Please send whatever good vibes you can spare to my stepdad who is rapidly dying from cancer, and to my mom and two stepbrothers.
He was diagnosed less than 4 months ago and is now wasting away. I still can only picture him as the very fit and energetic man that I have known for the last 18 years. It’s just stunning.
Woo, circuit riders hit the big time! The long-standing The Dirk Award (named after the fabulous Dirk Slater) now has it’s own website and is taking nominations.
Who’s your favorite circuit rider?
So Ed Batista blogged the same session that I did below. Compare and contrast. It’s sort of funny since a year ago I was being a big thorn in his side about not encouraging blogging and distributed input at this conference.
David Geilhufe asks the perpetual question, “So why is NTEN hellbent on making NTC a tradeshow rather than a national Nonprofit Technology Conference?” Continue reading “Changes”
The session on harnessing networking tools for social change started with Marty‘s standard explanation of the growing power of autonomous social networks. Good stuff.
Continue reading “Networking for social change”
I had an interesting conversation with someone here who said that her boss wanted to strangle Esther Dyson after her talk today. ED had talked about how it’s at least as important for nonprofits to get more efficient, not just to innovate and do new things all the time. She pretty directly said that nonprofits were inefficient and failing to measure and evaluate our work.
Continue reading “Processing Esther”
My colleagues having lunch at the N-TEN NTC.
Discussion: what other cool things are out there and how we can use tools like these in our work…
Continue reading “Ami & Katrin, part 2”
Session on cool new stuff with Katrin and Ami.
Ami says that technology moves forward in spurts. I remember thinking in the 90’s how fast things were changing. My mind boggled at where we might go. But it stopped around 2000. Ami is saying there’s a new spurt of creativity.
Continue reading “Ami & Katrin, part 1”
Esther Dyson’s keynote speech is being done in the format of an interview with Andrew Blau. Having seen her speak once before, I think this format led to more disjointed thought and less big picture, but I’m guessing this was done because Esther just fishished running her own conference, PC Forum.
I’m thinking about morphing tonight’s Poker Night at the NTC into basketball night. I’ll even allow people who don’t root for the ACC to watch – a true model of cultural tolerance. 😉
And if people really got their gambling groove on, we can do a pool with just tonight’s bracket. Any takers? Meet by the registration desk at 8pm.