501 Tech Club
Since March I’ve been reading nonprofit blogs, going to meetings, scoping RSS feeds, reading Twitter messages, emails, and all kinds of stuff to educate myself. I think it’s working! Today I feel able to have a fluent conversation with someone who knows what they’re talking about in the nonprofit technology space, and only minorly expose my lack of familiarity.
Tonight I went to the Austin 501c Tech Club and…holy cow, the last time I went apparently I posted about it on the Causeway blog and that’s the first hit on Google. Zounds! Oh, it’s actually the Austin 501 Tech Club, that’s why. I misspelled crystal as “chrystal” (don’t ask) once and it was one of the higher hits for “chrystal meth” back in the day.
Anyway, it was a really good small discussion, led by Mike Chapman, wide ranging. We talked about political activism and social media, Mike described structurally what the Obama Campaign did and didn’t do, and provided very solid timeline context. This guy was there too, and I have a feeling our interests overlap quite a bit.
This morning I was pleased to find a second nugget from the Social Actions Blog, this time relating to FrontlineSMS, which I hadn’t heard of before, or I have heard of and I’ve forgotten about it and e-mailed the link to the people who told me about it, which is kind of embarassing in a very internet kind of way. There is a community of people out there, I’d lump TxtEagle in with them, who are out there polishing their cell phones on the very bleeding edge of technology while helping bridge the widest of economic gaps – highly commendable.
There were some other things I set aside to share with you, the zero people or possibly Jake (and Amanda, who was offended last time she wasn’t mentioned personally) who read this blog, but my usually trusty XP x64 cratered this afternoon while I was unloading 1,100 lbs of gravel into the front yard along with a 305 gallon rainwater tank.
In case anyone is wondering the weight limit for safe operation of a 1986 Ford Ranger is substantially less than 1,100 lbs of cargo. She swims to and fro all over the road!
