NPTech | Social Signal

as posted on Corante's Civic Minded blog

Where can you find inspiration for online advocacy, guidance for online faclitation, and gossip about online politics? On Tuesday May 30th and Wednesday May 31st, NetSquared is hosting a remote conference featuring live chats and Q&A sessions with leaders from across the nonprofit web.

The remote conference is happening at the same time as a two-day confab in San Jose. After eight months of work on the NetSquared project, I'm heartbroken that I won't be there in person (something about not travelling in the ninth month of pregnancy, mutter mutter grumble) -- and absolutely determined that the online event will be so fabulous that when my colleagues return from San Jose, they're going to be jealous that I was the one who got to hang out in the chat room.

And what better way to get over that morning-after-the-Memorial-Day-before feeling than to spend the day chatting with leaders in nonprofit technology -- leaders like:

• Judith Feder on "Health care and web 2.0 patient communities"
• Rolf Kleef of Greenpeace
• Micki Krimmel of Participant Productions on "Media that Mobilizes: An Inconvenient Truth, ClimateCrisis and more tales from Participate.net"
• Beth Kanter on "Tagging in the Nonprofit World"
  
• Robyn Deupree of Bloglines Lisa Stone of BlogHer
  
• Alexandra Samuel of Social Signal on "Building Online Community: Behind the Scenes at NetSquared"
• Mike Linksvayer of Creative Commons on "Leveraging Technology for Free Culture and Your Nonprofit's Mission"
  
• Enoch Choi of Palo Alto Medical Foundation on "Tech Tools in Medicine: Personal Health Records, Mobile Devices, Blogging,Podcasting, Health Search & Tagging @ Google Co-op"
• Boris Mann from Bryght on "Open Source and your non-profit"
  
• Scott Heiferman from Meetup.com
  
• Nancy White of Full Circle on "Online Facilitation Open Discussion"
• Edward Vielmetti from the University of Michigan School of Information on "Superpatron: viewing libraries from a patron's point of view"

The remote conference is open to anyone with an Internet connection. And feel free to drop by the conference hallway for even more remote conference-y goodness.

At last week's 2006 Nonprofit Technology Conference in Seattle, I sat on a terrific panel led by Matt Blair, with Marnie Webb and Marshall Kirkpatrick, on the security implications of the new web. It was one of those amazing sessions where the audience was so engaged from the start that we had no need for the usual opening-presentations-plus-Q&A structure; we got right into a very cool 90-minute conversation.

I don't think anyone was recording the session, but I thought I'd share the notes I'd prepared for my presentation.

If you know about a great new blogging tool, social networking service, online community mashup or any of the other widgets in the emerging Web 2.0 toolbox... something that non-profit organizations ought to know about too... then why not present it at the NTen Web 2.0 Speed Geek Session on March 24 in Seattle?

It's a whirlwind tour of the latest generation of online tools and services offering organizations the chance to expand membership, intensify member relationships, and engage the public in a whole range of on- and offline activities. Up to 230 participants will work their way around the room in smaller groups for a range of high-speed (five-minute) software and tool demos.

You can be the person behind those services, or just an avid user with a compelling story to tell about them. Either way, if you're going to be at NTen, we want to hear from you. The session is limited to the first 12 presenters accepted, so please get in touch today.

• Register to present at the Web 2.0 Speed Geek Session
• Find out about more Speed Geek Sessions at NTen
• Find out more about NTen