Tag: conference

GETTING EXCITED FOR BLOGHER

Imgoingo7 Boy is this getting exciting!  I’ve been on real deadline rollercoaster and will continue to be but seeing BlogHer at the end of the tunnel makes the journey easier.  If you haven’t gone in the past, I’d give it a try – last year was a real blast.  Here are a couple of photos from then – just to inspire you (Oh and this is not a commercial; no one asked me to write this…)  I think I downloaded most of them from Flickr so they’re borrowed – but fun.

Cooper_jennifer_lauck_mary_tsao Here’s Cooper Monroe (Been There and The Motherhood), Jenny Lauck (Three Kid Circus) and Mary Tsao (Mom Writes)

Lunch_time Posting during lunch.

Come on – it’s really fun and Chicago is a beautiful city.  More here.

PARDON ME, DO YOU THINK THE WEB CAN CHANGE THE WORLD?

NtenI began my day at the plenary session of one of my favorite conferences –NTEN — The Nonprofit Technology Network. It’s a gathering of mostly non-profit activists who use the web to enhance their work. They are sharp, committed and fun.

Nten_weissbergThe main session this morning was off the charts: David Weinberger, from Harvard’s Berkman Center for the Internet and Society.   He nay be the best speaker I ever heard – certainly one of the best.  Of course he’s funny and sometimes outraged – both very good things — but he also offers really thrilling analysis of our lives online and the role of each of us in making the Web what it is, and what it will be.  Read more about him from another admirer, at the conference blog. 

I also popped in at "Using Technology to Support Your Mission." Very cool but it turned out to be techier than I wanted, so wandered around running into people.  This community is so vibrant and purposeful that it’s a wonderful place to hang around.  These are people who don’t think the web can change the world, they know it has.

By the way, beyond what I’m learning in sessions, I can tell you what’s hot by the sessions I couldn’t even get into:  The Age of YouTube: Using Video Online to Reach the Masses and Leveraging the Power of Participatory Media.  Fortunately the YouTube one, at least, was videoed and will appear on the NTEN website where we can attend without sitting in a corner on the floor and sweating from the major body heat surrounding each of us.

Even so, in all it was a great day; sorry this report is so brief.  More tomorrow.