Affiliation:
Computer Care and Learning

Adam Frost works in Boston as a computer repairman, consultant and educator. He strives to do computer repair in the traditions of workmanship and collegiality that one often finds in theater, carpentry, and good health care. You can read about his developing practice at www.ComputerCareandLearning.com. Adam also runs an internship program that trains people to do computer work. He and his team focus on helping organizations develop computer systems and work habits that keep people and their information safe, and that foster good communication, efficiency, and healthy community.

Web Site:
http://www.computercareandlearning.com

Affiliation:
Computer Care and Learning

Adam Frost has worked for the past 15 years as a computer care professional in Boston. He is particularly interested in developing a systematic yet flexible approach to caring for computer systems. In the workshop, he will share this approach, and show how it can help a nonprofit organization strengthen its relationship with its computer helping people, both inside and outside the organization.

Web Site:
www.computerCareAndLearning.com

Affiliation:
Adult Literacy Resource Institute

Akira Kamiya is the Computer Field Technologist for the Adult Literacy Resource Institute (ALRI). The ALRI is the greater Boston office of the System for Adult Basic Education Support (SABES) located at UMASS Boston. Here he has worked since 1999 to help teachers and staff of Adult Basic Education programs integrate technology in the classroom. He formerly was the Program Coordinator and Video Production Training Assistant for Somerville Community Access TV (SCAT).

Web Site:
www.sabes.org/boston

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Kamiya

Affiliation:
Internet Advocacy Center

Alan Rosenblatt is the Executive Director of Internet Advocacy Center , a digital political strategy consulting firm and virtual think tank. He is a frequent speaker and author on issues related to digital media, advocacy, and politics, including social networking, blogging, grassroots, and mobile advocacy strategies. He is also an adjunct professor at American University, where he teaches Internet Advocacy Communications; editor of the Moving Ideas Network (MovingIdeas.org), a social network of non-profit organizations working for social change; Washington Bureau Chief for Media Bureau Networks (MBN), a pioneer in streaming media services; a contributing editor to Politics Online , one of the leading resources for information about digital politics; currently writes three blogs—DrDigiPol .com , Moving Targets, and TechPresident .com ; and serves on the editorial boards of several scholarly journals dedicated to the study of the Internet, politics, and government. He taught Political Science at George Mason University for nine years, where, in 1995, he launched the first cyberpolitics course. With MBN, he webcasted live coverage of and authored one of the first-ever blogs from the 2000 Presidential Conventions. In 2001, he created the Online Advocacy Services division at Stateside Associates. From 2003 to 2005 he trained campaign professionals how to use the Internet to achieve their political goals for e-advocates. Alan Rosenblatt has a Ph.D. in Political Science from American University, an M.A. in Political Science from Boston College, and a B.A. in Political Science and Philosophy from Tufts University. He lives in Arlington, Virginia.

Web Site:
internetadvocacycenter.com

Affiliation:
Constant Contact

Alec Stern, Vice President, Strategic Market Development, is a seasoned senior executive with more than 20 years of experience in senior management, business development, marketing, channel, software, and technology sales. Prior to Constant Contact, Alec held senior positions with Prime and VMARK. At Constant Contact, Alec is responsible for acquiring and managing large, multi-tier partnerships and seeking new, strategic business opportunities for the company.
Alec has been a featured speaker and served on email marketing panels for small business and industry conferences both regionally and nationally. He is also active in the nonprofit community, currently serving on the Board of Directors, Board of Advisors, or Executive Committees for several nonprofits including: The ALLY Foundation; The Better Business Bureau serving Eastern Massachusetts, Maine, and Vermont; Boston Public Library Foundation; The Crohn's & Colitis Foundation; and The New England Technology Foundation. He is instrumental in assisting these nonprofits in many marketing activities including their email marketing strategies. Recently, Alec was the recipient of the Certificate of Appreciation Award from the City of Boston for his outstanding contributions to the Boston Main Streets program and their 19 community districts and small businesses. Alec holds an MBA from Northeastern University and a BS from Syracuse University.

Web Site:
constantcontact.com

Affiliation:
The Nora Theatre Company

Alison Klejna is a graduate student in arts administration at Boston University. She is currently researching and evaluating database and ticketing options for small nonprofit performing arts organizations in order to optimize The Nora Theatre Company's system and prepare for its move to the future Central Square Theater, where it will reside in partnership with Underground Railway Theatre.

Web Site:
www.thenora.org

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Klejna

Affiliation:
Harbinger Partners

Alissa Fencsik is Program Manager at Harbinger Partners, a nonprofit based in Cambridge that works to strengthen other nonprofit organizations by pairing them with teams of skilled corporate volunteers who can help them with tactical projects in IT. Alissa also leads nonprofit clients in technology planning and strategic technology decision-making.

Web Site:
www.harbingerpartners.org

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Fencsik

Affiliation:
IT Consultant

Ben has been building websites since 1995, when a detour in his English degree led to a job helping to build a graduate school's site. Since then, he has worked on hundreds of websites using various technologies, but specializing in XHTML and CSS.

Web Site:
www.tokyoben.net/work

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Di Maggio

Affiliation:
CTC Cista Project

Ben Sheldon currently serves as a VISTA Leader with the CTC VISTA
Project, a national volunteer placement organization. As VISTA
Leader, Ben oversees the development of online collaborative spaces for volunteers to communicate and interact with one another. Prior to being VISTA Leader, Ben developed video sharing tools for cable access television. http://island94.org

Web Site:
ctcvista.org

Affiliation:
CTC VISTA Project | DigitalBicycle Project

Ben Sheldon is currently serving as an AmeriCorps VISTA through the CTC VISTA Project, which connects experienced full-time volunteers with community technology organizations. Ben is currently serving as an Online Community Developer with the DigitalBicycle Project, a media distribution hub for cable access television and video producers.

Web Site:
www.island94.org

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Sheldon

Affiliation:
Boston Main Streets

Brian Goodman is a Business Manager at Boston Main Streets, a program with the City of Boston, and is actively managing innovative technology solutions that impact community, including Mainstreets WiFi (www.mainstreetswifi.com ) and Boston Community Change (www.bostoncommunitychange.org). Brian is also pursuing, in partnership with the Cultural Agents Initiative (www.culturalagents.org) the development of a multistakeholder effort that uses Art and Culture to strengthen community and is working on developing a platform for Boston based collaboration using WiserEarth (www.wiserearth.org).
Brian has been a Peace Corps volunteer in Bulgaria, a entrepreneur, and an MBA student at Babson College. Brian is passionate about systemic solutions that impact society, and has consulted to several microfinance insitutions such as ACCION and Peer Servants.

Web Site:
cityofboston.gov

Affiliation:
Boston Main Streets

Brian is the small business and technology manager of the Boston Main Streets program, helping to implement technology initiatives that impact Boston's neighborhood commercial districts. Brian has a Bachelors in Business Administration from UMass Amherst and an MBA in entrepreneurship from Babson College.

Web Site:
www.bostonmainstreets.com

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Goodman

Affiliation:
Gaia Host Collective

Charles Uchu Strader is a worker-owner of GAIA Host Collective, a cooperatively owned and run Internet hosting company with an environmental and social mission. GAIA Host provides a suite of hosting options, based on open source software, including domain registration, shared server web/email hosting, virtual dedicated servers, and managed dedicated servers.

Web Site:
www.gaiahost.coop

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Strader

Affiliation:
NetCorps

Cheryl Jerozal works at NetCorps, a nonprofit dedicated to making
other nonprofits more effective through the use of technology, where she does all kinds of stuff including creating and leading workshops for nonprofit staff and conducting technology assessments for nonprofit organizations. Cheryl has previously taught computer programming courses to gifted students through Duke University's Talent Identification Program. In addition to gaining insight from her training and nonprofit tech experiences, she has learned about technology as an academic researcher and through her work in industry. She graduated from the Pennsylvania State University with a degree in computer science with honors.

Web Site:
netcorps.org

Affiliation:
NetPragmatics.com

For the past 7 years, Chris has worked for mid-sized non profits, helping them to leverage technology resources in Marketing and Development. He got his start configuring databases, but now Chris focuses on website management. Believing that non profits need better support resources for internet marketing, Chris recently teamed up with Curtis Thomas to form NetPragmatics.com. By helping nonprofits refine their internet goals, focus on results and understand what drives their internet success, Net Pragmatics supports growth of non profits on the internet.

Web Site:
NetPragmatics.com

Affiliation:
CitizenActionTeam.org

Chris Williams is a software and networking consultant with extensive experience in the small business, telecommunications, and financial markets, including in developing markets such as Ghana and Nigeria. He has also worked on several wireless networking projects for the US National Guard. In the wake of hurricane Katrina, Chris built a completely customized web application in less than 3 weeks, which now tracks over 1,000 supplies and services at 400+ facilities in the gulf region.



Contact info for Chris is here.

Web Site:
www.CitizenActionTeam.org

Affiliation:
CitizenActionTeam.org

Christy Barbee is a freelance editor and writer based in Carlisle MA. Although a big user of technology, she is not a techie. She came to Citizen Action Team after hearing Terra Friedrichs on the radio. Technology-enabled tools, such as e-mail, cheap long distance, spreadsheets, and a database, made it possible for her to be highly involved with people on the Gulf Coast without leaving Massachusetts.

Web Site:
CitizenActionTeam.org

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Barbee

Affiliation:
Clif Graves Consulting

Clif has been a computer consultant and programmer since 1993 and has been a FileMaker developer since 1999. He has presented at numerous national conferences, taught from adult education to college level and is a trained TQM Trainer. From 2000 to 2005 Clif was lead developer for ebase.

Web Site:
www.clifgraves.com

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Graves

Affiliation:
NetPragmatics.com

Since 2001, Curtis has been involved in the fields of Web Development and Information Technology. He has a Master’s degree in Information Studies from the University of Texas at Austin, with a focus on Information Architecture and Web Usability. For the past two years, Curtis has been working with nonprofits to solve their Web technology problems, with clients that include the John Wayne Cancer Foundation, the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls, and Medical Teams International. A co-founder of NetPragmatics.com, Curtis is committed to the success of non profits on the internet.

Web Site:
NetPragmatics.com

Affiliation:
The Community Software Lab

At last year's grassroots conference, Dan MacNeil stuttered through a crude powerpoint presentation titled "Paypal doesn't suck". Only about 1/2 the room left before the presentation was finished so it can be counted a partial success. This year Dan is determined to fail quickly if success doesn't look likely.
Despite his many failures, Dan suffers from too much self esteem. Dan enjoys long walks along beaches. He claims his favorite color is blue, but it is really red.

Web Site:
thecsl.org

Affiliation:
Community Software Lab

A stereotypical tech in all areas except introversion, math skills, and personal hygiene, Dan MacNeil unjams printers at night and by day plays at being "Fearless Leader" of the Community Software Lab. He speaks of himself in the third person and expects a tasty free lunch at the conference.

Web Site:
www.thecsl.org

Last:
MacNeil

Affiliation:
Grassroots.org

Dave has been a technivist since 1999, focusing on emerging web technologies for nonprofits and marginalized communities. At Grassroots.org Dave manages client relations (specializing in geek translation), develops training methodology, and frequently talks about content management and internet marketing techniques both in person and online. In past lives Dave worked in website development and internet marketing for the health insurance and mortgage industries, and he has eight years of experience building cool stuff online. One of his recent projects was the guide to nonprofit search engine optimization, at seo.grassroots.org.

Web Site:
grassroots.org

Affiliation:
Shawmut Education

David Pearson is Executive Director and founder of Shawmut Education. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Volunteer Lawyers Project, the Steering Committee of the Massachusetts Client Council, the Boston Society of Architects Task Force to End Homelessness , and the Massachusetts Adult Literacy Technology Team . David's CCTV show, "Homelessness with Hope," interviews state legislators, officials at state and municipal agencies, and members of the homeless community.

Web Site:
www.shawmuteducation.org

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Pearson

Affiliation:
Massachusetts Public Health Association

Eric Weltman is a veteran writer, organizer, and educator based in Cambridge. His accomplishments include leading a successful campaign to close Massachusetts' medical waste incinerators, helping elect the first Latino to the Boston City Council, teaching an urban politics class at Suffolk University, and publishing a cover story on solar energy for "In These Times". Eric is currently deputy director of advocacy and policy for the Massachusetts Public Health Association, is a member of his Democratic Ward Committee, and hosts a show on Cambridge cable access. He conducts trainings on public speaking, using the media, and other organizing strategies.

Web Site:
EricWeltman.com

Affiliation:
Massachusetts Public Health Association

Eric Weltman is a veteran writer, organizer, and educator based in Cambridge. His accomplishments include leading a successful campaign to close Massachusetts' medical waste incinerators, helping elect the first Latino to the Boston City Council, teaching an urban politics class at Suffolk University, and publishing a cover story on solar energy for "In These Times". Eric is currently deputy director of advocacy and policy for the Massachusetts Public Health Association, is a member of his Democratic Ward Committee, and hosts a show on Cambridge cable access. He conducts trainings on public speaking, using the media, and other organizing strategies.

Web Site:
www.EricWeltman.com.

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Weltman

Affiliation:
New England Foundation for the Arts, MatchBook.org

Erin Kunze has been the program assistant for MatchBook.org at the New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA) since fall 2005. Her work with MatchBook.org aims to encourage performing artists to utilize online technologies to advance their work. In this capacity Erin also works with MatchBook.org web developers and partners at the Massachusetts Cultural Council to continuously build the new website as an effective resource for the field.

Web Site:
www.MatchBook.org

Last:
Kunze

Affiliation:
consultant

Ethan Winn is a web developer, database, and IT consultant working with local, national and international non-profit organizations. He has recently authored social-networking tools to help organizations build their membership base online, developed an online database application which was coordinated using wikis and successfully installed Windows XP on his home machine (a trying feat of which he is especially proud).

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Winn

Affiliation:
Playwrights Platform, International Women Playwrights

Horton uses her Stagepage web site to climb over the barriers of Credentials and Connections and get her scripts to people who will read and perform them. Her 150 free monologues for actors are the main attraction for 1000 visitors a day, but thanks to the Internet she has had productions of her work in England, Ireland, France, Italy, Germany, Greece, Russia, New Zealand, India, Uganda, and South Africa; and in hundreds of high schools and colleges in the USA. Warning: she has no idea how to rise to Fame or Fortune via the Web.

Web Site:
http://www.stagepage.info

Affiliation:
DIOSA Communications

Heather Mansfield, owner of DIOSA | Communications and online community manager for Change.org, has over ten years of nonprofit fundraising and online community organizing experience.
She has worked at the Pew Center for Civic Journalism,
International Development Exchange, Drury University, Global Exchange, and Change.org.
Heather's career in web and e-mail communications received national recognition when she launched her own eActivist.org. She spoke at conferences all over the country and built one of the most popular e-activism websites on the Internet. She sold eActivist.org in 2004 to Capitol Advantage in Washington, DC.

Web Site:
diosacommunications.com

Affiliation:
Kintera, Inc.

Howard Horowitz is vice president of professional services for Kintera. He is responsible for supporting clients' efforts in using Kintera Sphere to raise funds and promote their goals by applying proven strategies. He is responsible for regularly monitoring account status to ensure client satisfaction and success as well as serving as the escalation point for issues resolution.
Prior to joining Kintera, Horowitz led the direct mail, advertising and web initiatives of Jewish National Fund (JNF), catapulting them from a $300,000 annual online fundraiser with 40,000 email addresses raising over $1.5 million online and increasing their email database by 600%. Howard has been the subject of several articles in the Chronicle of Philanthropy, The Non Profit Times as well as Fundraising Success about his unique approach to fundraising success.

Web Site:
kinterainc.com

Affiliation:
May First/People Link

Jamie McClelland is the co-founder of May First/People Link, an Internet services and technology organization with a mission to enhance the Internet as a tool for mass communication and organizing, develop new technologies and uses for it, and help social justice movements use it effectively.

Web Site:
http://mayfirst.org

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McClelland

Affiliation:
DemocracyInAction

Director of Outreach and Development for DemocracyInAction since early 2005, Jason is a onetime accidental techie who spent over five years with NCADP as Director of Development (with a five-month turn as Interim Executive Director). In between grant-writing and membership-building, he created the Coalition's email newsletter and online advocacy programs. An inveterate traveler, Jason has dabbled in freelance journalism and nannying children. He holds a Political Science degree from Lewis & Clark College in Portland, OR.

Web Site:
democracyinaction.org

Affiliation:
Democracy in Action

Jason Zanon spent over five years with the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty in funds development (with a five-month turn as Interim Executive Director) during which he created the Coalition's email newsletter and online advocacy programs -- and first laid hands on DemocracyInAction as a user.
Since joining DIA last year as Director of Outreach & Development, Jason has worked with hundreds of campaign managers on successful messaging strategies and covered the nonprofit technology space for the blog Half-Poets Even .

Web Site:
www.democracyinaction.org

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Zanon

Affiliation:
Massachusetts Jobs With Justice

Jennifer Doe is a labor activist originally from Western Massachusetts. Her previous experience includes the Coordinator of the WISE Committee at Arise for Social Justice, the Community/Political Outreach for the Pioneer Valley Building Trades Council, and a Field Monitor in Worcester County with the Foundation for Fair Contracting. She was the head of Research & Strategic Campaigns for the Laborers’ Eastern Region, covering New York City, Long Island, New Jersey, and Delaware, one of the most integrated, aggressive, and progressive unions in that area. Currently, she is the labor rights organizer at Massachusetts Jobs With Justice, where she coordinates all of their electronic communications.

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Doe

Affiliation:
Consultant

Many people who know Jessica Baumgart can tell you the secret isn't getting her to share her knowledge of blogging, feeds, and related technology; it's getting her to stop talking about it. She began blogging about her profession, news librarianship, in April 2003 at the urging of some of her colleagues. A co-leader of groups of bloggers and wiki enthusiasts, she has introduced many people to the tools.

Web Site:
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/jkbaumga/

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Baumgart

Affiliation:
Citizenspeak

Jo Lee is co-founder of CitizenSpeak – a nonprofit that offers a free email advocacy service for grassroots organizations. Jo is responsible for managing all functional areas of the organization, including sales, marketing, business development, public relations and finance. For the past 10 years, Jo has headed corporate communications and sales divisions for public, high technology companies including VocalTec and World Online.

Web Site:
http://citizenspeak.org

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Lee

Affiliation:
Community Software Lab

John is an AmeriCorps VISTA working with various technologies: GNU/Linux server maintenance, web design, and of course, credit-card processing. Having lived in Kansas City for most of his life, Lowell, MA is now home.

Web Site:
http://thecsl.org

Last:
Miller

Affiliation:
Interra Project

Jon Ramer is the Executive Director and Co-Founder of the Interra Project. The mission of Interra is to empower citizen consumers by aligning our deepest human values with our daily economic activities. Jon is a member of the Best Practices Working Group operating within the Access to Justice Technology Bill of Rights in the Washington State Supreme Court. Jon has studied and taught music theory and compositions for twenty five years, has authored over 100 musical compositions and performs regularly in the Seattle area. Jon lives in Seattle, Washington.

Web Site:
www.interraproject.org

Affiliation:
Kintera Inc.

Jon Thorsen is the general manager of education and hospitals for Kintera Inc. Prior to joining Kintera, he spent five years at the national headquarters of the American Red Cross, where he created the development resources team. Prior to joining the Red Cross, he served as director of development research at Princeton University. He earned his BA and MLIS degrees from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
He is a former president of the Association of Professional Researchers for Advancement (APRA), and received the APRA Service Award in 1999. He is a frequent presenter at local and national conferences of APRA, CASE and AFP, and his articles on fundraising have appeared in such journals as CASE Currents, Corporate Giving Watch, Foundation Reporter, APRA Connections, and The Non-Profit Times.

Web Site:
www.kintera.com

Affiliation:
ACORN

Josh Myles directs ACORN's Political Technology department, which includes work with voter files, database development, mapping, data analysis, and technical support. Myles has worked with ACORN since 2001 in a variety of organizing and political roles including Head Organizer in St. Petersburg, FL and FL state political coordinator.

Affiliation:
Care2

Justin Perkins, a social entrepreneur, accidental techie and former State water resources administrator for a major watershed in Colorado, joined Care2 in January 2006. Justin helps nonprofits with marketing strategies to reach Care2's audience of 7.2 million members and also helps develop new web tools for Care2 to help nonprofits to do marketing and fundraising. Justin launched the frogloop.com website and newsletter, as well as Care2's new project, www.movingideas.org, a site for the public to gain indepth exposure to progressive issues from the 250-plus Moving Ideas nonprofit members that support the issues.

Web Site:
earth.care2.com

Affiliation:
Care2.com

Justin Perkins, a social entrepreneur and former water resources administrator in Colorado, joined Care2 in January 2006 as Business Development Manager, a role in which Justin supports Care2’s business development team to assist nonprofits. Among other things, Justin manages and edits the FrogLoop website and newsletter, as well as Care2's new project, www.movingideas.org, a site for indepth exposure to progressive issues and the nonprofits that support them. Prior to joining Care2, Justin was involved with the launch of several social ventures: WorldBlu, Afrique Profonde, InMomenta and Abavuki, and holds a degree in World Perspectives with an emphasis on International Development, as well as an MBA from the University of Colorado.

Web Site:
www.Care2.com

Affiliation:
Planetwork

Kaliya Hamlin is the Network Director of Planetwork, connecting people and projects at the intersection of IT and social/environmental benefit. After college she worked with spiritual activist organizations and leaders for several years. Disillusioned by the failure to support sustained connections following inspired events she explored the possibilities that networking technology offered for movement building. She founded an Integrative Activism to provide open source tools for transformational movements. Kaliya currently works with the technology community supporting the emergence of user-centric identity on the web. She blogs about this on identitywoman.net

Web Site:
http://www.identitywoman.net | http://1society.planetwork.net

Last:
Hamlin

Affiliation:
Community Software Laboratory

Kamalavathi graduated from the University of Massachusetts Lowell with bachelor's degree in Information systems and subsequently also earned a certificate in Unix. She worked for 3 years at a manufacturing company prior to joining Community Software Laboratory (CSL). Kamalavathi worked for CSK Lowell for about six months as a volunteer and then accepted the current VISTA position.

Last:
Kalluri

Affiliation:
Idealware

As Idealware's Founder and Director, Laura S. Quinn directs
Idealware's research and writing to provide candid reports and
articles about nonprofit software. She has extensive experience in software selection, user research techniques, and nonprofit website strategy and design. In her spare time, Laura prepares for a new career as a homesteader with faithful practice in cooking, gardening, quilting, and weaving.

Web Site:
Idealware.org