Last night I attended the first NetSquared meet-up. NetSquared is a forum for people interested in the intersection between IT and social change. This local event has spun out of the Web of Change community as a more regular place to keep in touch and share ideas. The session was kicked off by Tom Williams at GiveMeaning.com, self-professed Obama fan-boy. I was interested to hear Tom speak as I recently used the GiveMeaning site as part of Josie’s charity. Unfortunately, relatively little of his talk was about the site, so there wasn’t much new there.

The highlight presentation of the evening was by Igor Faletski from Handi Mobility talking about their new project livevote.ca. This simple Flash-driven site allows you to set up SMS-driven polls in seconds. Handi Mobility is behind the Translink SMS schedule system and they have set the livevote.ca site up as a free service. The poll results are easily embeddable within a web site as you should be able to see below:

At the session I also had the chance to catch up with Trevor Bowden, who I haven’t seen since high school, about his new venture EcoLabelling.org. This site provides a great service by helping consumers and businesses sort through the array of professed ecolabels out there, sorting the good from the greenwash.