Yesterday I attended the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits Technology and Communications Conference. It’s the first time I’ve been out of my jammies, off my sofa, and among real people before 1:00 p.m. in more than a year. My greatest concerns were a) whether or not I’d be able to speak coherent English sentences, and b) if real people out in the real world were still wearing pants — or had some other trendy trend taken over business casual?

I gotta get out more.

Beth Kanter was the keynote speaker. I saw her sticker-covered laptop with my own eyes and heard how she won America’s Giving Challenge. She was inspirational and grounded. And she swore like a sailor.

I also met Aaron Landry, who was talking about Web 2.0. terminology. Aaron was one of the first bloggers I read when I started out a year and a half ago. I was delighted when he used this blog (Corporate Babysitter) to illustrate what an RSS reader is, and since he was so kind to me, I will abandon my original plan to review his presentation as if it were a pizza place.* He was terrific.

Next week it’s off to Boston to the CCFC Annual Summit, Consuming Kids: The Sexualization of Children and Other Commercial Calamities (Morgan Spurlock, Jeanne Kilbourne, Juliet Schor, and Enola Aird, to name a few).

Now that I’ve confirmed pants are still in, I think I’m ready.

*A strange craving for pizza, however, did send my family and me to the Franklin Avenue Pizza Luce for dinner.

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