Association Experiments With Virtual Conferences

August 20, 2009 | Read Time: 1 minute

The Nonprofit Technology Network, which organizes an in-person annual meeting, is trying something a little different. Next month it will hold a two-day Online Nonprofit Technology Conference.

“We’ve been told that it can cost too much to fly across the country and stay in a hotel,” Holly Ross, the organization’s executive director, wrote in an e-mail message announcing the new event.

Scheduled for September 16 and 17, the conference will run from 9 a.m. to roughly 1:30 p.m. Pacific time. The cost for the online event is $250 for members of the Nonprofit Technology Network and $350 for nonmembers.

For more information: Go to http://www.nten.org.

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NICOLE WALLACE

Features Editor

Nicole Wallace is features editor of the Chronicle of Philanthropy. She has written about innovation in the nonprofit world, charities’ use of data to improve their work and to boost fundraising, advanced technologies for social good, and hybrid efforts at the intersection of the nonprofit and for-profit sectors, such as social enterprise and impact investing.Nicole spearheaded the Chronicle’s coverage of Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts on the Gulf Coast and reported from India on the role of philanthropy in rebuilding after the South Asian tsunami. She started at the Chronicle in 1996 as an editorial assistant compiling The Nonprofit Handbook.Before joining the Chronicle, Nicole worked at the Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs and served in the inaugural class of the AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps.A native of Columbia, Pa., she holds a bachelor’s degree in foreign service from Georgetown University.