NetSquared teaming up with Sun Microsystems to produce global Hack Days. Sao Paolo, Brazil was a success on October 1, stay tuned for an update. Next up, China!
A BIG congratulations to CompuMentor/TechSoup Co-CEO, Marnie Webb, for being named one of the 50 most powerful and influential people in the nonprofit sector on The Nonprofit Times' annual list. Marnie is one of the driving forces behind TechSoup's NetSquared initiative.
Marnie is a frequent speaker and writer on nonprofits and technology, a founding member of the Nonprofit Emerging Technology Exchange, and an organizer of the NPTech tagging experiment. You can read her NPTech musings on her blog, ext337.
Congratulations, Marnie!
Flickr photo credit: mwebb in someone else's shades by Susan Hellein
Check out the guest column, "Harness the social web before it harnesses you" by our own Marnie Webb in the Philanthropy Journal. Here's a blurb to tempt ya:
To make these tools work for you, you need to follow two key guidelines:
Check out more of the Conference session videos online at ForaTV. You can view them all as thumbnails in the archive here: http://fora.tv/fora/search.php?searchid=79
Or go to each individual new session link below: Conversation with Angela Glover Blackwell, moderated by Daniel Ben-Horin, President & Co-CEO of Compumentor.
The Distributed Grassroots Marketing Team: Letting Your Community, Advocates, Evangelists, and Fans Do the Heavy Lifting featuring panelists Tara Hunt, Chris Messina, and Elisa Camahort with moderator Marnie Webb, VP of Knowledge Services at Compumentor.
The $100 Laptop: Simplicity Can Be Complicated featuring panelist Michael Bletsas with moderator Michael Brown.
Again, thanks to LinkTV for their tireless video coverage of the event. <

You can hear an interview by Harry Osibin (pictured left) with CompuMentor's Vice President of Knowledge Services, Marnie Webb on the Harry O Show at harryo.org.