I've had the Palm Pre for about 6 months now and I'm still pretty much lovin' it so I thought I'd update my impressions.  I admit, there are a few things that are first generation annoyances but that's what I get for being on the bleeding-edge of technology and I accept that.

On to the love.

1.  The keyboard.  It's not the greatest but I'll take a real keyboard over a virtual one any day of the week and I can so...out-text my iPhone-wielding friends...:-)

I recently got back from a trip out to Tucson to visit family and as I was talking with my brother about what I do for a living, he said, "Huh...organizations hire you to fix their system problems but you actually give them management and re-organization consulting along with the systems help."  (BTW, my brother, is a programmer.)
 

Yes....it's been months now since I've blogged and even though I have spent many months trying to excite and incite my nonprofit clients to blog, twitter and facebook with abandon, I have not taken my own advice lately so I'm writing now to tell you that I am making my first New Year's resolution to get back in the game.
 

Alot of my work involves going into the fundraising department of a nonprofit and assessing and investigating why the Development staff cannot get the information they need to fundraise more effectively. Many times I am brought in to assess the "database" or "software product" and most times, the problem is not in the software but in the "peopleware" of an organization. In fact, I would say that 9 times out of 10, when the organization thinks it's a software problem it's a people problem.

This past Friday, June 12th, The Greater New York Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) celebrated the 30th Anniversary of Fund Raising Day in New York (FRDNY) with keynote speaker Peter G. Peterson.  As one the Program Co-Vice Chairs (along with my fellow chairs Nancy Carmichael & Amy Leveen), I am proud to say that our track chairs worked like fiends to put on a fabulous program despite an incredibly tough year for fundraising, conferences, clients, consultants and vendors alike.