We had our first meeting of the Philadelphia Collective on November 3, 2005. In attendance were Karen Kohn, John Iliff, another Karen, and Tracey Maleef. We discussed what the collective could do. The main idea that we came away with was offering to lead workshops for various groups. I (Karen) know someone from the Philly IMC, whom I will contact with a list of topics that we could do workshops on. John is very technologically knowledgeable, and he has also spoken about the Patriot Act.

Here are the topics:
fact-checking
RSS feeds (setting them up and subscribing to them)
podcasting
PATRIOT Act

If anyone else has Philadelphia connections or ideas on how we should proceed with outreach, suggestions are welcome.