(ISF) Highlights of the Nonprofit Technology Conference in Seattle?

Dear Colleagues,

I'm interested in knowing what NTC attendees thought were
the most
valuable or enjoyable aspects of the event.

Best regards from Deborah

Deborah Elizabeth Finn
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
deborah_elizabeth_finnpost.harvard.edu
http://blog.de
borah.elizabeth.finn.com


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It's decidedly my favorite event.  In random order, here
are my favorite things:

1. Putting faces to the emails and voices that I've been
networking with all year.

2. Sitting down at a table and introducing myself to
whomever is sitting there with reasonable security that
we'll have a rousing conversation going within a few
minutes;

3. Guy's Plenary

4. Paul Lamb's report (on my panel) about using
linkedin.com to establish social networks as a strategy for
getting challenged youth sustainable employment.  Awesome
idea, that hits me where my organization's mission lives.

5. Grokking that Salesforce is not just a CRM system.  It's
the enterprise-class database that we can migrate to, rather
than developing awful in-house Access nightmares.

6. Chatting with everyone I already know about Salesforce,
and a few new people.  But everyone was there: Steve,
Meghan, Meghan, Paul, Rem, Sonny and many more.  It was like
a family reunion.  

7. Eight, count them, eight Goodwill attendees, up from two
of us last year, six Goodwills and the national agency
represented.  Next thing you know, Goodwill will be living
in the 21st century.  

8. Finally getting the NTEN wireless access key that Joe
refused to share!

9. Seattle.  I love Seattle, have lots of friends there
(stayed the weekend to visit).

10. And the best thinga bout the NTC, and NTEN in general:
having a place where I can talk about how I see RSS as a
strategic tool non-profits and not encounter the blank
stares five seconds into my rant.  Knowing that almost
anyone I meet is also stressing about how we measure our
success at deploying street level technology and how we
convince the executives that the medium, while not the
message, is currently more than a medium - it's a strategy
for exposurea nd mission adoption.  NTEN gives me great
tools to communicate strategy back at the office.  It's
great to have a community like this that is focused on the
same things I am.

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It was great to see you there, Peter!  Although I didn't
see you at the Salesforce Foundation's Space Needle
party...was hoping to chat more there, but oh those free
drink tickets got the better of me!

This was my first NTC experience and I was really impressed!
 I have to admit I sort of expected to be sitting at our
booth/table twiddling my thumbs a bit, but it was exactly
the opposite.  We were swamped with good folks and
conversation the entire time at the Science Fair.  Really
great connections with some other software vendors who
certainly have salesforce on their radar and are talking
about possibilities for integrating, which is sooo needed at
this point.

I actually only got to a couple of sessions, as the donut
shop and hallway conversations were equally as useful.

Another person I talked to said they thought the bar had
been raised this year with the Space Needle party as they
had a live band and *a lot* of people were dancing the night
away!  Apparently nonprofit folks can dance, too!  

I had a blast, personally, and will look forward to it again
next year!

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Meghan Morrison, Founder 
Swift River Consulting 
415.508.4486 
meghanswiftriverconsulting.com 
http://www.swiftr
iverconsulting.com 
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Greetings all - I have been a subscriber to this list for
quite some time and find the exchanges quite interesting. I
do hope those who attended the conference in Seattle will
share their experiences there - that was an event that I
truly wish I could have attended.

I have a question that I am hoping someone could help me
with -- we coordinate a network of 25 public internet sites
and have installed a time tracer card in these computers to
reduce maintenance. It works quite well but we are now not
able to find a North America distributor. Would anyone know
where I could get some of these cards?

Trudy

Trudy Beaulne
Executive Director
Social Planning Council of Kitchener-Waterloo/
Community Information Centre of Waterloo Region
300-151 Frederick St. Kitchener ON Canada N2H 2M2
Phone: (519) 579-1096 Ext. 3006
Fax: (519) 578-9185
Email: spckwwaterlooregion.org
Website: www.waterlooregion.org





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I hope that the Technology Conference was inspirational and
encouraged continued on-line networking and collaboration.

I lead the Tutor/Mentor Connection and have been hosting
conferences, web sites, etc. for the past 13  years in an
effort to build what I call a "network of
purpose". At http://www.alado.net/we
bheads you can view a presentation on this topic that I
delivered in the Webheads convergence last November.

The next Chicago conference will be May 25 and 26 and you
can view the speaker list and schedule at http://
www.tutormentorconference.bigstep.com. For those working
with youth, or who focus on building capacity and
distribution of needed services in large geographic areas,
this conference might be interesting to you.

Since 99.999% of the people in the world will never come to
Chicago for the T/MC conference, we've begun to create an
on-line version. The eConference schedule for the May and
June conference is growing. It's at http://www.tutormentorconference.bigstep.com/generic5
4.html

You'll see that MENTOR/The National Mentoring Partnership
and MENTOR EXCHANGE of the National Mentoring Center are
each hosting week long discussions in their portals and that
I'm going to be leading a discussion in the Social Edge
portal.

I'm still adding to this and hope that something will
develop in LearningTimes or TESOL or in other
technology-based networks.

One topic that I feel would be really useful is a discussion
of WEBQUESTS. I think the big challenge for organizations
working with k-12 kids is to motivate youth to use the
computer for learning and enrichment during their free time,
instead of music, games, chat, etc.  I also think the idea
of webquests could be used to draw a youth into the web,
lead them to interesting learning/enrichment activities, and
build motivation to come back to those activities at other
times.  Since many of the people I've met in Webheads and
other technology lists already use webquests, or similar
concepts, my feeling is that a library of proven Webquests
could be created and made available to mentors and tutors
and kids throughout the world.

Is that possible? Is it already happening? Where is it? How
do we teach our volunteers, and parents, to mentor kids to
use these?

If someone would want to develop this into a week long
discussion for May and future eConferences, I think we could
build an audience out of the groups who we'll be reaching
in May and June.

If you have other suggestions for participation in these
conferences, please email me at tutormentor2earthlink.net

Dan Bassill
Tutor/Mentor Connection
http://tutormentor.bl
ogspot.com






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