In addition to running a youth organization or a job training program or an environmental advocacy campaign, you are also running an information and technology system on which you do your work. At the 2009 NTEN conference session on cloud computing, we heard examples of shared evaluation tools, databases of indicators that are being shared across networks of organizations, and cloud-hosted client intake forms that allow addiction programs to store their intake documents and aggregated reporting data in one place. Lucy Bernholz, Blueprint R+D Once Once upon a time, just

We were a small organization and most of us were parents. If you do advocacy work, or promote/cover events, you can use a virtual office setup to work and live blog/Tweet from the field. Since my brick-and-mortar nonprofit org closed its doors, I have been working exclusively virtually, mostly with people who live on the opposite coast. I

Judging by the conversations at this conference, those working in human services, policy advocacy and political activism need to pay close attention to what is happening here. This being an unconference, it aimed to self-organized by interest and we started by everyone giving a three words introduction of their background and interest. (Mine We have business, economic, environmental and other data that “Change” may not be coming to Washington as fast as we expected a year ago. Yet at the grass roots level, in the technology realm, something is definitely happening, and its going