Today is a BEAUTIFUL day in New Orleans. It is perfect weather and even more perfect since I got a call from back home in Chicago saying they are expecting snow. Ha! Suckers.
The Nonprofit Technology Conference has been super so far. Yesterday, David Pogue from the New York Times (and lots of books) did the keynote. It was very entertaining.
I did two sessions yesterday. The first was about video centered microsites. The second about nonprofits using online video for fun and fundraising. I will be sharing some video from those sessions as well as session materials next week when I have time.
Modern technology being what it is, you can see David Pogue’s music from yesterday for yourself.
I am in New Orleans at the Nonprofit Technology Conference, run by our trade association, NTEN - the Nonprofit Technology Network. There are something like 1,200 people at the conference this year, an amazing turnout. Holly Ross is the very capable Executive Director of NTEN and I interviewed her about the conference. She talks about David Pogue who is the keynote tomorrow and other highlights of the conference.
I just arrived at the Nonprofit Technology Conference in New Orleans. I am very excited to be here and I will hopefully be taking a lot of pictures and video and blogging when I have some free minutes.
It is great to be out of the still freezing Chicago and I am looking forward to meeting with many of the 1,200+ folks who have come to talk about what technology can do for nonprofit organizations.
We are getting very excited about the conference this week. See3 will be all over the place. Look for us at the Science Fair, and you can join one of my two sessions on Thursday. The first session is at 10:30 and is called:
We pleased to have a special guest at this session. Steve Grove runs the YouTube Nonprofit Program and will be joining me at my session to talk a little about their program as well as give some tips for nonprofits in how to make the most of YouTube.
And then, on Friday we will be announcing the winner of the DoGooderTV Nonprofit Video Awards. Wow! We had 160 entries this year. We have three categories. And holy smokes it’s exciting. You can vote for your favorite up until Thursday night.
If you will be at the NTC please find me and say hello.
David Pogue, who I will see this week in New Orleans when he gives the keynote at the Nonprofit Technology Conference, is very bullish on the iPhone. If this is what it could be, it will be another important way nonprofits will be communicating with their constituents (as if we don’t have enough to do.)
The idea here is that any programmer can now write software for the iPhone. Not illicit, hacky apps like people have been writing so far, but authorized, tested, legitimate software, much of it free, that can tap into all the features of the iPhone.
About two-thirds of the way into it, you can see demos of five iPhone programs that software companies came up with when given two weeks with the SDK. There was an AIM chat program, a sales-force automation tool, and so on, all good-looking and natural-feeling on the touch screen. And there was an Electronic Arts game that exploits the iPhone’s accelerometers, which detect how you’re tilting the iPhone in any dimension; in this game, you navigate the 3-D world by tipping the iPhone forward, back, left, right, up or down.
I can’t tell you how huge this is going to be. There will be thousands of iPhone programs, covering every possible interest. The iPhone will be valuable for far more than simple communications tasks; it will be the first widespread pocket desktop computer. You’re witnessing the birth of a third major computer platform: Windows, Mac OS X, iPhone.
This is a great widget made with the Sprout technology. Sprout is a tool that lets you easily build your own widget.
What I love about this widget is that it includes a link to video — using the See3 logo as the key. Check out the menu on the right side. If you are going to the NTC in New Orleans, let me know, would love to see you. And if not, you should!
