A couple of weeks ago, I volunteered at Community Media Workshop's first CommuniCamp, an open space conference for nonprofit communications staff. For me, this was an experiment to see how the open space format would work for CMW (I hope this will be the first of many open space events there!). It was also a chance to reconnect with old friends working in the nonprofit technology space in Chicago, while meeting some new ones.

Over the past ten years, I've seen the nonprofit tech sector grow by leaps and bounds. We attend conferences, increasingly savvy clients come in already asking for Drupal or CiviCRM, and nonprofit-focused consulting is proving a viable business model for a rapidly growing number of organizations (including ours!). The technology, too, has evolved tremendously; the Drupal-based sites we consider "standard" today would have been impossibly expensive even three years ago.

Ironically, it's still easy to lose sight of the digital divide, even as we help nonprofits bridge it.