As I wrote this post on the flight back from my third NTEN Conference I know I felt similar to many of the other 1,600 “NPTechies” (Nonprofit Techies) who are leaving San Francisco. So, allow me this chance to glow in the softer side of nonprofit technology and share some of my favorite moments of the 2009 NTEN Conference. MORE >>

Source:  Dollar Bin, Flickr In February, I'll be co-teaching the " WeAreMedia Live " intensive two-day workshop in San Francisco from NTEN.   The goal is to help participants create a social media strategy AND take a deep dive into the tactics and tools of social media.   Here's a roadmap and worksheet to do just that!  Resources. MORE >>

This last week I was at NTC 09 in San Francisco leading a session on Mapping Metrics To Strategy.  And while Lucy firmly believes that it is possible to measure, sometimes people measure the wrong thing. Several of us disagreed with the thesis money was the only one metric for success.  There's a lot of great stuff in this deck.  MORE >>

Twitter has been used during the G20 protests , election monitoring and crowd-sourcing the location of a torch when it was passing through San Francisco.   And seasoned practitioners are debating whether a particular social media tool is in and of itself a strategy.   Fire, for instance, was a society-changing tool. The alternative? MORE >>

The opera will be performed throughout the weekend of Deloitte Ignite (4, 5, 6 September 2009).  They're A few months back, the San Francisco Symphony used YouTube to crowdsource auditions for a mashup peformance.   Photo by 1066. Royal Opera House  is crowdsourcing the storyline for an opera on  Twitter  in a month's time.  (Hat MORE >>