Last year when I was elected to the Board of Directors of the Web Analytics Association (Social Media Committee Director) my newly formed committee started with a few missions, one to draft Social Media Standards (right now Social Media and Standards Committee are working on this jointly).
Met with Gary Angel soon after, and in New York City (where I live) I made this movie which records one of the moments we spoke about drafting standards (but how - with what?)
After that, we started talking about drafting standards but ran into a brick wall - most of the Wiki Software that was out there (we're using MediaWiki now) was not what we needed and the Standards committee recommended Google Group (Documents) as a way to do it (because that's how they were doing their Web Analytics Standards).
But what we wanted last fall happened now - Google Sites Finally Launches and I also made a movie of applying for an account (using Jing), see below. I also wrote about Google Sites and Jing over at The Analytics Guru in a post titled
Google Sites Lauched today