I'm going to start this blog up again to track some of our progress in our implementation of the Information Commons. A lot has been happening lately, here's a quick wrap up:

• In June we successfully launched HumanServices.net, an Information Commons-powered website serving the social service community in Allegheny County, PA. The launch received some positive media attention as well as great feedback from the user community.
  
• Our work with reaching out to the research community has also been going well. In July, two articles were published in different publications, BioIT World and BioTech International about our collaboration with Michael Barmada at the University of Pittsburgh.
• I spoke at the Ecological Society of America's Annual Conference in Memphis, TN. The session was standing room only and I was really encouraged by the positive response to the Information Commons message. Quite a few very promising research partnership opportunities were raised that I will be pursuing.
• Later the same week I attended O'Reilly and Nature's SciFoo Camp I will make another post devoted to this gathering, as it was one of the best professional gatherings I have attended.

More news as it happens (I'll try, anyway!)...