I'm rapidly trying to get the Enfusion Network website ready to go live in the next few weeks. The first Enfusion Network online conversation is due on Friday, and if I can, then I'd like to have the site ready for sign-ups by then.

In getting all this up and running I'm trying to get the right mix of tools to help support a community of youth participation practioners and consultants to:

• Connect

• Share Knowledge

• Share Questions, Reflections and Sollutions

The idea of The Enfusion Network as a community is really important to me. In my experience so much good participation work goes on and so many good resources are out there - but so little time and space is available for reflection, sharing ideas and making sense of all that material.

That is why I've tried to bring together areas of The Enfusion Network site to help participation practioners and consultants find one another and communicate (the profiles), to share news of what they have been up to (the blogs and the project spaces (coming soon..)) and to make sense of the wide range of resources out there (the resource library).

I've tried to mix structured 'categories', and a 'folksonomy' tagging system together in the site - so that we can develop a shared vocabulary for talking about our field, and so that individual members of the network can post and make sense of content that falls beyond the more obvious boundaries and well trodden paths of engagement and participation.

Thanks to Sarah's and Tom's ideas and input I'm working hard on preparing a wiki like space to further allow us to capture our knowledge outside the formal categories of a resource directory...

The site, as it launches, will only be a starting point - ready for evolution and change. As I seek to play the role of technology steward [1] [2] for the network (co-stewards welcome) I realise that I don't really know what shape the community is going to take - and so the technology and the community will be co-creators of each other...

I'm looking forward to the journey :)