It's barely been a month, and there has been a lot of work by a lot of people. The real value of what e426 will be to the world has been seen in how we - volunteers all - have pulled together as a team. This is the new world, folks, where you hope to actually meet someone someday, while you work with them, bond with them, make that magic with them where your skills mesh to make something more than you can do separately. The virtual environment allows people to come together across the ...

Sandy Kearney, e426.org's volunteer president, can be heard on the current "Dogear Nation" podcast. Check out Sandy's take on the state of the economy, the 3D internet, what e426 is all about and - naturally - her own Dogears (links). Check out the podcast here.

Big news in the Twitterverse .... You can now follow e426.org on Twitter at twitter.com/e426. See you over in Tweetville!

Some good questions have been asked ... One, what is "e426" supposed to mean, and how does that resonate with our target audiences? Well, ok, it IS kind of an in-joke. So, "e" = "Ex", and you and your telephone should be able to make out the rest. What about the leaf symbol. The image here came up after a number of conversations, a "new start", if you will; "turning over a new leaf" was another line. Growth, grassroots, insulated in that we are not looking to build a replacement for any one company or resource, ...

One of the things that falls into the "fun" category (for me, anyway) as you develop a new organization is creating the website. We're starting to work on a number of designs for the e426.org site, and we've got a great designer working with us. I can't spill the beans yet, but be sure to check in on the main website on July 1, 2009. It'll be cool, I promise ...