NTEN

JANUARY 11, 2011

Gift information helps you understand how frequently they donate or what specific projects they support. Aim for at least two as you begin this process and don't try to get too specific until you have stronger data and a better understanding of your database. Donors like to know that their individual efforts are making a difference.

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Care2

JULY 16, 2012

There are a ton of smart people writing about nonprofit technology and communications to help nonprofit communicators keep up on the latest online trends and developments. When you need to take a really deep dive into critical topics, but don’t want to rely on your own trial and error it helps to look beyond blogs and social media.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 22, 2011

[Note: The following is an excerpt of an article in the December 2011 issue of NTEN:Change. Consider using an outside facilitator to help develop questions and protocol and to help identify themes from your data. Databases - Nonprofits can use these tools to track data in real time and report on results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

Colleagues Allyson Kapin who founded a web agency called Rad Campaign (they designed my blog) and Amy Sample Ward, who the NTEN Membership Director (and I’ve known since 2007 ) have published a new how to book called “ Social Change Any Time Every Where.” Database Manager. Internet Director. Web Producer.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

According to the 2011 Nonprofit Social Networking Benchmark Report , nine out of 10 nonprofits have a standard Facebook page. How is this information funneled into a database outside of your standard Facebook page? Technology can help as well. Having a centralized database used by all areas of your nonprofit is essential.

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NTEN

APRIL 26, 2012

As Holly wrote in the #NTCFail blog post outlining the things that didn’t go as planned at the event, we value being open and accountable at NTEN. As a small nonprofit we have struggled to fully engage with technology to help us fulfill our mission. Yes, the counter to #NTCfail is #NTCwinning. This was my "aha" moment.

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NTEN

APRIL 15, 2010

That's why we were particularly pleased to learn that Yaw Anokwa -- a lead developer on Open Data Kit , a modular set of tools helping nonprofits around the world collect data, via mobile phones, on everything from deforestation to human rights violations -- has won the fourth annual Antonio Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public Interest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2010

On Thursday, April 9th at 8:00 am, we kicked off the tenth Annual Day of Service at NTEN's NTC which was a resounding success! I remember a hot consulting topic was how to get your database off those 3x5 cards into an excel spreadsheet or how to mail merge in Outlook to send out an e-newsletter. . See you in 2011 in Washington, DC.

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NTEN

APRIL 25, 2012

NTEN and TechSoup list a few. Social Butterfly has an interesting list of helpful list-servs. First, the help you receive is proportional to what you give. 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!" The benefit?

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Collaboration New Hampshire Classroom NGO 75

NTEN

DECEMBER 19, 2011

[Editor's note: The following is an excerpt of an article in the December 2011 issue of NTEN:Change. Consider using an outside facilitator to help develop questions and protocol and to help identify themes from your data. Databases - Nonprofits can use these tools to track data in real time and report on results.

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Measure Issue Impact Method 81

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2012

She is also the Membership Director at NTEN: The Nonprofit Technology Network. her work appears on CNN.com and Entrepreneur.com, and the’s the author of a forthcoming white paper from the ZeroDivide Foundation about opportunities to use mobile to help serve and empower people in poor/marginalized US communities. Ace: Do One Thing.

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Mobile Conference Resource Social 99

NTEN

APRIL 4, 2011

For those of you who have read Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard , by Chip and Dan Heath – or if you were at the 2011 NTC and saw Dan's Plenary – you've probably already started thinking about the Direct-Motivate-Shape the Path triumverate for helping people change their behavior.

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Action Work Advocacy NTC 59

Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2013

This is similar to the success of projects like Restart Romania in which social activists got help to develop online tools to address corruption in high places, and also a national website for tracking medication shortages in Romania. The annual 2013 eNonprofit Benchmark Study by NTEN and M+R Strategic Services is now out.

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Phone News Technology Free 48

NTEN

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

[Editor's Note: We're talking about fundraising this month on the NTEN blog, and when you're fundraising, you've got to collect and track information about donors and donations, right? In the 2011 Consumers Guide to Low Cost Donor Management Systems , we look at a lot of technology solutions designed to do exactly that.

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Database Track Donor Gift 59

NTEN

JANUARY 19, 2011

If you think that a mash-up of online tools for capacity mapping and resource matching would assist nonprofits, philanthropies, and the communities that they serve, then we invite you join us at our upcoming session at the 2011 Nonprofit Technology Conference. How can online tools help a project succeed? Dynamic information.

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Map Picture Resource NTC 63

ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 6, 2012

It's the best guide for helping nonprofits establish a technology strategy that I've seen so far. It's a few years old now, but I still think it is excellent for helping organizations determine where they are, and where they need to go. Another great tech resource for nonprofits is the Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN).

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 18, 2012

These are events that pair up nonprofits with good ideas and volunteer techies who can help them realize them. State of the Nonprofit Cloud survey conducted by NTEN. Smartphone shipments exceeded those of PCs in 2011. Money raised on crowdfunding sites is estimated to be 91 percent higher than 2011.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 9, 2012

A new report, "Digital Citizenship: Exploring the Field of Tech for Engagement", released by the Knight Foundation, explores the potential for technology to improve democracy -- specifically at how it can help people engage with their communities, leaders, and governments.

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Research Ideas Tools Survey 67

Tech Soup

APRIL 23, 2013

This is similar to the success of projects like Restart Romania in which social activists got help to develop online tools to address corruption in high places, and also a national website for tracking medication shortages in Romania. The annual 2013 eNonprofit Benchmark Study by NTEN and M+R Strategic Services is now out.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

We lead off with Amy Sample Ward who is the executive director of NTEN , the big membership organization of nonprofit technology professionals. Beth Kanter won the NTEN Award in2007: Most Valuable Person in NpTech field. He got the NTEN Award IN 2011. Amy Sample Ward. She is one of our great online community organizers.

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