OneWebDay
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OneWebDay is a day when users of the World Wide Web are encouraged to show how the Internet affects their lives. The purpose of the event is to globally celebrate online life.
The first ever OneWebDay was held on September 22, 2006. The idea was created by Susan Crawford, who set up the web site, traveled to different cities to encourage people to celebrate OneWebDay, and persuaded the initial group of evangelists to celebrate the day. David Weinberger, Mary Hodder, and David Isenberg (all OneWebDay Board members) were heavily involved in brainstorming about OneWebDay in 2005-06.
OneWebDay will be held on September 22 from now on.
The first OneWebDay's anchor celebration featured Craig Newmark, Scott Heiferman, and Drew Schutte as speakers in New York City's Battery Park.
Other locations with OneWebDay celebrations in 2006 included:
- Austin, TX
- Belgrade, Serbia
- Boston, MA
- All over Canada
- Chambolle-Musigny, Burgundy, France
- Champaign-Urbana, IL
- Charleston, SC and Savannah, GA
- Chicago, IL
- London and other places in the UK
- Los Angeles
- Milano, Italy
- Naples, Italy
- The Philippines
- San Francisco, CA
- Second Life
- Slovakia
- Sofia, Bulgaria
- Tokyo, Japan
- Vancouver, Canada
- Vienna, Austria
- Westport, CT
