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Newsweek reports that the same entrepreneurs who funded the "user-generated revolution" are now looking to professionals to edit and produce online content.

Are we at a turning-point with the "wisdom of the crowds" and moving to a more trusted and refined Web?

http://www.newsweek.com/id/119091/page/1

It was noted on the first day of Drupalcon that 93% of attendees are men. After talking with a couple of
other women working with CivicActions, I decided it was worth setting up a Birds of a Feather session: The Other 7% - Women and Drupal.

At lunch time today, about 12 of us met up and it was great to meet some women in the community whose names I see regularly online like karens,webchick, add1sun, Allie Micka. We took some time to introduce ourselves and discussed how to encourage more women to join the Drupal community.

We're fresh back from our June 2007 offsite retreat at the Wildwood Retreat Center in Guerneville, California!

As always, pictures on Flickr in the CivicActions Group. Exciting news to come when we get caught-up on the email!

CivicActions is very proud to announce that we are a Gold Sponsor for the upcoming DrupalCon in Barcelona!

DrupalCon will take place September 19th thru 22nd.

Visit http://barcelona2007.drupalcon.org for more information and to sign-up for DrupalCon.

We look forward to seeing you in Spain!

SEOMoz just posted a great article about how a web community is formed and fostered.

Communities rally around a strong purpose.

Successful communities build around the individual.

Communities need an administrator and a set of ethical principles.

And communities need purpose, participants, platform, policing, profiles, and ease of use.

I just read of Charles Leadbeater's book project, We-Think on World Changing. Leadbeater and his publisher have pre-released his book about new forms of collaboration and organization.
From the introduction: