There are many fundamental changes happening in the way we share information that we are shaping IN THIS SPACE....how can we aggregate and multiply the whole of this work through simple cooperative means? I know <Ned> already has this in mind, but I hope we can keep the dialogue around cooperative growth alive.

I'm with you, Evonne. All of the initiatives at http://lifeinafrica.com are running through paypal via ned... which means that anybody else here who has products to sell can theoretically set up shopping cart buttons through that account and be a part of a single Onet shopping cart experience for this community.

When I suggested this to Lars, he wondered about transaction fees - yes, we will have to pay the paypal fee plus (Mark your input here please) a 2.5 fee to ned but only on items you run through the ned/onet-wide shopping cart. I believe the additional audience would be worth the extra fee, you can build it into your price, and the increase goes to ned which goes into better world building anyway.

If we had items from/ways to support TEN, Kaboom!, PeaceTiles, Seeing Beyond sight, etc then a workspace to pull those together in one place would be easy enough to promote to the Onet community at large.

At lifeinafrica.com I'm also promoting all the projects here I've been able to find graphics on - partners of substance are in the top right spot, allies in the bottom spot, and there's a LiA Recommends spot on the right sidebar where I've got Made by Survivors, PeaceTiles and Michele's charity giving boxes rotating.

Would love to include live shopping cart buttons at lifeinafrica.com on any items where a lia support mechanism has been worked in (thinking particularly of Michele's giving boxes - she's talked of including $1 for lia on sales). If we can set up a space for parsing through the paypal transactions then mark disburses to the different projects monthly - maybe by check to those of you in the USA?

I do think we can change the face of this place, Evonne. And thanks for the feedback on the new site. I am pleased the reception's been good so far. BTW dear, keep an eye on this thread: http://www.omidyar.net/group/lia /news/99/