Association Experiments With Virtual Conferences

By Nicole Wallace

The Nonprofit Technology Network, which organizes an in-person annual meeting, is trying something a little different. Next month it will hold a two-day Online Nonprofit Technology Conference.

"We've been told that it can cost too much to fly across the country and stay in a hotel," Holly Ross, the organization's executive director, wrote in an e-mail message announcing the new event.

Scheduled for September 16 and 17, the conference will run from 9 a.m. to roughly 1:30 p.m.