I enjoyed the SMIF discussion as well. Highlights of the conversation from my perspective:

• High turnout (25-30) and over half of those who turned up contributed to the conversation.
• Focus was on “social”, not on the tools.
• Emphasis on how the use of these tools can enhance face to face, personal social networks. Help establishing new trust, new connections, etc.
• Recognition that many, many tools can be used to enhance social networks. Not just the tools (blogs, aggregators/rss, wiki, etc.) that I mentioned in the invitation to the sesion.
• Importance of tagging and RSS as the most common element between all the tools discussed.

Hopefully, we’ll see some KMLF members doing some guest posting here as a result of the discussion. One participant said that she felt that the discussion was just “part one” and I agree. Once we got started, the discussion flew and every point seemed to build value.

I’ll post again later to follow up specific questions raised such as “how can I get started with RSS?”