Tech Soup

DECEMBER 4, 2015

A decade and a half into the digital century, the vast majority of large foundations concerned with strengthening American democracy don't seem to get tech. The fact that the $78 million awarded for technology funding in 2011 declined to $61 million in 2012 and $58 million in 2013 does not necessarily indicate a trend.

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NTEN

MAY 20, 2011

In the News A big congratulations to John Merritt for his nomination and award as a 2011 Top Tech Exec from San Diego Magazine ! Each year, NTEN conducts a Community Survey to compile and share a report on the state of the nonprofit technology sector. Have more news to share? Drop us a line or include your links in the comments!

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2011

A monthly roundup of our favorite nonprofit tech resources and other goodies. Get the skinny in the report we co-authored with Idealware, " A Consumers Guide to Low Cost Donor Management Systems ", updated for 2011. The formula we used is simple: Good content = good SEO. Watch out for anybody who says otherwise.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2011

Each year, NTEN recognizes a member of this community who has furthered the work of the nonprofit technology field through dedication, innovation, and leadership. They set out to create a digital bulletin board service for the local community. Although Judy claims to be “retired” she is a very active participant in the tech community.

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NTEN

MAY 20, 2013

In the NTEN community, the concept of "IT Staff" has been more fluid and inclusive, but we also know that many nonprofit professionals who have information technology responsibilities are either not given formal "information technology" titles, or don''t self-identify as "IT Staff" -- and often both cases are true for an individual.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 2, 2013

Plenary: Placing Little Bets: Failing Informatively for NPTECH Innovation: Beth Kanter, Erin Shy, Megan Kashner, Brian Reich, Allison Burns. This highly interactive and engaging community conversation will look at how nonprofits can create a culture of experimenting, testing, learning and correcting. NpTech Fail.

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NTEN

JANUARY 14, 2013

By Debra Askanase, Community Organzier 2.0 This spring, the New York City Elder Abuse Center (the Center) began its journey from a traditional, “non-social” organization to one that uses and embraces social media in both its communications and internal processes. The knowledge doesn't just reside with one person."

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NTEN

JULY 14, 2010

You, dear NTEN community, know the importance of technology in meeting your missions. So, yes, the Academy will require commitment, but, knowing our community, we don't expect that will be a problem for you. Tags: Budget Change Management Infrastructure Leadership microsoft NPTech NTEN Planning Social Media Web Sites.

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NTEN

JULY 2, 2010

(Note: This is a weekly round-up of NTEN members doing and sharing their nptech awesome. Tag your own news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome online, or contact Annaliese with your updates.) . You can see the aggregated Tweets from the NYC 501 Tech Club here. Members are in bold.

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NTEN

MARCH 28, 2011

Artez Interactive For Fun Did you miss Rob Cottingham's cartoon coverage of the conference?

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NTEN

JULY 6, 2011

flickr: Horia Varlan Like all organizations, the staff at NTEN does our best to stay in tune with our awesome community; but every once in a while we find ourselves in a bubble or at least not fully understanding what new decisions will look like from the outside. Do you have to be an NTEN member to participate in a CoP?

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

This time I’ll review some new developments in privacy and security, social media, cloud computing, digital inclusion, gaming for good, and the new tech blog, Re/code. There’s lots of interesting NPTech news this month. As I suspected, privacy and security remain a very hot topic in NPTech and in the general tech zeitgeist.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

A monthly roundup of our favorite nonprofit tech resources and other goodies. The NTEN community can save $50 on the National Conference for Media Reform , taking place in Boston, April 8-10, with the code NTEN_NCMR. Read more posts on our blog. Classic chicken v egg: Is there more data because there are more techies?

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Tech Soup

JULY 29, 2014

High-Tech Help for Homelessness. A recent study by California nonprofit Community Technology Alliance found that almost 70% of the homeless people surveyed in their county did have a mobile phone. Do you have some NPTech news you’d like to report? nonprofit technology news nptech NPTech news cloud computing'

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NTEN

DECEMBER 11, 2012

I think that the best thing that happened in 2012 was that some of the 2010-2011 "bleedng edge" conceptual technologies stood up and proved they weren't fads. When NTEN asked me to write a "best tech of 2012" post, I struggled a bit. Nonprofit Technologist. Techcafeteria.

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NTEN

MAY 3, 2012

This month, our new Members were interested in ways to engage the community and access our resources on databases. Free Report: 2011 Consumers Guide to Low Cost Donor Management Systems Report Blog Post: WordPress vs Drupal. >> Find a 501 Tech Club near you ! All of the groups are free to attend, and open to everyone. >>

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NTEN

OCTOBER 8, 2010

Flickr: Chad_Norman (Note: This is a weekly round-up of NTEN members doing and sharing their nptech awesome. Tag your own news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome online, or contact Annaliese with your updates.) . NTEN's online community of Affinity Groups. Members are in bold.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Last week, I facilitated an interactive keynote in Seattle at 2011 Tech for Good Leadership Summit sponsored by Microsoft Community Affairs , in partnership with NPower Seattle. By all accounts , the event held the space for peer learning. Watech4good Summit. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 20, 2010

So far, their tireless efforts to funnel strategic information, supportive community and valuable opportunities our way have been pretty monumental on minimal funding. NTEN's work is vital to fostering impact in the nonprofit community. I can't wait to see what we'll all get with some proper funding in their hands.

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NTEN

JANUARY 4, 2011

To accomplish that, we need your help with the 2011 scholarship campaign. While we've used the humiliation of the NTEN staff as bait for raising the money in the past (as forever preserved by YouTube ), this year we're hoping we can count on the creativity of the community.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 20, 2010

So far, their tireless efforts to funnel strategic information, supportive community and valuable opportunities our way have been pretty monumental on minimal funding. NTEN's work is vital to fostering impact in the nonprofit community. I can't wait to see what we'll all get with some proper funding in their hands.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 29, 2010

A monthly roundup of our favorite nonprofit tech resources and other goodies. XKCD has finally updated its Map of Online Communities , showing the size of Facebook relative to its smaller brethren. Tags: NPTech NTEN Things We Like. Read more posts on our blog. Effective data visualization is the future of nonprofit storytelling.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

By September of 2011 Google+ quickly grew to about 20 million to 40 million account users (depending on who you ask) and had about 12.3 Be sure and also check out the great Google+ list over at Nonprofit Tech 2.0. Ever since Google+ launched, people have debated whether it can truly compete with rivals Twitter and Facebook.

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Tech Soup

JULY 11, 2011

This post was written by Evonne Heyning , part of TechSoup's community team. community endeavor and we have assembled a talented list of production. Why Is Community Essential to Social Video Success? Fall of 2011 documenting the impact on kids and families along the. Ahead of our July 20 episode of Nonprofits Live.

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NTEN

APRIL 25, 2012

Now here's the rub: for this to work for you and the community, plan to answer twice as many questions as you ask. Second, it helps build a community of trust and collaboration: the "I know I will get three or more good ideas" as well as, "I had that experience!" IFRC joined in early 2011. The benefit?

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2013

I posted some nonprofit technology trends and news late last month, but found some late breaking nptech news items I wanted to add. NPTech Innovation in Eastern Europe. NPTech Online Fundraising Trends. Online revenue grew by 21 percent since 2011. We sincerely invite your nonprofit or library tech news nominations.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

All Parent Centers have the same mission: to help families of children with disabilities succeed in life, find tools and resources, and develop advocacy strategies despite the many barriers including segregated classrooms, inaccessible communities, and old cultural belief systems about disability. What Holly said in a recent tweet!)

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NTEN

APRIL 26, 2012

NTCwinning 1: The Community Photo by Trav Williams You. The community showed up for the 2012 NTC. As controversial as it was, it really gave a lot of fuel to some thinking we need to be doing as a community. Here are a few areas we thought were pretty successful. (It 1772 to be exact. Amazing social discourse!

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TechImpact

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Check out these other compelling statistics: Over 75% of the leading nonprofits are engaged in tech planning and adoption. Inversely, over 50% of struggling nonprofits are not engaged in tech planning and adoption (YIKES!). Nonprofits of all sizes averaged a Tech Effectiveness Score (TES) of 18.27 and high adoption levels.

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NetWits

APRIL 11, 2012

Rachel Weidinger and Lara Franklin, Senior Marketing Manager at TechSoup Global did a session that took a deep dive into getting the most out of your email communications by looking at how Tech Soup has been doing effective email communications for years. If they don’t, consider outsourcing the work. 6) Gaming for Good.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 1, 2011

Instead, in 2007, we started stocking it with articles written by members of our community. This shift also aligned nicely with one of our core values: providing a platform for our community's views. Rather than hand-picking topics and authors, we invited the community to write about anything they wanted. The Experiment.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 18, 2012

The big nonprofit tech trends this past year seemed to be in the areas of making websites viewable on mobile phones, using mobile phones more in the workplace, cloud computing, social media fundraising, foundations and Microsoft donations, greater self-sufficiency among NGOs in developing countries, and some cutting edge things like hackathons.

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NTEN

AUGUST 20, 2010

(Note: This is a weekly round-up of NTEN members doing and sharing their nptech awesome. Tag your own news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome online, or contact Annaliese with your updates.) Allyson Kapin offers some good reminders/tips for engaging your supporters. Members are in bold.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 23, 2013

This month the news is about ultramobile devices, NPTech innovation in Eastern Europe, Windows 8 Apps for Social Good Winners, online fundraising trends, a new Pinterest analytics tool, the emergence of digital wallets, and Ginny Mies pick for the environmental mobile app of the month in honor or Earth Day 2013. Here's the latest.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 9, 2012

Whatever your passion – from mapping urban trees to advising nonprofits or building apps to make information more accessible – tune in to your ever-active nonprofit technology community to be inspired and stay connected! The report is a product of the Technology for Engagement Summit which convened early this summer.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

She is one of our great online community organizers. In 2013, she co-authored Social Change Anytime Everywhere: How to implement online multichannel strategies to spark advocacy, raise money, and engage your community with Allyson Kaplin. Beth Kanter won the NTEN Award in2007: Most Valuable Person in NpTech field.

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