{"id":55,"date":"2008-03-24T17:27:08","date_gmt":"2008-03-25T00:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techcafeteria.com\/new\/2008\/03\/24\/ntc08-part-2-in-honor-of-marnie-webb\/"},"modified":"2014-10-25T14:04:57","modified_gmt":"2014-10-25T14:04:57","slug":"ntc08-part-2-in-honor-of-marnie-webb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techcafeteria.com\/?p=55","title":{"rendered":"NTC08 Part 2: In Honor of Marnie Webb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the <a href=\"http:\/\/nten.org\">NTEN<\/a> awards on Friday, <a href=\"http:\/\/ext337.org\">Marnie Webb<\/a> took the Person of the Year award, and rightly so! In honor of Marnie, a key originator of the nptech community, I want to share the story of how I met her. And try to make her blush a bit more. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>In 2004, I was reading <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.jonudell.net\">Jon Udell<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infoworld.com\">Infoworld<\/a> columns about a new technology called &#8220;Really Simple Syndication&#8221;, RSS. The technology interested and thrilled me a bit, because it looked like it might provide a much needed management tool for web-based information (which it did). In early 2005, I was browsing through popular bookmarked web sites at <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\">Del.icio.us<\/a>, a web site that made innovative use of RSS, and saw a link entitled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/ext337.blogspot.com\/2004\/12\/10-reasons-nonprofits-should-use-rss.html\">The Top 10 Reasons that Nonprofits Should Use RSS<\/a>&#8220;. I noted that the author, one Marnie Webb, of course, worked near me in SF at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techsoup.org\">Compumentor\/Techsoup<\/a>. The next week, I ran across a post by the same Ms. Webb to the del.icio.us mailing list. Armed with the knowledge that there was someone else obsessed with the same technology trends and potential that I was, I emailed her and said &#8220;You don&#8217;t know me, but we have to have lunch&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The rest is this story &#8212; this blog, Techcafeteria, my happiness in finding\/joining NTEN, which Marnie introduced me to. We started up the <a href=\"http:\/\/nptech.info\">nptech aggregator web site<\/a>, as the next logical progression in Marnie&#8217;s campaign to get people around the world referring useful information to each other via that ubiquitious tag. But I am positive that my story is far from unique &#8212; Marnie is one of those people who, in her unassuming way, promotes ideas and community. So, good work NTEN, and great work Marnie! A well-deserved award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the NTEN awards on Friday, Marnie Webb took the Person of the Year award, and rightly so! In honor of Marnie, a key originator of the nptech community, I want to share the story of how I met her. And try to make her blush a bit more. \ud83d\ude42 In 2004, I was reading<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/techcafeteria.com\/?p=55\">+ Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[137,103,86,76,101,84],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nptech","tag-008ntc","tag-award","tag-marnie-webb","tag-nptechinfo","tag-nten","tag-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcafeteria.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcafeteria.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcafeteria.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcafeteria.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcafeteria.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/techcafeteria.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1565,"href":"https:\/\/techcafeteria.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions\/1565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcafeteria.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcafeteria.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcafeteria.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}