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Social Speech Podcast, Episode 11: Maddie Grant

Maddie Grant of DC-based SocialFish has done a lot of thinking about connecting online audiences with speeches, panels and presentations. More to the point, she’s done a lot of doing, including convening one of the most ambitious online conference approaches I’ve seen: NTC Online, the digital version of the Nonprofit Technology Conference held every year by NTEN.

In our conversation, she offers some great advice for event organizers, speakers and anyone who wants to use digital tools to help online and offline audiences learn. And after you’ve heard our conversation, check out these links:

Social Speech Podcast, Episode 10: Holly Ross

This episode features Holly Ross from NTEN, the Nonprofit Technology Network. She’s a great speaker in her own right – and every year, NTEN hosts the Nonprofit Technology Conference. It’s a huge gathering (but remarkably relaxed and collegial), and we talk about what it takes to connect that many people online at a conference – and how speakers can make the most of a connected audience.

Some links and resources:

 

Cartoon-blogging at NTC 2012

It was another great Nonprofit Technology Conference, my second in San Francisco… and my second cartoon-blogging outing for my friends at NTEN.

This time around, the good folks at Rally – a social fundraising platform, and the folks behind a very cool workspace – sponsored the graphic recording effort.

Which meant there were not one but two pens flying during various keynotes and breakout sessions. My colleague was the amazing Kate Rutter, who manages to combine detail, structure and composition in ways that amaze me. You can see the results of our work here.

I’m pulling together the last of my cartoon-blog images, and I’ll post them here soon. But in the meantime, here are the cartoons I drew from the floor of the conference. They include my notes from the session on social media policy, led by Idealware’s Andrea Berry and Darim’s Lisa Colton and centered around their free social media policy workbook.

Social Speech Podcast, Episode 3: Maggie Fox

This episode: Social Media Group founder and CEO Maggie Fox

Only a few years ago, business – especially non-tech Fortune 500 business – was pretty skeptical about social media. One of the first people to break through that barrier was Maggie Fox, CEO of Social Media group. And she did it by creating solid strategies rooted in tangible business goals, breaking ground with companies like Ford.

Our conversation looks at everything from handling the backchannel to how you can stand out as a smallfrog presented in a big pond conference. And here are some links relating to our discussion:

Also from the podcast: I’m heading to San Francisco for NTEN‘s Nonprofit Technology Conference next week. And I’ll be speaking at Ignite NTC on the social speech. I’d love to see you there!

 

 

Help write the agenda for the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference

SXSW isn’t the only fabulous event whose agenda is partly shaped by audience input. NTEN, the Nonprofit Technology Network, will hold its annual conference next April in Atlanta, Georgia… and they’d like you to help them figure out what sessions to offer.

Head on over here for a list of candidates, and start a-clickin’. And if you’d like to leave comments – suggestions, questions, thinly-veiled requests to be included on the panel – just click on the session title.

As with SXSW, public voting counts for 33% of the final score in deciding which sessions make the grade. (Why only a one-third voice instead of having the community vote carry the day? Because, as the FAQ; points out, “If we did it that way, we’d have 40 sessions on social media, 30 on websites, and a score on e-mail. Yes, we’re ‘How can you have any pudding if you don’t eat yer meat?’ folks”.)

While the deadline for session submissions was September 21, if you’ve had an idea that’s just mind-blowingly fantastic, you can try to talk them into adding it to the 228-submission-long ballot… they’re kind and generous people.

Voting wraps up on October 16, and they’re adopting a strict one-IP-address, one-vote rule to prevent overenthusiasm from skewing the results. So start voting!

(We have two sessions in that list, by the way: Building your social media team and Planning for online engagement – if you think they’d be helpful, we’d love your support!)

Accidental dossiers: privacy and security in the new web

I just posted this at the Social Signal blog. It’s the opening presentation I didn’t end up delivering at the 2006 Nonprofit Technology Conference. Here’s an excerpt:

Think about Web 2.0 – the loose collection of new technologies like blogs, news feeds and the like – and one of the key things that jumps to mind is aggregation. These new technologies allow us to take raw information from disparate sources, and mix and match and mash-up until a whole new picture emerges.

Funny thing: there’s another field where that’s important, where people combine information from different sources to create a new synthesized perspective on a person, issue, organization or event.

It’s called OSINT – open-source intelligence. That term has nothing to do with Linux or the GPL. It’s the practice by intelligence agencies of collecting and analyzing information from publicly available sources.

[....]The more information we ask people to share through community web sites – the more we invite them to tell us – the more exposed they are.

Head over there to see the rest of it.

Circuit riders

Last week at the NTC conference, I kept hearing the term “circuit rider” bandied around. I finally happened to ask the very kind Deborah Elizabeth Finn to relieve me of the burden of trying to bluff my way through those conversations. She obliged with an enthralling account of the rise and eventual transformation of a movement of tech evangelists bringing the gospel of wired wonderment to non-profit organizations.I won’t try to capture it here because a) I can’t remember all the details, b) I’d get some vital stuff wrong and c) I don’t want to deprive Deborah of any reason to tell this story herself; she does it wonderfully. But I do want to thank her publicly, and encourage people to pester her to tell it to them first-hand.