The Twitterverse is Alive at the Conference for Nonprofits

Blackbaud's Conference for Nonprofits in Montreal is off to a brilliant start this morning, and Twitter updates are allowing attendees to share the experience with their followers. The era of microblogging (Twitter), lifestreaming (Socialthing! and FriendFeed), and mobile broadcasting (Qik) is changing the way we we communicate with each other, and events are certainly prime venues to play with this technology.

I've already seen a few tweets from people I'm following, and I'm dropping some myself. Twitter user micahwittman sent in this update from Marc Van Baar's session on Mail Merging: "Spoiler: Raisers Edge 8 to have Total Giving and other aggregate fields for mail merge!" Shortly after, I picked up a tweet from marcapitman, who said: " tweeting from the Blackbaud conference in Montreal. About to learn about building an online village! (This is my first "in session" tweet!)"

What can I say, I'm loving this! This influx of real-time tools is encouraging lifestreaming and self-broadcasting, and their impact is only just beginning to become evident. One thing is for sure - things will never been them same...for you, me, nonprofits, corporations, and even government agencies.

OK, back to the Twittterverse...