I spoke this morning at the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits‘ Message+Medium+Message Technology+Communications Conference on “Web 2.0″ (and how yeah, there wasn’t really an upgrade but it’s a philosophy on utilizing the strengths of the medium.) The photo above was 40 minutes before it filled up.
It was good to meet Beth Kanter, who had a great turnout and Peter Fleck who also got a good turnout. I suddenly got a ton of new Twitter friends from the conference and I never mentioned Twitter once!
Good to see some old friends and meet some new ones too.
It humored me that when I was using Parents for Ethical Marketing in my presentation the woman behind it, Lisa Ray, raised her hand to let me know she was in attendance. (Good thing I was using her online presence as a good example!)
It was especially funny for me to have Erin Stojan add me on Twitter and then for me to realize she was sitting a couple rows in front of me. I haven’t met anyone in quite that manner before: getting connected on an online social network as the first point of contact even though you’re in the same room. So we met in real life a few minutes after we connected online first. (The world we live in now!)
Overall from the parts of the conference I attended it’s something I’d absolutely recommend for non-profits next year.
If you attended my session, I had a good time and I hope you enjoyed it as well. I didn’t get to answer everyone’s questions and I didn’t get to meet everyone that tried to talk to me afterwards. If you were there, please comment to say hi or feel free to contact me directly. For a few of you, it might be your first time commenting on a blog. I say go for it!
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Really wish I could have made your presentation but I was still cleaning mine up. Thanks for the photo link!
Posted 27 Mar 2008 at 20:33 ¶It was a pleasure to meet you too!
Posted 27 Mar 2008 at 21:39 ¶Yeah, it was funny for me too, Aaron! Never had that happen before either. Nice to meet you, all the same!
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