Going to the Nonprofit Technology Conference in New Orleans?

Want to meet members of the NetSquared, TechSoup and Nonprofits in Second Life community? Join us for cocktails on Wednesday, March 19th from 5-6:30 PM at Loa Bar in the International Hotel (221 Camp Street). We'll be meeting in the "altar" area.

It's super close to the Sheraton New Oreans (where NTC is being held). Here's a Google Map of the two locales.

It looks kinda fancy, so bring your party shoes!

Big thanks to all the New Orleans natives who gave us suggestions for a venue!!

Flickr Photo Credit: New Orleans by Alejandro Forero Cuervo.

Susan Tenby, the Senior Manager of Online Community Development for TechSoup, and I are working out the details for the NetSquared/TechSoup/Nonprofits in Second Life meetup at NTC in New Orleans.

I'm talking to a bar near the hotel about our meeting up on Wednesday, March 19 at 5 PM. I need a general headcount. Please post a comment below or send a tweet to @netsquared if you might stop by.

Thanks!

Hey Net2!

How many of you are going to NTC, NTEN's Nonprofit Technology Conference in New Orleans March 19-21? I'll be there and so will Susan Tenby, TechSoup's Senior Community Manager.

This is the first part of a rant I have been mulling over for about 3 years now. I want to get it up before the end of the event, so I will save my proposal for a second post.

Advanced nonprofit technology practitioners need a place to connect and learn from each other. Who will fill this gap?

For years this was the collective whine from the hundreds of NTAPs who attend the Nonprofit Technology Conference to help other colleagues in the sector. When NetSquared was announced in 2005, I was excited to hear they would be bringing together the best minds from the nonprofit world with the leading technologists. Would this be the long-awaited venue for advanced "NPTECH" conversation?

If you are going to NTEN's Nonprofit Technology Conference in DC next month, you'll have a chance to meetup with NetSquared folks at Net Tuesday DC the night before, Tuesday, April 3rd at 7 PM.

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

Check out the cool Frappr map that the Nonprofit Technology Conference is using to help attendees find out who is coming and to make connections even before the conference starts.   Attendees can create a profile, add themselves to the map, participate in forums and post photos.