Since a trip to Peru in ’09, I’ve been really into the idea of designing social network sites that better equip people to do grassroots community and collaboration. This started when I was trying to start an volunteer group for a spread-out volunteer community, and found it really difficult and time consuming to pull together communications solutions. I realized that I’m nerdier than most and most would have just given up. So it seems that my personal “charism” as I see it now is making spaces outside of but connected to FB & Twitter where spread-out people can gather in a more focused and well-equipped way to better do grassroots community & collaboration.