Presenters: Ryan Ozimek, PICnet; Jessica Baumgart, Consultant; Ben Sheldon, CTC Vista; and Justin Perkins, Care2.com

Audience: Non-technical

Many nonprofits are now using innovative technologies like blogs, tagging, social networking, and online mapping to increase awareness, mobilize their constituencies, and raise funds on a shoestring budget. This workshop will showcase some of the tricks available to grassroots group, like setting up a content management system, putting RSS feeds on your web site, and using tagging and mapping to make your web site more visible and useful. This workshop will feature Blogging expert Jessica Baumgart from Harvard, Mapping expert Ben Sheldon from the CTC VISTA project, and CMS service provider Ryan Ozimek of Picnet, Inc.

Keep it Simple CMS
Ryan will be laying out a discussion on how organizations can rise above the chatter and get what they really need: usable and affordable Web sites to better interact with their supporters.

Ryan will give a short presentation of Non-Profit Soapbox, which is a new breed of open source content management systems that are provided to small and mid-sized organizations without the frustrations of installation, IT infrastructure, and support headaches.

Additionally, Ryan will provide an overview of how organizations can get their Web site up to speed with effective new technologies, without getting stuck in the Web 2.0 hype machine.