Big congratulations to Marnie Webb, TechSoup's Co-CEO, who was awarded The 2008 NTEN Award today at the Nonprofit Technology Conference in New Orleans. You can leave her a congratulatory message in the comments of this post, or on her blog, ext337.

Liveblogging morning talk by Deborah Cotton, Editor-in-Chief of Louisiana Rebuilds at 08NTC in New Orleans. Please excuse errors from typing quickly.

The site was created to answer the question, "How do you get info about what is going on in New Orleans to displaced people?" Rather than create separate web sites for city, state, local businesses and nonprofits to post information, the stakeholders began talking to each other and decided to create one web property together.

I'm liveblogging from "Liveblogging: Now You Have a Lot of User Generated Content: Tracking and Using It?" at 08NTC. Please excuse errors from typing quickly.

Eric Erki/Beaconfire Consulting

How many user generators are there? The number of people who routinely create content is really quite small. 90%  are silent. 9% contribute a little. 1% contribute the most. "The Influentials" are about 1 in 10 people.

In this video taken in Tanzania , 9-year-old Glory leads her class in a song about the HIV crisis in her country. We believe this little girl’s song – and other videos and images like this one - have the power to inspire real change. (If you’d like to learn more about Glory, check out her expanded story here.)

Liveblogging "How Do Social Networks Fit Into Your Communications Strategy" by Brian Reich of EchoDitto. Co-author of Media Rules. Please excuse errors from writing quickly.

Why social networks are important: tech is becoming integral to every day life. We want to stay more connected and engaged via tech. Everything we do is informed by social interactions.

Two ways people use social networks:

Hi! I'm liveblogging from the Nonprofit Technology Conference in New Orleans this week. Here are a few notes from the opening talk by New York Times technologist columnist, David Pogue. (Please excuse errors while writing quickly).

Trend #1: Cell phone + Internet VOIP

Just a quick reminder that if you are at the Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) in New Orleans this week, we're having a casual meetup tonight (Wednesday, March 19th) from 5-6:30 PM at Loa Bar in the International Hotel (221 Camp Street).

We'll be joined by folks from the larger TechSoup community, and the Nonprofits in Second Life community.

Hope to see you there!

Photo by me.