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APRIL 12, 2011

2011 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study A visual version of the 2011 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study by M+R Strategic Services and NTEN. Based on 2006 data, the chart features the 10 major sources of revenue for U.S. Get the latest data on email open rates, social media usage, email churn, and more.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

September 17, 2007 There is an interesting discussion happening between Holly Ross, soon to be ED of NTEN, and Allan Benamer , about web statistics, and whether or not nonprofits should be “transparent&# and publish their web statistics. For one thing, feeding people is not what NTEN does.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2008

like right now, on the Linuxchix IRC channel, we are discussing elections, HFS+ filesystems and terabyte switches.) It is a tool which is used predominantly in the open source world, for developers and users of open source projects to talk to one another, and get support. I use IRC every day. Quasi-social, quasi-professional.

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MAY 15, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants: Better Late than Never May 15, 2007 This carnival is a day late, unfortunately. Solidariti has a great discussion and graph of Web 2.0

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JULY 6, 2007

July 6, 2007 Deborah, is, as per usual, diplomatic in her discussion of the site " Sustainable Nonprofit ", which is a new(?) Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology See a problem? Throw a website at it!

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OCTOBER 20, 2006

Part Vb:APIs October 20, 2006 This morning, I sat in on the " Great Open API Debate " hosted by NTEN. First off, a tip o’ the hat to NTEN for organizing this, the participants of the panel for an interesting conversation, and Mark Bolgiano from the Council on Foundations for awesome moderation.

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OCTOBER 17, 2006

Folks at NTEN have been thinking about APIs , and will host a discussion about them on Friday. These are using data in your own databases, and grabbing maps from google maps and putting them inside your application. Other examples include desktop applications that allow uploading photos to flickr. But I have a first take.

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OCTOBER 18, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Platforms break open, part II October 18, 2007 The dust is settling. And the big guys have already done this work, check out the way Google and Amazon distribute their API s.

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APRIL 10, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Twitter and Nonprofits April 10, 2008 This actually was a post to the Progressive Exchange discussion list. I love twitter, which in some ways surprises me, and in some ways doesn’t.

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Tech Soup

JULY 29, 2009

NTEN's blog discusses the details of the break-in and lessons we should learn from it. A 2007 NTEN post provided suggestions and resources for creating strong passwords and establishing a password policy. The chief lesson: good passwords are key to good security. .

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Care2

OCTOBER 18, 2007

In discussing the new Convio “connector” to Salesforce.com, Austin said it was easy to build this connector because Salesforce has published its API openly. This means that “We know how to take data from [Saleforce] and how to provide data to it,” he said.

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JANUARY 18, 2012

“When we are sitting in between the announcement and the actual change, we can go many directions with speculation - from hopes to fears," said Amy Sample Ward of NTEN. ” Colin Delany, Editor of Epolitics.com says “some of us were on GetActive back when Convio bought it (2007?).

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AFP Blog

MARCH 21, 2007

The ongoing discussion about tagging is well represented here at NTEN's blogNpTech Tagging Community | NTEN: The Nonprofit Technology Network: "NpTech Tagging CommunitySubmitted by Bonnie on Tue, 03/20/2007 - 9:56am.Newsletter | NPTech | online community | taggingMarnie Webb, TechSoupBeth Kanter, Beth’s BlogTagging facilitates the sharing of information (..)

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NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Chapter 3 is a discussion on Peer production – it talks about how it is that people have come together to collaboratively create software and content – basically, knowledge production. I’m realizing that all of the justifications for why I am so into open source and free software is right here in this book!

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JANUARY 19, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Spirituality and Technology January 19, 2007 A number of people have written me, and said that they appreciate that there is a blog with a spiritual take on technology. 2 Deborah Elizabeth Finn 01.22.07

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JANUARY 14, 2009

at 2:36 pm This is actually a topic I’ll be discussing at the NTC this year. At many conference we hear folks discuss the communication strategies, results and benefits but rarely do we hear how it was actually done. @Jon Stahl – I never thought of applying for grants to get this project done. 10 Tompkins Spann 01.23.09

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AUGUST 17, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The search for good web conferencing August 17, 2007 I decided, perhaps rashly, that one way of exposing people to, and training people on, open source software, was by doing web conferencing. 9 sundar 08.24.07

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APRIL 15, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Speaking too soon April 15, 2007 I’ve been doing a lot of thinking since I wrote my post, a few weeks ago , saying I was done with technology consulting.

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AUGUST 12, 2007

I came across this discussion of Linux distributions and their strengths and weaknesses in terms of vendors who might resell Linux. Sometimes it does matter, both to an organization that might use that vendor, and to the vendor themselves in terms of viability of their business model.

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JUNE 24, 2008

I hope you’re discussing the option of buying systems with linux preinstalled in the webinar. Brian Yes, I will discuss pre-loaded systems, and you are right, they are easier to deal with, for sure. I plug in in printers and they’re automatically set up. 5 Matthew Edmondson 06.25.08 at 5:28 am This is a shame.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Nonprofit dashboard reports, which communicate critical information in a concise, visual, and more compelling way, are mostly used by board or staff for discussion at internal or private meetings or used as part of reports back to funders for grants. . Perhaps create a special web site and discuss the results on Twitter or your blog ?

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

At this point, many nonprofit technology providers have blogs, and use them to get their message out (and, I think, create an interesting community that is somewhat changed from the community I knew pre-seminary, which was primarily fueled by email discussions.)

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

We discuss issues and trends in modern web technologies that help your organization achieve more with less. an open class discussion, or a traditional front-of-room lecture from your teacher? Toronto : Imagine Canada , 2007. December 2007 (11). November 2007 (12). October 2007 (14). September 2007 (14).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2007

Materials (draft) for a workshop on January 15 2007 at the UK circuit rider conference to be presented by David Wilcox and Beth Kanter. We will lead a discussion about and present on nonprofits using social media and also beta the social media nonprofit adoption game during the workshop. The wiki is under "by" 2.0

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JUNE 10, 2011

The nonprofit technology community is a robust knowledge sharing network widely dispersed across many blogs, tweets, discussion boards, Facebook walls, etc. Discussion boards can be added to your website, leveraged in a Ning site, or you can use a google group or similar solution. org / blog /2007/03/20/ nptech - tagging - community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2006

Allan Benamer who writes the Non-Profit Tech Blog blogged about his announcement on the NY 501C Tech Club List to create a closed forum for frank discussion of vendors and to share experiences about their experience with IT vendors. quarterly conference calls/briefings and summary posts discussing the issues are in the works.

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JUNE 18, 2009

Since we launched in May 2007, 60 million people have started using Causes and over 250,000 causes have been created about every topic from halting global warming to supporting arts education. Tags: facebook facebook causes Fundraising Newsletter NPTech NTEN susan gordon. Thank you for using Causes!

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JULY 15, 2011

HandsOn created a page on their site to showcase the livestreamed panel discussion on volunteering and leadership, and encouraged online participation through its live Twitter stream and Facebook stream on the website page. This was a Livestream powered event billed as “America’s Sunday Supper” in the spirit of Martin Luther King, Jr.,

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MAY 13, 2009

. NTEN offered a fantastic Webinar today featuring Randi Zuckerberg, Director of Marketing at Facebook and Adam (didn't get his last name) from the DC Office on the emerging best practices for nonprofits who want to set up Facebook Fan Pages. Some of you may remember the flap about Ranger Rick from 2007). Here's the description.

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JUNE 5, 2009

According to the just released 2009 eBenchmarks study by M&R Strategic Services and NTEN, most of the 32 groups featured in the study saw their online fundraising increase between 2007 and 2008. The total amount of money raised online increased by 26 percent from 2007 to 2008. Earned media.

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See3

OCTOBER 25, 2007

Maybe we can make this request to Google through out friends and partners at NTEN. Share and Enjoy: 5 Comments comment Marc Sirkin Posted a bit about this here:[link] and here: [link] 25 Oct 2007 Holly Michael – I shared this post with some of my Google colleagues. What do you think Holly? Do social networks drive donations?

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See3

OCTOBER 25, 2007

Maybe we can make this request to Google through out friends and partners at NTEN. Share and Enjoy: 5 Comments comment Marc Sirkin Posted a bit about this here:[link] and here: [link] 25 Oct 2007 Holly Michael – I shared this post with some of my Google colleagues. What do you think Holly? Do social networks drive donations?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2007

Holly from NTEN has a post "Is Your Email Managing You?" I recently stumbled across this YouTube video of Robert Scoble discussing how he processes his 10s of 1000s of emails. Wesley Fryer, Moving at the Speed of Creativity, July 20, 2007. " and points to the video version of this slide deck.)

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

It also started Facebook and Twitter feeds to allow volunteer hosts find one another and discuss their party plans. Prior to her move to California in 2007, she served as the head of fundraising for Dyson College of Arts & Sciences at Pace University in New York City. Tags: Community NPTech NTEN Fundraising.

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MARCH 18, 2011

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking 2011 NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference – Day 2 Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on March 18th, 2011 Day 2 of NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology Conference ( #NTC ) in Washington, DC is when things really kick into high gear.

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Forum One

APRIL 5, 2007

We had a great discussion about how government agencies are using social media, and how the research community can support their efforts. " The event, Participation Camp, was organized by volunteers recently and sponsored, in part, by Forum One.Participation, as we discussed it, relates to lowering the. We also saw some.

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Forum One

MARCH 6, 2008

We had a great discussion about how government agencies are using social media, and how the research community can support their efforts. " The event, Participation Camp, was organized by volunteers recently and sponsored, in part, by Forum One.Participation, as we discussed it, relates to lowering the. We also saw some.

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