As Paul has said, at the focus group day we played a version of the social media game originally developed with my colleague Drew Mackie, and enhanced by Beth Kanter and others.
The way it worked, to summarise, was:

1. We split into two groups, and each invented a scenario. As Paul reported, these were a small village fighting for sustainability, and a large network of parish and town councils. The instruction was, "make it challenging because the other group will be solving the problems and looking at how social media can help". (Of course the catch is that you inherit the other group's challenges!).

This weekend I was at BarcampUkgovweb, a get-together of civil servants developing Government web sites and online services, with the consultants, contractors and freelances who work with them. Or would like to!

Congratulations Simon, Paul and the rest of the team on asking partners, subscribers and everyone else interested for ideas on developing Ruralnetonline.
To help do that, how about we think of some typical situations where organisations, groups or individuals have a communication or collaboration need that could be satisfied by Ruralnetonline.