Reflections on NTC: From techie to leader

One of the sessions I attended at NTEN’s NTC last week was about moving from the position as “the techie” in your organization to being a real “leader.” It was an interesting topic and I thought a very valuable issue. Linda Widdop, Dir. of Tech Services/Consulting, and Dean Graham, Manager of App. Services, both from [...]

March 30, 2008 2 comments CONTINUE READING THIS ARTICLE…

LIVE from NTC: E-advocacy

One last live blog from the NTC here in New Orleans. Click on the link below if you want to follow along with (or read the archive of) E-Advocacy: Mission over Membership with Charles Lenchner, Colin Delany, Jonan Compitello, Farra Trompeter: Click here to follow the live blog!

March 21, 2008 2 comments CONTINUE READING THIS ARTICLE…

LIVE from NTC: Targeting your message

I am going to live blog another session from today’s NTC here in New Orleans. Click below to follow along live (or read back from the archive) of Targeting Your Message: Values-Based Segmentation and Communication Strategies for Nonprofits with representatives from McQueen Morrow Associates: Click to follow the live blog!

March 21, 2008 1 comment CONTINUE READING THIS ARTICLE…

LIVE from NTC: Online community building

I am going to try out the newly released tool CoverItLive to cover what should probably be a terrific panel here at NTEN’s NTC. If you would like to follow along live with me or read back over the live transcript of the Building, Growing, and Sustaining a Vibrant Online Community – How to Reach [...]

March 21, 2008 2 comments CONTINUE READING THIS ARTICLE…

NTEN’s NTC: Day 1 lots of humans

Here I am at NTEN‘s NTC in New Orleans. It was a HUMONGOUS hassle trying to get out here as the flights from everywhere were delayed, canceled, and rerouted because of the weather in Texas (the major hub most of us were connecting through), but we all made it and are so excited to be [...]

March 20, 2008 1 comment CONTINUE READING THIS ARTICLE…

Social Innovation Review’s newest blogger: Me!

The Stanford Social Innovation Review has a corps of bloggers that post ideas, conversations, and thoughts on philanthropy and the nonprofit sector. It is a wonderful place to listen to great thinking, read through the comments, or become part of the conversation. I have been following their bloggers for a while now, and am now [...]

March 17, 2008 3 comments CONTINUE READING THIS ARTICLE…

Let’s connect in New Orleans!

Are you headed to the NTC? NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology Conference is this week, March 19-21, in New Orleans. There will be a multitude of conversations and connections in addition to the fabulous line up of panels and workshops. I’m thrilled to be headed down tomorrow, in time for the Day of Service program where conference [...]

March 17, 2008 2 comments CONTINUE READING THIS ARTICLE…

How to close the gaps: leadership and social media

Recently, Inside Philanthropy, the blog for the Philanthropy Journal, posted about a fairly popular conversation topic: The nonprofit leadership gap. Research is coming out that predicts a large depression of leaders in the nonprofit sector as the baby boomers go into retirement. There have been many confirmations of this and less strong, concrete ideas for [...]

March 12, 2008 5 comments CONTINUE READING THIS ARTICLE…

Flickr for nonprofits!

Flickr and TechSoup Stock have teamed up to offer Flickr pro accounts to nonprofits! I have blogged before about ways nonprofits can use Flickr and it was a topic of great discussion when I have thought about social media implementation with folks at organizations like the Cendar Sinai Park here in Portland. It is a [...]

March 6, 2008 1 comment CONTINUE READING THIS ARTICLE…