I am planning to launch a companion blog to Get Real, one that will explore the same sorts of memes and themes we cover here -- social, collaborative, and real-time technologies and their impacts on business and society -- but with a different perspective.

I hope to get dozens (hundreds?) of detailed how-to guides written, that will provide step-by-step, in depth descriptions of the practical application of these technologies. For example, I intend to write "Instant Messaging Etiquette: A Get Real Guide" as one of the inaugural pieces. But I don't plan to write all of these pieces myself, or just with current Corante contributors. I invite Get Real readers to come up with proposals on guides they wish had existed before they figured out (painfully, and after a serious investment of time), such as these:

• how to get the Fire instant messaging client to work with Ubergroups (sketched out here), or
  
• how to connect your Mac via Bluetooth to the Cingular data network on the Sony Ericsson T637 phone (which I mentioned here, after I discovered that Apple, Cingular, and Sony Erricsson had no guidance to give on the subject), or
  
• how to set up a corporate policy on outside blogging that balances corporate needs and personal freedoms (no one has written one of those that satisfies me, yet).

We are working on a shared compensation model, where we would pay a modest fee for each contribution, plus a share in any advertising/sponsorship revenue at the blog. It won't make you rich, but who knows?

Please email your thoughts, suggestions, and ideas to me, even if you yourself don't want to commit to writing a Guide yourself.