Greetings NetSquared citizens. My name is James Vito Palazzolo and I’ve just joined the blogging team that brings you relevant content about tech tools, interviews with non-profit personnel leading the charge merging tech and communications, theoretical concepts regarding the past/present/future of non-profits, and many more topics.

My interests with non-profits – beyond the bedrock of helping those in need – is perhaps more on the administrative/project management side of the house with a dash of the theoretical conversation for means of generating practical results. That is to say, I enjoy beginning and coordinating conversations that bear proactive fruits, not just more conversation.

My work history with non-profits involves marketing work with St. Mary’s Food Bank and the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Arts. Besides that, in recent years I’ve worked in public relations at Riester-Robb in Phoenix (now Riester) and Arizona State University as the communications coordinator for the university technology office where I got to do an abundance of exciting projects like working with Google, Apple, Dell, Qwest, Verizon, Canon and the entire ASU community to develop and promote programs that make complex technological systems more stable, flexible, nimble and simply less-frustrating to use.

While some tech-meets-communications people discuss the topic of Usability (making certain a system is usable after it has been released) and/or Sustainability (maintaining the status quo), I’m more interested in Habitability– making systems more like habitats that humans live with and within, so that as our needs change, the systems were pre-planned to be ‘organic’ enough to accept change quickly and nimbly. The open-source community behind WordPress is a good example of a Habitable community. This topic of Habitability, especially regarding wikis and blogs, is the focus of my master’s work which I defended just 3 weeks ago.

Other than all that, I currently run Insomniac, LLC - Ceaseless Communications Consulting, a new media and traditional model consulting firm for marketing/communications purposes and am an associate consultant with Noel Levitz. I write fiction, adore Magritte’s art, live in Arizona, admire indoor plumbing, and generally try to make the world a better place than it was the day before. I’m excited to be involved here in a community of practice where every day and every decision means people are working to help other people using technological means of communications and administration.

Thanks for reading this far and I look forward to generating conversation that gets practical results for all of you. Peace…James