Meet the NTEN Community

The NTEN Community is full of great folks. Here are just a few of them.

David J. Neff

American Cancer Society

David J. Neff is the Director of Web, Film and Interactive Strategies 2009 NTENny Winner2009 NTENny Winnerfor the American Cancer Society's High Plains Division. In this capacity he directs all Web and Interactive strategies and online properties for 6 states.  He is also a past twice recipient of a Futuring and Innovations grant, which he used to create C-Tools and SharingHope.TV. C-Tools was the first PDA software tool for the prevention of cancer ever developed by the American Cancer Society. While SharingHope.TV is the non-profit world's first ever totally user-generated content Web Site. David is also responsible for helping start The Frozen Pea Fund to fight Breast Cancer and a co-founder of the successful Austin Tweetups : Social Media for Social Good.

Michelle Murrain

OpenIssue

Michelle is a nationally recognized leader in the nonprofit technology2008 NTENny2008 NTENny field. Michelle is currently Systems Integration Lead at OpenIssue, a San Francisco-based consulting firm 2009 NTEN Booster2009 NTEN Boosterthat specializes in CRM and CMS solutions for nonprofit organizations and social enterprises. She is also on the boards of Aspiration and NTEN. She blogs on nonprofit technology at Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology.  When she's not thinking about nonprofit technology, she's probably writing science fiction.

Katrin Verclas

MobileActive.org

Katrin Verclas is co-founder and editor of MobileActive.org, a global network of2008 NTENny Winner2008 NTENny Winner practitioners using mobile phones in social change work. She was, until recently, also the Executive Director of NTEN, and now sits on the Board. Katrin is passionate about the use of technology in democratic participation, economic empowerment, community organizing, and government accountability. She believes in the importance of community, the power of networks, the good will of people, our ability to collaborate for a common good, the inherent political-ness of everyday life, and the power of people using technology to better this world. She is currently engaged in researching and writing a publication on mobile use in civil society with the UN Foundation and Vodafone Foundation Group, among other projects.

Dale Thompson

Austin Free-Net

Dale is currently the Financial Manager and Acting Executive Director of2008 NTENny Winner2008 NTENny Winner Austin Free-Net, a nonprofit providing community computer labs and training and tech support for nonprofits and community-based organizations in Austin, Texas. She also coordinates the Austin 501 Tech Club meetings and Lunch Bytes trainings for Accidental Techies in Nonprofits with help from fabulous volunteers. She received the 2006 Dewey Winburne Community Service Award at the SXSW2009 NTEN Booster2009 NTEN Booster Interactive Festival for her work organizing computer volunteers to assist Katrina evacuees in Austin and continues to work with the Red Cross in central Texas to evaluate and improve their online volunteer applications, training and disaster planning.

Levent Korkmaz

BECAUSE limited

Levent is the founder of BECAUSE limited, a Belgium-based CRM consultancy focused on serving NGOs, social enterprises, and charities in the EMEA. As a non-profit implementation partner of the Salesforce.com Foundation, he believes in taking a proactive role in the business of changing the world.