My summary view is that we activated and energized our network, borrowing those terms from Zita Joyce, my outreach co-worker for the week whom I quizzed endlessly about what it’s like to live in Amsterdam. It was a productive and exciting week for a fledgling non-profit like FLOSS Manuals. We have a pile of work […]
Stories from SXSWi 2008 – Future of Volunteerism
I can’t believe it, but SXSW Interactive rolls around again this weekend. I found still-unpublished notes from last year’s Future of volunteerism, Adapt or Die session. Woops! They’re sloppy but fun to revisit so I’ll go ahead and post. Virtual Relay for life – awareness, advocacy, fundraising running in parallel, not a replacement complementary – […]
12 Networks, One Camp
Last night we all gathered in a movie theater setting and each network attending Winter Camp gave a five minute presentation about their network and each member introduced themselves, in English, even though only a handful of the 160 people here speak English as a first language. I was both humbled and in awe of […]