OneWebDay

We’re getting a lot of visitors, and the first post has disappeared down the page a few times, so we’re repeating it: Welcome!

This is the clearinghouse site for OneWebDay, a celebration of the internet scheduled for September 22, 2006 (and all the September 22s thereafter).

OneWebDay is one day a year when we all – everyone around the physical globe – can celebrate the Web and what it means to us as individuals, organizations, and communities.

As with Earth Day – an inspiration and model for OneWebDay – it’s up to the celebrants to decide how to celebrate. We encourage all celebrations! Collaboration, connection, creativity, freedom.

By the end of the day, the Web should be just a little bit better than it was before, and we’ll be able to see our connection to it more clearly.

OneWebDay is September 22 every year, starting in 2006.

If you write about OneWebDay or take a picture related to OneWebDay, tag it onewebday and it will show up on this site. If you even mention OneWebDay in your blog post, it will show up here.

If you’re interested in being part of a project to celebrate the net on OneWebday, go to the ProjectWiki.

If you’d like to coordinate a project, let us know and we’ll help find people for you to work with. If you’d like to sponsor a project, by providing computing resources or money, let us know at sponsor@onewebday.org. This site is serving as a clearinghouse for projects, helping to match people to ideas (and ideas to people).

Sample projects could include:
Collective art projects (see yourself as a pixel)
Music mashups
Contributing to a slide show of flickr images of people doing the onewebday hand signal
A collection of oral histories — how the web changed my life
How I found my job online
How I found friends online
What the web means to me
How I work online
Teach your grandmother to blog
Teach the mayor to blog
Wire a town, or create a wireless hotspot
Put your digital pictures online.
Make a website for your club, church, school.
Make an entry for your neighborhood in Wikipedia.
Find out the email addresses of your neighbors and start a neighborhood mailing list.
Companies: run a virtual meeting for work-at-home employees.
Employees: teach your boss to IM.
Parents: get your kids to teach you to IM.
Doctors: Set up web-based self-scheduling for patients.
Libraries and schools: Run a website-building workshop.

About OneWebDay, Inc.
OneWebDay, Inc. is a non-profit organization. Really and truly. All donations will be devoted to making this celebration work well globally. To reach us, write to questions@onewebday.org.

The basic idea is to celebrate the internet by doing interesting and worthwhile projects online and offline that demonstrate what the web can do, and how it has changed all of our lives.

Please look around — and add to the ProjectWiki.