[rtpnet-tact] Good conference in April in DC

[Judy Hallman]

To RTPnet Advisors and TACT list:

I like the looks of the NTEN conference in Washington, DC, April 4-6
(see http://nten.org/ntc). I plan to go and thought some of you might 
also be interested in it.

For those of you who attend CTCNet conferences, the NTEN conference 
could be a good replacement.

Registration cost for members before January 15 is $299. (NTEN
membership for individuals is only $25/year.) The room rate is
$139/night. Registration goes up $100 Jan 16 to Feb 28 and another $100
after Feb 28.

I've been to two NTEN conferences. The content and speakers are very
good. Attendance has grown rapidly -- about 300 in 2004 -- they expect
about 1,000 this year. It's nice to have it close to the Triangle area
this year.

*** Speakers include:

  - David Geilhufe, Managing Partner, CivicSpace (perhaps an opportunity
to talk with him about CivicSpace on Demand and CiviCRM)

  - John Kenyon (conducted an Open Source Content Management System
Workshop for RTPnet in November)

  - Ruby Sinreich (founder and editor of OrangePolitics.org)

*** There are about 75 topics for the breakout sessions. Some that look
particularly interesting to me include:

- Comparing Open Source CMS Tools, Laura Quinn / Idealware

- Data Integration: What is an Open API and what difference can it make?
Usha Venkatachallam / Beaconfire Consulting

- Disaster Preparedness Today, Tim Johnston / NPower Greater DC Region

- Evaluating Client Tracking Software, Steve Heye / YMCA of the USA

- How to Keep Your Volunteers Coming Back for More: Volunteer Management
systems and how they can increase your volunteer retention, Katherine
Ann Watier / Points of Light Foundation

- Increasing Your Email Delivery Rate, Adam Bernstein / Electric Embers
Cooperative, Inc.

- Lessons without Borders: Reaching people where theyre at with text
messaging, George Irish

- Lessons Without Borders: Virtual Desktop Support and Maintenance,
William Lester / EngenderHealth

- Let Your Stakeholders Mouse do the Walking: Customer service through
database and website integration, Peter Scott Campbell / Goodwill
Industries of San Francisco

- Looking to 2008: Online Advocacy Strategies, Jo Lee / CitizenSpeak

- Make Your Newsletter Work Better. Proving and proven techniques, Kate
Bunting / CARE

- New Approach to Social Change: Technology and the Social Entrepreneur,
Carolyn D. Woodard / Ashoka: Innovators for the Public

- No Strings Attached: How municipal wireless will change the way you
create social change, Karen Archer Perry

- Online Collaboration Tools for Effective Management, Peter Crosby /
International Rescue Committee

- Social Networking for Good: How LinkedIn and MySpace can be used to
change the world, Jonathon D. Colman / The Nature Conservancy

- The Community Driven Nonprofit: Web 2.0 Applied, Marnie Webb / CompuMentor

- The Future of Nonprofit Technology, Martin Kearns and Ruby Sinreich /
Green Media Toolshed

- User-centric web publishing: Using RSS, tags, and microformats to give
your stakeholders the content they want, Alexandra Samuel / Social Signal

- Web 2.0 for Communities, David Geilhufe

- What Your Stakeholders Arent Telling You: How to use web statistics
to read between the lines and build a better relationship, Jordan
Dossett / Antharia

- You Don't Have to Know Everything, Just What to Ask, Mr. John Kenyon /
John A. Kenyon Technology Consulting
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Judy Hallman (hallman at rtpnet.org, http://www.rtpnet.org/hallman)
Executive Director, RTPnet, NC (http://www.rtpnet.org)