good2gether

Leftover pic from NAA.

Picture 557, originally uploaded by Middlesex Fells.

Sandi (our maven of media), Brian (husband of Allison, our queen of user delight), and Alicia (our newest member of the nonprofit team - AKA Team Kris).

Nonprofits in Boston - GET READY!

We're counting down to good2gether going live in Boston.  We're less than sixty days to launch and if you're a nonprofit in Boston you need to get your 'stuff' into good2gether.  Your stuff being your programs, event information, volunteering opportunities, in-kind donation needs, and more.

We're having Boston seminars on Wednesday, April 2nd.  Click here to sign up.

The greatest story ever told!

Well no, not really. But is is pretty interesting - in just 6 minutes we give you the how and why of good2gether.

Watch it. You'll be glad you did.

The shift in ad dollars.

Digital Media Prospers, Traditional Suffers In Recession

by Erik Sass, Friday, Mar 21, 2008 7:45 AM ET

A FULL-BLOWN RECESSION WOULD PROBABLY take a substantial bite out of traditional media, according to a survey of industry analysts and independent researchers. But digital media will benefit from these draw-downs as financially strapped marketing executives shift dollars online, seeking more transparent measures of ROI. In many cases, a recession would simply accelerate a long-term trend that is already underway.

Read the rest at MediaPost.

For us, this is good news - dollars shifting to digital media is cool for us.

The yellow line.

Photo_031908_002, originally uploaded by Middlesex Fells.

Not the ones painted on the ground - the one on the building. That's the indicator of the water level during Katrina at this (still) abandoned strip mall in Metarie, LA.

Wow.

Picture 578, originally uploaded by Middlesex Fells.

Out in Metarie for a meeting. Houses still empty post-Katrina.

The Big Easy.

Down in New Orleans for the N-Ten conference and meetings with nonprofits. I'm meeting today with:

• Arts Council of New Orleans
• Hands On New Orleans
• Second Harvest Food Bank
• YMCA of Greater New Orleans

I love New Orleans…been coming here for years. In fact, coming back in a month or so for Jazz Fest.

Good stuff. Great food!

Room with a view.

Or more to the point, an office with a view.

 

We've moved into office space today!

We're on the 13^th floor of One Broadway in Kendall Square, Cambridge, MA in the Cambridge Innovation Center.

If you're coming by MBTA, it's a stones' throw from the Kendall Station on the Red Line. 

This is exciting stuff.

It's also a big transition for us.  For me, I've been very happy that we don't use desktop video conferencing so that all you didn't see what my standard dress was on my rare 'office' days.  Trust me.  You don't want to know.

Being together will be an important and powerful change for us - there's so much more communication that can go on when we're all 2gether.

What is that!?

Photo_031408_001, originally uploaded by Middlesex Fells.

When the hotel valet brought my rental around Friday morning in Minneapolis the windshield (and most of the car) was covered in a bizarre substance that wouldn't wash off. Couldn't be scraped off.

It made for interesting driving.

In recovery.

Back from Chicago and  Minneapolis.  Great trip.  Met with 14 nonprofits representing thousands of local organizations, 1 ad network, 2 media buying agencies, and 2 newspapers.

Sigh.

And I'm sure everyone was very happy meeting with me - I was sick the whole time and it's always nice to meet with sick people.

Serious R&R this weekend before heading out to Nonprofit Technology Conference this week in New Orleans.  Stop by the Science Fair Wednesday night and see Allison and I.  And then on to NYC on Friday.

More travel.  Yeah!