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How Do We Balance Measuring Outcomes with Measuring to Learn and Improve? (#SM_RE)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The framework also works well as a benchmarking tool so a group of similar organizations working together as a movement can learn from one another. This makes easier to embrace a key principle of movement building “sharing and documenting practices” that Rachel Weidinger shared during her session at NTC last week.

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10NTC: IT Pros Share How to Deal with Technophobes

Tech Soup

One of the biggest issues that surfaced at the IT Directors Affinity Group at NTC on Thursday was that many nonprofit employees are a hard sell when it comes to new technology. So today's Articulating Tech: How to Win Friends and Influence Luddites turned out to be a pretty fitting followup session for that discussion.

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You're Invited to the Tech Leadership Academy

NTEN

At the end of the 9 weeks, you'll be able to: Articulate the value of technology in your organization for yourself, your staff, funders, and other key stakeholders. By the way, participants will be able to earn points toward special software donations from Microsoft, free 2011 NTC registrations, and more!). >

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ROI (Results on Insights) of Online Communities

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In order for your community strategy to be sustainable, you need to be able to articulate value back to the organization. This value has to be articulated, at least in part, in the cultural language of your organization. Nonprofits have the Social Network Calculator from Care2. I'd love to see some more. .

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Social Actions API, Semantic Web, and Linked Open Data: An Interview with Peter Deitz

Amy Sample Ward

Around the time of the Nonprofit Technology Network ’s 2008 NTC conference, an even brighter light bulb went on. Three months later I had a prototype platform aggregating actions from RSS feeds, with a search element around that content.

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Penguin Day Reflections: OS as FairTrade, OS Feminism, and OS - the Next Generation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

happen in different locations several times a year and for the past three years, these meetings have taken place after the annual NTC: Nonprofit Technology Conference. A group dialogue followed allowing people to articulate why they felt one way or other. Penguin Days. Last Saturday, I attended my first one.

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11 Expert Tips for Nonprofits to Embrace Technology for Even Greater Impact

Connection Cafe

Last week I had the privilege of networking with over 2000 nonprofit experts and professionals at NTEN ‘s Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC). ” The importance of being able to articulate the need for tech to achieve their mission. You have to tie the need for technology up to all of your strategic goals.