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Attend the Texas Nonprofit Summit to learn nonprofit management best practices, explore innovative trends and emerging opportunities for collaboration, share ideas and resource through affinity group gatherings and more. Get a sneak peek at some conference sessions!

After August 25, an additional $20 fee will be added to the registration fee.

Keynote Speakers
		Kathy LeMay Kathy LeMay is the founder, president and CEO of Raising Change, which helps organizations raise capital to advance social change agendas and individuals create Generosity Plans to help change the world. READ MORE
		Beth Kanter Beth is the author of Beth’s Blog (http://www.bethkanter.org), one of the longest running and most popular blogs for nonprofits and co-author of the highly acclaimed book, The Networked Nonprofit, published by J. Wiley in 2010. READ MORE

Hotel Reservation Details

The 2011 Texas Nonprofit Summit will be held at AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center. Summit participants get a special room rate of $169 per night. To reserve your room, call the AT&T Conference Center directly at 877-744-8822 or 512-404-3600 and let them know you’re attending the Texas Nonprofit Summit. Reservations can also be made at meetattexas.com by accessing the reservations tab and entering dates, contact info as well as the group code: GREENL0911.

Exhibit, Sponsor or Purchase an Ad

Sponsor the 2011 Texas Nonprofit Summit! A variety of levels and benefits are available. Contact Amy Silvey at 512.477.5955 x248 with questions or for more information.

Exhibit at the 2011 Texas Nonprofit Summit. Please review the exhibitor packet and complete the exhibitor registration form. Contact Julie Macalik at 512.477.5955 x247 with questions.

Purchase a full-color ad in the 2011 Texas Nonprofit Summit program. Please review the ad specifications and contact Julie Macalik at 512.477.5955 x247 with questions or to purchase an ad.

Photos from the 2010 Texas Nonprofit Summit

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:: via Scobleizer – Today I took a brief break from my family vacation to visit Vizio’s and Oakley’s headquarters down in Southern California with my friends Marc Ostrick and Sam Levin to get up to date on the latest 3D technologies from both companies. But while there Vizio pulled out their new Tablet and it shocked me what I thought of it (I’ve hated the Android tablets so far, when compared to iPad 2).

Mark Ostrick, of eGuiders, shot this video (you should follow his YouTube channel). Sam Levin does a cool gadget podcast for app freaks at AppMinute.

I finally had someone explain to me why Android will gain huge marketshare this year in the large-screen tablet wars (aka where iPad is dominant). It took USA’s #1 TV manufacturer, Vizio, to do it. Why didn’t Google have them on stage to show this off a few weeks back at Google IO?

Anyway, here it is: a $350 capable tablet is coming. Coming in July, they told me (and I believe them, they don’t want to piss off the retail chain in the United States because they are #1 in large screen TVs).

Why is this huge? Because it doesn’t compete with iPad. At least not head on.

“What is Scoble smoking,” you are probably asking yourself.

Well, see, people who will buy an iPad will buy an iPad and won’t buy anything else. Count me in that group. I don’t care if Larry Page gave me $10,000 I’m not switching off of an iPad. At least not this year.

But, there are a whole range of uses that don’t need an iPad, but need a good tablet.

For instance, let’s say you are outfitting a school with tablets and all you need is a good web browser at a very low cost? Vizio wins here. Apple doesn’t.

Or, say you are a restaurant and need to put a tablet at every table with a menu on it? Vizio wins here. Apple doesn’t.

Or, like we just saw at Oakley’s headquarters, let’s say you are building a custom retail experience where you can order custom sunglasses. Are you going to spend $500 on an iPad when a $350 one from Vizio will do? No way. Vizio wins. Apple doesn’t.

Get it? This is how Android will take over the marketshare battle in tablets. There are more of these uses than the ones people use iPads for. After all, how many schools need tablets? A whole lot. How many custom retail establishments need tablets? A whole lot. How many manufacturing machines need tablets built into them? A whole lot.

Thanks to this single tablet I can now see how Android is going to get the market share numbers it needs to get developers excited.

But don’t call it an iPad competitor, OK? At least not until there are a ton of great tablet-based apps, which there aren’t today.

Some more things I saw at Vizio today?

1. A look at latest 3DTVs (this is the same one they loaned me for my home studio to develop 3D content on and test out).
2. A look at new 21:9 aspect-ratio TV designed for movie buffs.

Anyway, just a brief break from my vacation, be back on Monday with more tech stuff.

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