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I’m more than a little amazed at how quickly the discussion on microblogging has matured beyond Twitter downtimes.

Here is the definitive list of resources for you to stay op top of the latest trends in microblogging/ microsharing/ presence applications –

Enterprise MicroBlogging

- Laura Fitton’s Pistachio Consulting has an excellent comparison of 19 enterprise micro-sharing tools (based on the microsharing matrix that first appeared at Mashable!)

- Jeremiah Owyang and Laura Fitton are maintaining lists of enterprise micro-blogging tools.

- Pistachio Consulting also has an enterprise microsharing reading list and a blog for enterprise microsharing case studies.

- Peter Kim from Forrester Research has written a report titled ‘Microblogging For Marketers’.

- BusinessWeek has a CEO’s Guide to MicroBlogging.

Open Source MicroBlogging

- John Eckman has a list of open source microblogging tools.

- Evan Prodromou of Control Yourself Inc. (the company behind Identica and Laconica) is promoting the OpenMicroBlogging standard.

General Resources on MicroBlogging

- TwiTip is a blog on Twitter tips run by Darren Rowse from ProBlogger.

- Twitter Facts has great analysis on Twitter, often by country.

Apart from Google’s Project 10^100, I’m also submitting MobiChange at the Knight News Challenge. Here is the full text of my submission to the Knight News Challenge Garage. As you can see, some of the ideas here are based on your feedback on my Project 10^100 submission. As before, I’ll request you to take out ten minutes and share your thoughts on how I can improve my submission,

Describe your project:

MobiChange is a social entrepreneurship venture that will leverage mobile social networking for mobilizing social change.

Even as the ubiquitous use of mobile phones bridges the digital divide between the developed and developed countries, another digital divide — digital divide 2.0 — is opening up between the haves and have-nots. Digital divide 2.0 is not about access to communications devices; it’s about the ability to leverage the power of group-forming social communications technologies to collaborate with others, self-organize into grassroots communities and create crowd-sourced content that is relevant for these communities.

MobiChange will enable disadvantaged communities to benefit from the power of group-forming social networks by bringing these technologies to the $50 mobile phone that can only be used to make voice calls and send text messages.

I’m all set to submit MobiChange to Google’s Project 10^100 (see my earlier post on Project 10^100), but before I hit the submit button, I want to ask for your help in improving the idea. So, here is my complete submission. I’ll be grateful if you take out ten minutes and tell me what you think about it.

- The name of the idea: MobiChange

- The category of the idea: Community

- The idea in one sentence: An open-source mobile social networking platform, accessible by voice and SMS, designed to support local communities and help mobilize social change.

- The idea in more depth: Communications technologies play an important role in development by enabling better economic decisions, building capability at both the individual and the institutional levels, and having multiplier effects across economic sectors. The mobile phone, by the virtue of being the only truly accessible and affordable communications technology available in many developing countries, is increasingly being seen as the key to bridge the digital divide and unlock the economic potential of developing Asia and Africa.