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I am very pleased to report that the NTEN "award" that I received at the Nonprofit Technology Conference on Wednesday was strictly a joke. ("Most Likely To Act As Your Unofficial PR Person."  This is apparently a reference to my habit of buttonholing people and telling them how wonderful someone else's work is.)  I did not have to make a speech, and therefore did not put my foot in my mouth by expressing all of my ambivalence about the way that our culture tends to regards an award as an achievement in itself.

All I had to do was wear a headdress with stylized antennae in public, which I was more than happy to do.  (NTEN...NTENnie Award...antenna.  Get it?)  Beth Kanter snapped a photo of this, which will no doubt turn up on the web someday to haunt me.

Speaking of Beth Kanter, she received a serious NTEN award on Friday for all of her fantastic work. 


Other folks sitting at our table on Wednesday during the lunchtime award ceremony also received NTENnies:


David Barnard
Ami Dar
"Most Likely to Know How to Say Internet in Five Languages"

John Kenyon
"Mostly Likely to Take Your Frantic Phone Call at 2:00 A.M."

Dahna Goldstein
"Mostly Likely to Give Us an Article for the Newsletter with 20 Minutes' Notice"

Beth Kanter
"Most Likely to Win a Pulitzer Prize for Blogging"


And a hat tip to my conference roommate, who also won an NTENnie:


Deborah Strauss
"Most Likely to Have Been an NTEN Member for Longer Than You"