session with Doc and me — with Isabel's commentary — is here. BTW, this is part of the Wharton day, and this track is sponsored by Cisco. )

Now I'm in a session about people doing cool things in the nonprofit domain.

Maria Daniels of WGBH's American Experience series talks about the Citizen Storytellers Project enables citizens to do video via cell phones. It's an unfunded add-on to the series.

Howard Greenstein introduces a video of Farouk Olu Aregbe who created One Million Strong for Barack on FaceBook, from outside the Obama campaign. Then we get Farouk on the phone. What has he learned about creating social networks around candidates? One thing is that the regulatory environment is tough. And there are scaling issues. Q: Is your software available for other candidates? A: It's Facebook and third party software.howard then introduces a video inteview with Rolando H. Brown of the non-profit Hip-Hop Association promoting hiphop as a way to support community values and social awareness. The foundation runs a film festival and educational conferences.

Susan [missed the last name] of TechSoup talks about the Nonprofit Commons Project . The Commons was donated by Anshe Chung, the first SL millionaire. It's an island for nonprofits. Hundreds of member organizations get free space.