I'm Sean Stannard-Stockton, author of the Tactical Philanthropy blog and founder of Tactical Philanthropy Advisors, a philanthropy advisory firm that serves individual and family philanthropists.

I'd like to offer a big thank you to the NetSquared community. In 2006, I was an executive at a wealth management firm that focused on serving philanthropists. I knew next to nothing about social media. Luckily I attended the first NetSquared conference, which was designed to bring together technology experts with nonprofit and philanthropy professionals to figure out how the nonprofit world could leverage social media tools. In a series of breakout sessions, Seth Mazow (then author of the Interplast blog) and Elisa Camahort (one of the founders of BlogHer), taught me how to launch a blog.

Now, three years later, the Tactical Philanthropy blog I launched after the conference has become a full fledged company providing advisory services to high net worth donors.

Thanks so much to the many NetSquared Community members like Beth Kanter, Britt Bravo, Daniel Ben-Horin and Amy Sample Ward who have helped me understand the power of social media. The community was instrumental in the creation of my blog and the resulting company.

Thank You!