At the launch of SANGONeT's portal on World Development Information Day (WDID), 24 October 2005 - speaking from Seattle in the United States, non-profit online specialist, Michael Gilbert of the Gilbert Center, talked to more than eighty South African delegates located in Durban, Johannesburg and Cape Town via a digital video conference link, about the practices of Weblogs and Wikis as some of the most exciting new tools to promote leadership and collaboration in development as well as advance alternative views.