I spent yesterday at a class by information design guru Edward Tufte. The guy is brilliant, I recommend checking out his website if you’re interested in learning about effective quantitiative communication or especially in presentations.
Category: Where’s Ruby
A mini travel journal to track Ruby’s globe-trotting exploits.
First wedding of the year
Brian and I are headed out of town for Alexis and Mike’s Wedding. We have a long drive ahead, but then when it’s done we’ll be in fabulous New York City. Woot!
This is the first of several weddings we’ll be attending this year – not counting our own.
And you’re in our neighborhood and want to do some cat-sitting… well let me know.
See you in Seattle
Next stop on my March Madness World Tour: Seattle and N-TEN’s 2006 National Technology Conference.
I will be leading a panel featuring the illustrious Alexandra Samuel and Victor D’Allant. We will be in the first session of the first day of the conference so don’t misss out. You snooze you lose. 😉
During the same time slot, we are up against a “speed geek” session on Online Advocacy Tools and it appears that the program (at least online) does not list the people behind each session, so please spread the word!
Here’s a rough description:
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A-marching we will go
For the 3rd year in a row (2003, 2004), Brian and I will be joining thousands of others in Fayetteville on the anniversary of the Iraq War. There’s no better place to be than among the veterans and military families and other activists from North Carolina, which dubiously claims to be the “America’s Most Military Friendly State,” – whatever the hell that means.
Last year there were some real spooks taking our pictures, and all I had was my phone to return the favor. This time I plan to bring a real camera and document things more properly.
View from the south
I am loving Montevideo! I am posting pictures daily on Flickr.
March madness
Lest you think that the end of my job at Planned Parenthood meant the end of my globetrotting… I have got my own personal world tour coming up in March. I will be out of town on 3 different trips for a total of 15 days.
- I will be doing a presentation for work on network-centric advocacy for IFIWatchNet, which “connects organisations worldwide which are monitoring international financial institutions (IFIs) such as the World Bank, the IMF, and regional development banks.” This is a great organization that is doing great work, and it’s a great place to apply network-centric thinking.
Oh, and by the way this meeting will be in Montevideo, URUGUAY! It will be a short but amazing trip for me. I have been across the U.S. and I have been to Europe, but this will be my first time in South America, the developing world, or the southern hemisphere of this large planet. I can’t wait to practice my Spanglish, and that’s just the beginning of this short (3 days there, 1.5 days in transit) adventure.
You can learn more about my trip from looking at my ‘montevideo’ bookmarks.
- The same day I get back from Montevideo, I will depart for a 6-day trip to Austin for South by Southwest Interactive. This is one of the most fabulous and creative conferences you can attend, so I’m pretty excited about that.
Plus I get to visit the Texan branch of my family!
- Finally, after 6 days back at home I will fly to Seattle for the National Technology Conference. This is the standard industry conference for nonprofit techies (my peeps). I am looking forward to seeing Seattle for the first time, and to seeing many of my friends who will be there, but after Montevideo and Austin, these 4 days will be a like a restful break for me.
Meanwhile there is a small matter of basketball going on! UNC women are now #1 in the nation, and Ivory Latta can taste the NCAA championship. The men are #2 in the ACC and we’re getting better with every game recently, so I think we could be a contender for that title and should make a strong showing in the NCAA as well. Wish me luck in getting to see any of it. 😉