Thank you to everyone that donated to the NECC Newbie project created by Beth Still to send me to NECC 2009 in Washington, DC. Yesterday, while I was on a “computer break” a very large donation was made by the kind folks at VoiceThread. That donation represented almost 50% of the goal of $1500. But, it wasn’t just VoiceThread that made reaching this goal possible, it was everyone who donated, Tweeted about the project, and blogged about the project that made it possible for me to attend NECC. The full list of public donors can be seen here.

As I mentioned above, I was on a “computer break” yesterday afternoon and evening so it wasn’t until this morning that I learned that the goal had been met. Needless to say, I was very excited to read on Beth’s blog that the goal had been met. Thank you to all of the folks that Tweeted their congratulations yesterday. I’m sorry that I wasn’t online to respond to each of you as the Tweets came in.

Later today I will have more to share about the NECC Newbie project and my NECC plans, but for now I just want to say thank you everyone and I hope to meet many of you at NECC.