Chris Pirillo and Ponzi Indharasophang are currently organizing the 6th annual Gnomedex tech conference, a successful and unusual part of the tech conference scene. Chris is the founder and tech evangelist of the online publishing group Lockergnome. Ponzi is the CEO of Lockergnome, a producer of various multimedia and a member of the Blogher community.

I caught the two of them at SXSW and asked them to tell me what they've learned about conference organizing in a Web 2.0 world. READ MORE

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If you're going to N-TEN's Nonprofit Technology Conference next week, be sure to go to the NTC Net2 Meet up on March 22nd and to go hear some great speakers from CompuMentor:

Age of Openness: Engaging Constituents with User Driven Technologies
Lynn Stott, Director, TechSoup
March 23
10:30 AM

Ramifications of Web 2.0: How Participatory Applications Will Impact Networks and Security
Marnie Webb, Vice President, Knowledge Services, CompuMentor
(Marshall Kirkpatrick and Rob Cottingham will be on this panel as well)
March 23
1:30 PM

The Blogging Revolution: Current Practices that Can Make Blogging Work for Some Nonprofits
John Lorance, Associate Director, TechCommons
(Beth Kanter, Nancy White and Marshall Kirkpatrick will be on this panel, as well)
March 24
10:30 AM

Speed Geek Product Demos: Web 2.0 Applications
Marnie Webb, Vice President, Knowledge Services, CompuMentor
March 24
1:30 PM
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Get together and talk NetSquared the night before NTC starts. Join others for talk of emerging technology and nonprofits, as well as the friendly rubbing of shoulders and great clams .... Get more details from here.
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Today this post comes to you courtesy of the email center in the middle of the tradeshow floor here at SXSW. It's Day 3-- and the weather is cooling just a bit before our last day tomorrow. Though "cool" is definitely a relative term, considering I read something about yesterday about SNOW in the Bay Area...

Last night I had the pleasure of meeting another member of the Net2 Community-- web consultant, Alexandra (many of you know her as "Alex") Samuel. We all gathered, in web 2.0 appropriateness, at the Yahoo!, Delicious, Flickr party at the Iron Cactus, an Austin staple on 6th St. Billy, Marshall, Alex and I enjoyed the open vibe and the open air of the 2nd floor patio.                                           READ MORE