This is a Net Tuesday presentation by Gordon Strause, product manager for Yahoo! Groups. Groups is one of the longest running social organization tools on the Internet. It has millions of active groups. Gordon reflects on Yahoo! Group's place in the development of social networking tools and how nonprofits have used it. He also hints at some ways that Yahoo! might change Groups in the coming year to update it.

This is a Net Tuesday interview by David Collin with Gordon Strause, product manager for Yahoo! Groups. Groups is one of the longest running social organization tools on the Internet. It has millions of active groups. Gordon reflects on Yahoo! Group's place in the development of social networking tools and how nonprofits have used it. He also hints at some ways that Yahoo! might change Groups in the coming year to update it.

The following is a Net Tuesday presentation by Ian Kennedy, the product manager for MyBlogLog, a service of Yahoo! MyBlogLog is a community building service for bloggers. Individuals who register with MyBlogLog leave their picture or avatar and some profile information automatically  each time they visit a web site registered at MyBlogLog and running  its widget. They become the top-of-the-list face on the Recent Readers section of the blog or web site. Readers become part of a social community around the blog. Ian discusses how nonprofits can use MyBlogLog to build community around their sites.

The following is an interview by David Collin with Ian Kennedy, the product manager for MyBlogLog, a service of Yahoo! MyBlogLog is a community building service for bloggers. Individuals who register with MyBlogLog leave their picture or avatar and some profile information automatically  each time they visit a web site registered at MyBlogLog and running  its widget. They become the top-of-the-list face on the Recent Readers section of the blog or web site. Readers become part of a social community around the blog. Ian discusses how nonprofits can use MyBlogLog to build community around their sites.

Ben Rigby is the Founder and Co-executive Director of Mobile Voter.  He is also the author, with Rock the Vote, of a new book coming out in April called Mobilizing Generation 2.0: A Practical Guide to Using Web2.0 Technologies to Recruit, Organize and Engage Youth.

You can read a transcript of this interview on the NetSquared Blog.