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NTEN and TechSoup Webinar: Share Your Story - ROI and Social Media - Slides and Notes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last year at this time, I was writing the chapter on ROI in the soon to be published book from NTEN called " Managing Your Mission." What's Up With Feedburner by Beth Kanter Google Analytics Primer sponsored by NTEN with screencast and wiki created by Beth Kanter Using Postrank To Evaluate the Top Content on my blog by Beth Kanter.

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Should CEOs and Executive Directors Use Social Media?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Here are some good examples of CEO and Executive Director use of social media in the US social sector: Holly Ross is the executive director of NTEN, the nonprofit technology network in the US. She uses Twitter to share what's going on at NTEN, announce new initiatives, and have conversations with NTEN members.

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Building and Supporting Your Drupal Website: In-House, Outsourced, or Both?

NTEN

If critical functions like fundraising, advocacy, community building, membership management, marketing, and publicity are being fulfilled by your website, you will want to invest a proportional amount of time and money into keeping it humming along. There are many different types of “blended models” of in-house/outhouse support.

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MCON13 Live Blog: Millennial Service (Paul Schmitz, Soma and Rachael Chong, Catchafire)

NTEN

This is the essence of leadership Keys to Practicing Values Recognizing and mobilizing all of the community''s assets. I see leadership to build community from bottom up. Eventually wound up in microfinance with FINCA for 6 months, which blended her passion and talents. Be: who am I as a leader? You have to be deliberate.

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Do You Need a “Communications Manager” or a “Community Manager” at Your Nonprofit?

NTEN

By Annaliese Hoehling, Publications Director, NTEN. The community manager has been around longer than you may think – and I'm not trying to be like Malcolm Gladwell by drawing (questionable) parallels to pre-Internet practices. Today's Community Manager had her start in the chat rooms and discussion/support forums of yesteryear.

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The 5 Best Social Impact Games of 2010

NTEN

By Jeff Ramos, Community and Content Manager, Games for Change When most people outside gaming think of video games, they typically fall into three buckets: "old school" games like Super Mario and Tetris, social and mobile games like Farmville and Angry Birds, or hyper-violent console games like Grand Theft Auto.

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10 Best Practices for Planning Successful Crowd Funding or Giving Day Campaigns

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The next day, I facilitated a workshop on Best Practices for Crowd Funding that blended traditional instruction with innovation lab facilitation techniques. Take a look at the NTEN Crowd Funding Campaign to raise money for scholarships to its annual conference. 10: Leverage the momentum of a local or national Giving Day.

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