TechSoup is the organizer of the 2nd year of the NetSquared Conference, a gathering of 350 invited participants that will meet to "accelerate the 21 Projects that have been selected by the NetSquared community as having the greatest potential to leverage the social web to create social change".

You can follow the conference live on twitter and follow on the flickr N2Y2 tag.

Today we started with the welcoming words of Daniel Ben-Horin, founder and CEO of Techsoup/Compumentor. Then the 21 featured projects started pitching their proposal at random. On the first set the audience was presented with XXX

There was also an intervention from Yahoo! vice president of Product Strategy, Bradley Horowitz, On the second set of projects the audience learned about Social Source Commons, Youth Assests, Inovatorz, HELP (a disaster relief innitiative), our partners at Taking IT Global, Farmer 2 Farmer working in Vietnam, Yankana.org from Ecuador.

After the break, we learned about MyKenyanSpace, Grasroots.org, Global Women's Leadership Network, WiserEarth and the Freecycle network, a network of local recycling and gift-culture communities. The project interventions were followed by Mike Yutrzenka, the executive Director of the Cisco Foundation, our host for the conference.

On the final round, we listened to FamilyFarmed.org, Big brothers big sisters and Maplight.org, an organization that tracks the relationship of government groups and policy.

In the afternoon we had the chance to go into three different rooms focused on Social Innovation, Tech innovation and Economic Sustainability, where projects were analysed on greater detail by receiving questions from a panel and the audience. I was most of the time at the Social Impact room, where I understood some of the projects in more detail.

On the second day we continued to explore the different dimensions of the project. At the end of the afternoon the participants voted for their favourite projects and waited briefly for the results. At the end, Maplight.org, Miro and Freecycle.org received the most votes and the supplementary funding offered trough the conference. You can read about the projects and the prizes on the NetSquared community weblog.