You've been asking about recordings of NTC sessions. Now, we finally have some! You can thank Corey Pudhorodsky, of 501c3cast, for his work in creating podcasts of the following popular NTC sessions:

• Website Usability: Simple Steps for Making Your Site Perform Better, Mark Rovner, Sea Change Strategies

• We Need a New Web Site: Doing Your Redesign Right, Rob Rose, CrownPeak

• Intro to Google AdWords, Frederick Vallaeys, Google

501c3cast is a podcast for the nonprofit sector. You can check out some of their other shows and resources here.

All of the speakers at the 2008 NTC were phenomenal and we are grateful for all their hard work in making this NTC the best rated one in our history. Thanks to all of you who took the time to complete a session survey.

> View the Top 10 NTC Speaker Survey Results

The top ranked speakers were (Click on the links to go to Session Materials):

1. Teresa Crawford -- The Virtual Nonprofit: When a Café Can Be an Office

2. Katya Andresen -- The Seven Things Everyone Wants: What Freud and Buddha Understood

3. William Lester -- The Virtual Nonprofit: When a Café Can Be an Office

4. Tuba Coskun -- The Virtual Nonprofit: When a Café Can Be an Office

5. Mark Rovner -- The Seven Things Everyone Wants: What Freud and Buddha Understood

6. Dahna Goldstein -- The Virtual Nonprofit: When a Café Can Be an Office

7. Brian Reich -- Media Rocks!

8. Beth Kanter -- The Next Latest Thing: The Future of Nonprofits in Technology

9. Eric Leland -- So You Want to Be a Consultant

10. Dahna Goldstein -- Roundtable: How I Solved My Data Integration Problem (No materials provded as of yet.)

Check out the following links for more NTC results and resources:

• 2008 Overall NTC Evaluation
• 2008 Session Evaluations
• 2008 NTC Session Materials 

We've gathered the 2008 session materials provided to us by the presenters and posted them for your perusal.  Instead of last year's method, we've linked to them from the NTC session pages themselves, which you can sort by session, presenter, and track.  There will be links to all available materials under the session's description.

We think this should make it easier for you to find what you want, but please let us know, in comments, below.

> View 2008 NTC Session Materials 

The results of our session evaluations are also available, linked to from the main NTC pages.  C'mon -- you know you're curious.

The Day of Service, a long-time NTC tradition, gave NPTechies the chance to give something back to the New Orleans community. In spite of some weather related travel delays -- apparently, some pilots didn't want to play hide-and-go-seek with tornadoes -- 2008 saw record volunteer turnout for the DOS.

Volunteers traveled to the Community Center of St. Bernard to install a wireless network, others conducted strategy consults with local nonprofits; later in the day, there was also a video blogging work shop. Additionally, a second team of volunteers, led by some great people from Cisco -- who also donated the hardware for the wireless installation -- went back to St. Bernard to train local residents one-on-one.

Lisa Stansky, New Orleans Legal Assistance

When it comes to using technology to rebuild New Orleans, sometimes less is more. That certainly seemed true immediately after the storm, when there was no power, few or no land lines, and little or no cellular phone service across a swath of the gulf region. Basic communication tools, when they worked, became lifelines, sometimes literally.

What happened? People took baby steps. But the truly remarkable thing, observers note, is that those who were low-tech or no-tech quickly got with the program. Average cell phone users learned how to text. People who never touched a computer keyboard quickly picked up the basics of e-mail communication and online research.

Deborah Cotton, LouisianaRebuilds.info

There are some words we are so beleaguered by, we don't use them anymore. We don't say Katrina, we just say "the storm" -- or "the Thing".

This is really like living in a civilization that has been shattered and blasted throughout the universe. From the outside looking in, it's hard to imagine the many details that come together to making your life work. Sometimes the basic pieces of information take half a day, even days to track down -- how to get utilities restored, where and when you can find food or gas in your area, how to find your doctor or old medical records.

LouisianaRebuilds.info is dedicated to pulling all the information together that can help people reconstruct their lives.

AdamNicholson's NTENny DisplayI'm composing this weekly round-up differently this week, for two reasons: 1) there's a LOT of buzz in the blog- and twitter-spheres from and about NTEN members because of last week's conference, so I'll be truncating the summaries; and 2) I want to take this opportunity to share my thoughts about the conference and the NTEN community -- and thank everyone for the great experience.

First up, here's an abbreviated round-up of the 08NTC-related posts from members:

Laura B. Crochet, LANO New Orleans

On August 28th, 2005, we had a cool city, an alive, vibrant city. Then the lights went out, and it was the Dark Ages here.

In St. Bernard Parish, 25 feet of water in rose in 23 minutes -- not even the length of a sitcom. Slab houses bobbed like ice cubes along the street and floated down 3 blocks. Months later, the house's curtains are still in the windows, dancing; kids’ papers are still on the refrigerator. Like Dorothy in Wizard of Oz, I had to touch those houses, because I had a hard time believing that a house had been picked up and sat down like that.

The only reason the community is going to come back is that nonprofits, faith-based groups, schools, colleges, people like you, have come in.

Google Analytics tells us a lot of you are looking around for the session materials from the 2008 NTC -- and finding only 2007.  How dated!

So, where can you look? 

Not all of the session designers have turned in their final drafts yet, and even when they do, it's going to take us some time to get them all organized, uploaded, and linked up. The short answer, then, is come back soon.  We expect we'll be able to make the bulk of the materials available by the second week in April. We'll get the word out when everything's good to go.

In the meantime, we have uploaded the contents of the conference thumb drive to our web site, giving you access to most of what we've received so far. 

> View 2008 NTC Session Materials 

The final versions will be much more cleanly organized, we promise.

Last week, at this exact moment, I was returning from a field trip to Kinkos on St. Charles Avenue in New Orleans, wearing a short sleeved shirt. This week, I'm contemplating putting on my parka and getting a third cup of coffee here in Portland. How quickly things change!

We just released the 08NTC evaluation (fill it out if you haven't already!), and so far the biggest theme is that David Pogue rocks -- as in, could rock a stadium concert style rocking. I recorded a little video with David for the Convio blog right after his plenary and they were kind enough to post it on YouTube (thanks Jordan and Tad).

I admit that I can't watch the thing out of sheer embarrassment, but you've all clearly indicated a need for MORE POGUE. Who am I to argue?