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MARCH 17, 2011

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking 2011 NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference – Day 1 Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on March 17th, 2011 NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology Conference ( #NTC ) is in Washington, DC and it’s sold out once again.

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OCTOBER 9, 2009

(Note: This is a weekly round-up of NTEN members doing and sharing their nptech awesome. Tag your news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome, or contact Annaliese with your updates.). joined host Chad Norman on the latest Baudcast , the nonprofit tech podcast series from Blackbaud.

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JANUARY 6, 2009

Flickr Photo by lumaxart The web is abuzz with resolutions for 2009 -- NTEN included! We'd like to help you put a little action behind the words, with the NTEN Technology Leadership Series. John Kenyon will host this series of 7 webinars with special guest speakers Robert Weiner , Eric Leland , and Beth Kanter. >

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MAY 14, 2009

M+R Strategic Services and NTEN are about to host an in-person event in Washington, DC from 1:30-3:00 p.m. The event will reveal the results of the 2009 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study , which: Provides updated industry-wide metrics to analyze your online program.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 24, 2012

" 2011 NTEN Champions Fundraising Campaign by the Numbers | NTEN – "The funny thing about being the Nonprofit Technology Network is that it can be really hard to practice what we preach. You may recall that the NTEN community recently helped us raise over $15,000 to host more local events throughout 2012.

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MAY 15, 2009

We just released the 2009 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study with our fantastic friends at M+R Strategic Services. To help folks get started, we hosted a release party. Tags: Advocacy benchmarks email Fundraising m+r marketing metrics newsletters NPTech NTEN. Get your copy of the report and take a listen to the webinar.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 21, 2008

In order to insure email deliverability on blasts, you’ll need to have it hosted somewhere where they are actively dealing with whitelists, etc. Otherwise, it’s easy to host it on a generic hosting account, if you don’t need that functionality.

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MARCH 17, 2009

The NTC isn't the only tech conference in San Francisco in 2009: March 22-23, ISIS, Inc. will host Sex::Tech 2009 , the second annual conference that focuses on sexual health, technology and youth. The theme of Sex::Tech 2009 is Focus on Youth. Tags: NPTech sextech 2009.

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JUNE 19, 2009

Oh, and Causes is an NTEN member, too!). Our friends across the pond at LASA had their 2009 Ciruit Riders Conference last week. I saw this photo from NTEN member Marc Osten , and thought I'd include it as an "image of the week" for us: Tags: community buzz NPTech nten member. Pretty cool, eh? (Oh,

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 14, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants April 14, 2008 I like hosting the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants. And lastly, since I’m hosting, I get to mention my recent post on Twitter and nonprofits.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2008

Welcome to November: this month is all about YOU, NTEN members! Well: > Every business day in November, we will give away special prizes to randomly selected NTEN members. NTEN gear from CafePress and WeAreMedia. One free Season Pass for unlimited NTEN webinars in 2009. Prizes like: Webinar coupons.

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JULY 27, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants July 27, 2008 This week, it is my pleasure to host the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants. And, since I’m the host, I get to add a couple of bonus mistakes.

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NTEN

JANUARY 29, 2009

On Monday, April 27th, we're going to bring some NTEN rock stars -- quite literally! -- to San Francisco's Mezzanine. Salesforce Foundation's Meghan Nesbit and Kevin Johnson of VolunteerMatch will be performing with their bands, and we'll feature the beats of NTEN Member DJ Darian Heyman, as well. We hope to see you in San Francisco!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

It also includes applications that you might develop (or have developed) that are hosted outside your network. Huge data centers are being thrown up everywhere, and more and more companies are getting into the business of providing hosting for SaaS developers.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants November 19, 2007 Today, it’s my turn to host the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants. It was an open call, so there are a wide variety of posts to talk about.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2009

Over the last couple of years, our IT Staffing reports have found that nonprofits are hosting their own software and services less and less. Most are outsourcing website, email, and listserv hosting. Tags: NPTech sage NTEN remote 09NTC. For those of you who want REAL San Francisco Chinese food, check out the House of Nanking.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 13, 2007

But in any case, it should work on all generic hosting environments, and it looks easy to install. So here’s another good option for organizations that want powerful blogging software to use on a generic (read: cheap) hosting environment.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

Then, all monthly hosting fees are waved if more than a certain amount of money is transacted using the payment system. The hosting costs, if you don’t qualify for free hosting, are pretty reasonable. Setup of all three has a one time fee. Depending on the project, those can be really useful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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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JANUARY 26, 2009

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology CiviCRM and Drupal (& Joomla) January 26, 2009 CiviCRM was the first nonprofit-focused open source CRM (one of only two, at this moment.) It’s a very straightforward integration.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2007

of nonprofits already use Linux server-side – either in-house, or if not, their web host usually does. A large chunk (the majority?) But can it really be a desktop platform for nonprofit organizations? Linux on the desktop has come quite far, in just a few years.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2007

Which implies that I want to host it (or delegate the hosting elsewhere), and control access to it. What really matters is an open social network, built using open protocols and documented, published standards. The ability to be able to move my social network around wherever on the Internet I want to go is important.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

Send queries to nonprofit tech lists for experiences and information, like nosi-discussion , nten-discuss , riders-tech , and others. Many standard virtual hosts have “one click install&# or “fantastico&# – which makes it easy to try out some kinds of web applications. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

So I thought it would be a great subject for the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants hosted here today. Keep track of the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants, no matter which blog is hosting, by subscribing to the Carnival feed. Beth has some advice for dealing with too much data – write it down (er, on a wiki that is.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

So I thought it would be a great subject for the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants hosted here today. Keep track of the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants, no matter which blog is hosting, by subscribing to the Carnival feed. Beth has some advice for dealing with too much data – write it down (er, on a wiki that is.)

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NTEN

APRIL 23, 2010

Report season is in full effect here at NTEN. We've recently released the 2009 IT Staffing and Spending Report and the 2010 Nonprofit Social Network Benchmark Report (in conjunction with Common Knowledge & thePort). Tags: benchmarks NPTech NTEN. You should register for the online launch here.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 9, 2007

Photo by rob_pym ) I’m hosting this week’s Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants ! Sorry it’s a day late. The topic I chose was a tough one, too: I asked people to talk about mistakes they make with clients, and how they deal with them. at 3:04 pm Last minute tidbits » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 12.20.07

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DECEMBER 7, 2007

strategy that includes a whole host of tools, including Twitter, is a darned good idea. But, the biggest reason that I’m twittering is that as the Coordinator of NOSI , I’m experimenting with Web 2.0 in general, which includes Twitter, Facebook, and others – with the goal of crafting a strategy. 1 trackback } Web 2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 24, 2008

But if your organization decides to blog, and you want to make it easy on yourself, install Wordpress on your hosting account, or go to WordPress.com and set up a free blog. I think this is generally a Bad Idea, since there are so many easy, good CMS tools out there (I’ll be naming a few in this series.) Keep up the good work!

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JANUARY 29, 2009

The application deadline for this year’s prize: March 2nd, 2009. The award winner will be announced at April 28th at the 2009 NTC. (By " Tides Foundation has hosted the Pizzigati Prize selection process since the prize competition first began. You can find out more and apply or nominate someone online here.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 19, 2007

I switched platforms to wordpress (hosted on my own virtual host). { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Beth Kanter 07.20.07 at 9:24 pm I was going to comment your post — gift economies near and dear to my heart – but I had to pop out of the reader and when I landed to see you new design – WOW!

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NOVEMBER 30, 2007

There are issues that relate to encoding, fonts, and character sets, machine translation, interfaces to facilitate human translation, issues of workflow, volunteer and project management, and a whole host of other issues. It’s also really interesting to see how free and open source fits into all of this. What are the tools like?

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NOVEMBER 26, 2007

I have two other wikis ( a public and private wiki) that are in Mediawiki, on my web host. I love it because it’s really easy to set up and back up (it’s all files, not in a database,) and it’s has draft autosaves (yay!). And I contribute to varied other wikis, which are on varied other wiki platforms. This is SO great!

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Explore common pitfalls and ask questions of our experts including: Amy Sample Ward, NTEN Membership Director. Amy's dedication to educating and supporting nonprofit and community organizations in using technology to make lasting change brought her to NTEN as the Membership Director. RSVP to join us live on November 17 at 10 a.m.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

If a social mashup starts making money from ads, how would that be split up between the host site, the app developer, and all the other applications or social networks from which that mashup pulls data? O’Reilly doesn’t really have an answer for that one.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 15, 2007

They are going to release an open source version later this year, which is wonderful, but I also would have had to pony up another $149 for a year of a Pro account, and that seemed excessive, since I could just as easily set up a Wordpress blog on the host I’m already paying for.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Proposed solution: CC developed Red House 2009, which had three event components: Traditional cocktail party for its major donors, Nonevent called Stay@Home, and. Hosted parties called Red House@Your House. It was to serve as the kickoff for Red House 2009 and was hosted by a board member.

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