In this short mp3, Kris Krug of Bryght (mostly) talks to Donna Morton, Hope Rippeon, Sarah Pulman and others about organizations blogging as a way to get message out and bring members in.

Gunner, you sadist, 10 rounds of speed geeking? I was ok through round 6. For those who don;t know what [l:http://wiki.advocacydev.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?SpeedGeeking|Speed Geeking] is, the basic idea is that a bunch of conference attendees get 5 minutes to demo their "coolest thing" which might be a product, a tool, or a technology. The rest of the session attendees get into groups of 3 to 6 people and move around the room from station to station getting 5 minute frenzied schpiels about a bunch of cool technologies.

I got hom a little while ago from [lk:newyork.penguinday.org|Penguin Day] (I actually walked home from the post conference watering hole on 33rd and 3rd ([l:http://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=E+33rd+St+%26+3rd+Ave,+New+York,+NY+10016&daddr=Grand+Street+and+FDR+DR,+NY,+NY&hl=en|about 2.5miles and 4 minutes according to google maps] now, since i wasn;t walking along the FDR, it was more than 2.5 miles and even if i were driving the drive, i know that that would take more than 4 minutes google... I am digressing here but it comes back to a convo at he bar where John relayed Mark' grlfriend's displeasure for google maps because it doesn;t have subways and is not designed for walking, only driving)