Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

This post originally appeared on NTEN's blog. This is the second in a fantastic series of guest posts by the authors of Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission. New applications and technologies are being developed at a rapid pace. For hardware, the time that differentiates what is "new" and "passé" is becoming shortened.

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NTEN

MAY 18, 2009

Here are highlights from the web of NTEN members doing their, you know, NTEN-type awesomeness: NARAL-Pro Choice America launched a contest on Twitter last week: submit hashtag (#) ideas for aggregating the discussion around "the Supreme Court battle that's just around the corner." Tags: NPTech nten members.

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NTEN

JANUARY 28, 2015

Did you know that over 64% of nonprofits include technology in their strategic plan, and there''s been an increase in the number of "data" staff at nonprofits? These are some of the key findings from last year''s Nonprofit Technology Staffing & Investments research.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 28, 2014

We at NTEN are finally working on a website overhaul and re-launch in earnest. After all, the nonprofit association for people working at the intersection of technology and social change should have a website to match that mission and vision. Learn about becoming an NTEN Member? Engage with NTEN''s online communities?

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

note: This is the second in a fantastic series of guest posts by the authors of Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission. New applications and technologies. This brave new world of touchscreens, aggregated data, and pastel AJAX-based social networking sites, is partly. if not free) technologies. Your new iPhone.

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NTEN

MAY 24, 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.) Look, we all know that social media isn't "the answer"for nonprofit fundraising.

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AFP Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN) Group News | LinkedIn: "New applications and technologies are being developed at a rapid pace.

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NTEN

APRIL 17, 2009

Flickr: cogdogblog Judy Hallman always rocks the power of wikis for knowledge aggregation and collaboration. There's a lot of good info there on nonprofit technology topics, so even if you're not from the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area, you might want to take a gander at the notes ! 2009 NTENny Spotlight: David Krumlauf.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2010

Their strategy focuses on technology and partnerships that can accelerate systemic on the ground social change and economic issues. Microsoft researchers are collaborating with the academic community on environmental problems, such as aggregation and visualization of complex scientific data from many sources.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

This week, as part of Member Appreciation Month, we're talking about technology that supports communications and information, so I thought I'd share some of the metrics we use to track our effectiveness that don't really warrant a complete blog post in-and-of themselves. We'd also love to hear about your favorite metrics. E-mail Metrics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2009

Presentation by Laura Lee Dooley a metrics and social media geek for a nonprofit. In the introduction, Lon talks about how he uses Twitter everyday in his nonprofit job. I'd like to point a few examples that were not on his list and share some good nonprofit Twitter resources. Where To Connect With Other Nonprofits.

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AFP Blog

APRIL 5, 2007

Another tool for finding postings and articles from NTENNTC Pipe | NTEN: The Nonprofit Technology Network: "Riding the wave of yesterday's announcement of NTEN's NPTech Pipe, we have added an additional pipe to the NPTech Pipe that aggregates all NTC tagged/related postings and articles."

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NTEN

OCTOBER 5, 2010

By Grant Howe, VP Research and Development, Nonprofit Solutions, Sage Business Solutions. What will the nonprofit office of the future look like? Corporations and nonprofits alike are rapidly embracing the practice of letting employees work remotely. Advances in mobile technology are significantly changing how we live and work.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 15, 2009

Change the Web Challenge: Finalists Announced - I'm really excited about the 24 Finalists in the Change the Web Challenge - this Challenge called for new applications that use Social Actions' API which aggregates and surfaces all kinds of actionable opportunities from around the web. Check them out!

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NTEN

JANUARY 31, 2013

A monthly roundup of our favorite nonprofit tech resources and other goodies. Tis the season: the season for Google Flu Trends to demonstrate the power of aggregated search data. Yes, it's awesome -- but if you type in NTEN HQ's address, you get stuck in a curio store. And a nonprofit made it. of an ABBA song.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

NTEN and Mobile Citizen are teaming up for this survey to better understand online technology and digital inclusion among nonprofits and the communities nonprofits serve. Throughout this digital adoption survey, we define digital divide as any barrier that prevents people from being able to access technology.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

Your guide to the resources that will help you put technology to work for your cause. Setting aside the whole greed-as-motivation issue that got us into this mess in the first place, it's a bad assumption because it's becoming harder and harder to land a job at a nonprofit. Tags: IT staffing NPTech jobs NTEN how to.

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NTEN

APRIL 8, 2015

Following are a few aggregated data points from your evaluations, on a scale of 1-7 (1 = Poor, 7 = Excellent): Overall Session Rating: 6 Did the content of this session match your expectations? Speaker Lineup We often get questions regarding how well the speakers represent the NTEN Community at large. Interested in participating?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology My wish for Web 2.5 These are sites that are simply aggregators of the blogs of those involved in a particular open source project (like, in this case, women involved in Ubuntu ).

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 8, 2011

It’s so easy to use, and has so much potential for the nonprofit sector, that I couldn’t wait any longer to show it to you! As soon as the question is live, you start seeing the impressions and the responses, aggregated in real time. Qriously for Nonprofits. It’s incredible!

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Whether your nonprofit organization provides services or advocates for a cause, your stakeholders have common interests. The nonprofit technology community is a robust knowledge sharing network widely dispersed across many blogs, tweets, discussion boards, Facebook walls, etc. Some are successful, but messy.

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NTEN

JULY 30, 2010

A monthly roundup of our favorite nonprofit tech resources. You should probably know, however, that human beings have spent 15 years in aggregate watching " Surprised Kitty " -- longer than it took to land a man on the moon. The Networked Nonprofit , Beth Kanter and Allison Fine. Tags: NPTech NTEN Things We Like.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Web 2.0 Or that a certain nonprofit Executive Director Dugg a post about starting a video game company? » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 01.04.08

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NTEN

JUNE 11, 2010

Right now, in our sector, we need technology leaders. When you started this work, technology was all servers, Cat5 and HTML. When you started this work, technology was all servers, Cat5 and HTML. Technology was all about storing stuff and moving it around more efficiently. Invest in technology instead of spending.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Your nonprofit is thriving and bursting with activity that should be shared with the world through any and every marketing channel available. Miller's idea was that you don't have to be Martha Stuart or Julia Child to put together an enticingly delicious pre sentation of your nonprofit. Your cause is worthy. It's just not realistic.

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NTEN

MAY 11, 2009

And now, Melanie Mathos and the good folks at Blackbaud have co-opted the technology for the nonprofit world. Dave Winer has a new project: aggregating the tweets of the 100 most followed tweeters. Tags: NPTech NTEN. If you ask her really nicely, she might even tell you how to do it. Check it out.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Social Networks and Digital Sharecropping October 1, 2007 I was reading Deborah Finn’s curmugeonly post about Facebook. When all of those happen, I’ll be the first to sign up. {

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

Facebook is also a great tool for nonprofits. More people can find out about your Nonprofit because your Facebook Page gets indexed and is searchable inside and outside (i.e. No limit on the number of people who can express their support for your nonprofit by becoming your fan. People can find you via Google. Stand up 2 Cancer.

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NTEN

MARCH 11, 2011

Fortunately, the quick response to the quake, especially in the realm of technology, has been equally impressive. Just a few short years ago, technology in disaster response was a different animal all together. Within a week came the Katrina People Finder , aggregating data into one central location.

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NTEN

APRIL 24, 2009

The 2009 Nonprofit Technology Conference starts in just two days. Of course, we're going to aggregate photos, videos, blog posts, and various other content tagged "09NTC" But that's just the beginning. It's entirely up to you whether or not to sip a beverage as you follow along, Tags: 09NTC NPTech NTEN.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

In addition to running a youth organization or a job training program or an environmental advocacy campaign, you are also running an information and technology system on which you do your work. CrisisCamps are independent, disbursed, volunteer efforts to develop lightweight technology solutions to help with disaster relief.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

In addition to running a youth organization or a job training program or an environmental advocacy campaign, you are also running an information and technology system on which you do your work. CrisisCamps are independent, disbursed, volunteer efforts to develop lightweight technology solutions to help with disaster relief.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2010

I've always evangelized the potential of tools like Facebook and Twitter to create meaningful communities and collaborations, but now realize the true opportunity for all of us who spend our days mixing up cocktails of mission and technology: . As Robert Scoble pointed out, "It's not so much about technology but people."

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NTEN

MAY 12, 2011

These days everyone is releasing it, visualizing it, aggregating it, and mashing it up. And chances are your nonprofit, government agency, foundation, or research institution has gobs of it just sitting around. He also advises senior executives about technology, trends, investment planning, and execution. And for good reason.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2008

On Monday, Chris Brogan is going to do an NTEN members-only expert session and I'm filling in for Holly Ross as one of the moderators. NTEN Members get exclusive access to ask questions and hear them answered, for free! This was all about early aggregation! I aggregated web sites for dance groups, dance companies, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

It will be interesting to see how this evolves given the technology platform came before the social design , but as online community pundits note, web2.0 The tagging community that lies beneath the npdigg structure has taggers, consumers, aggregators, and meta aggregators. applications have changed the rules of online community.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

In this article, we'll look at some examples of nonprofits on the cutting-edge of online mapping and GIS, and how they utilize place-related data to benefit their respective communities. Users don't just see aggregate statistics on a map, they get personalized recommendations with map features customized to the amenities they have chosen.

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