NTEN Conference in Seattle
by Michael HoffmanSunday, March 26th, 2006
We just got back from the NTEN conference in Seattle. It was great. If you are a nonprofit or work with nonprofits, you should know about NTEN and be a member. NTC – The nonprofits and technology conference is an annual event where folks from all kinds of nonprofit organizations and those that support them gather to talk about trends in technology and how it is impacting the sector.
Last year the conference was in Chicago. Last week it was in Seattle and next year it will be in Washington. The talk of the conference was the whole Web 2.0 phenomenon, with lots of talk about blogging and tags and all that good stuff.
We had the pleasure of dinner (sushi) with Andy Dale, from ooTao who explained what’s happening with emerging standards for identity online. Things seem to be moving quickly in that area.
For us, the agenda was to talk about See3 and what we do – helping nonprofits utilize audio and video and photography in the new broadband web. We also introduced the sector to DoGooderTV, a place to showcase nonprofit media online. It was amazing to me that given the importance of video online – and there seems to be an article everyday about it now – that there was only one session at this year’s conference on anything to do with video, and it was a session that was given last year as well, about the technology of streaming.
My guess is that like Web 2.0 is now the headline at these events, it won’t be long before the theme is video. Nonprofits need to SHOW their work and now have the ability to do so in a way they could never have done before. It was a message that really seemed to resonate in Seattle.
See you at next year’s conference.
