Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 14, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants April 14, 2008 I like hosting the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants. And I get to highlight the work of some of my favorite bloggers, too.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 2, 2011

Flickr:Dunechaser NTEN members hope you'll read their ebook, attend webinar, and even host a supper this week. Volunteer, host, and gather for America's Sunday Supper. Salsa Labs is hosting a free webinar on December 13th about Engaging your Community and Your Crowd. The presenter is NTEN's own Amy Sample Ward !

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

We now have over 50 cities globally hosting monthly events with many more getting started. NetSquared’s hosted Challenges for 3 years now, surfacing hundreds of innovative technologies for social impact. I’m also a contributor to Socialbrite, NTEN, Women Who Tech and other industry leading collaborations.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Explore common pitfalls and ask questions of our experts including: Amy Sample Ward, NTEN Membership Director. Amy's dedication to educating and supporting nonprofit and community organizations in using technology to make lasting change brought her to NTEN as the Membership Director. RSVP to join us live on November 17 at 10 a.m.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 30, 2013

If you haven't heard, during the month of April TechSoup is hosting our 4 th annual Digital Storytelling Challenge designed to inspire, educate, and empower nonprofits, libraries and social good organizations to tell their story through video and photos. The 2013 Digital Storytelling Challenge is underway!

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Naples, Florida, is hosting a meetup on tools for effective email fundraising ; Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, is hosting a series of Giving Tuesday brainstorming sessions ; and Chicago, Illinois, will explore how your CRM can save end-of-year fundraising plans. NTEN Presents: Oregon Nonprofit Tech Roundup. and the globe.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 1, 2013

The npEXPERTS e-book includes Forbes’ most influential, top bloggers, CFRE/ACFREs, animal lovers and association pros, pioneers and innovators, peer-to-peer fundraisers and direct response agitators, online fundraisers and direct mail gurus, all in one place. Want to Raise Money Online?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2017

I’ve just returned from a two-week trip to Guatemala hosted by Wake. Nonprofit blogger Vu Lee has some tips on what types of openers to avoid. I’ve just returned from a two-week trip to Guatemala hosted by Wake. A Few Examples of Good Openers. If you want to learn more and you are attending the NTC, come join us!

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 29, 2009

The strategists – located in New York, San Francisco, Boston, Los Angeles and London – are: Beth Kanter, a longtime trainer and advisor to the Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN) and other organizations. Lasica, a social media pioneer who co-founded Ourmedia.org, the first video hosting and sharing site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Blackbaud just finished hosting a pretty large conference for the non-profit industry. Social Media: Paint by the Numbers with Holly Ross of NTEN. Guest Post by Frank Barry: Social Media for Social Good Video Roundup from #BBCon Blackbaud just finished hosting a pretty large conference for the non-profit industry. [.].

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Where Do I Host It? Once you determine your resources, internal assets, and what types of videos you're interested in creating, the next move is to look at video hosting. Of course, the biggest player is YouTube -- for many good reasons -- but there are myriad other options for hosting. At Pathfinder, this is a big concern.

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Care2

APRIL 7, 2010

What an incredible line up of panels the folks at NTEN programmed for the 10th annual NTC - scheduled for April 8th - 10th in Atlanta. For those of you in DC who can't make it to NTC this year, Care2 is hosting a remote viewing party on Friday, April 9th. Have some favorite panels of your own? Let us know in the comments section.

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NTEN

AUGUST 10, 2010

In chatting with my hosts at the Colorado Nonprofit Association, they made it clear that the nonprofits I would be talking with work on a different scale, and I would need to address how nonprofits that work in small towns and rural spaces can use social media. The next day, several area bloggers wrote about the event.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

Then, all monthly hosting fees are waved if more than a certain amount of money is transacted using the payment system. The hosting costs, if you don’t qualify for free hosting, are pretty reasonable. Matt Asay, blogger of all things in open source biz models, thinks Google Code may have overtaken Sourceforge.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

So I thought it would be a great subject for the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants hosted here today. IDI’s Blogger Relations has some good ideas and resources on data management – they suggest, and I agree that it is critical to managing fundraising strategy. I wish all nonprofits understood this!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

So I thought it would be a great subject for the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants hosted here today. IDI’s Blogger Relations has some good ideas and resources on data management – they suggest, and I agree that it is critical to managing fundraising strategy. I wish all nonprofits understood this!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 24, 2008

It basically eliminates comment spam, which, as you probably know, is the bane of bloggers everywhere. But if your organization decides to blog, and you want to make it easy on yourself, install Wordpress on your hosting account, or go to WordPress.com and set up a free blog. WordPress is expandable with tons of plugins.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2010

In a follow up blog post by Pamela Passman, Senior Vice President of Global Affairs, who was our host for the event, she amplifies this point. “Our citizenship work is grounded in the power of our people, our products and our partners to address social and economic opportunity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2008

Jay Dedman is going to lead a video blogging workshop in New Orleans as part of the line up for the NTEN's NTC Day of Service 2008. Disclosure: This is a paid gig I do to coordinate the event and have done for the past 7 years). The rest of the line up includes the installation of a wireless network project at the Community Center of St.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Greg Ligon, our guest blogger for the Social Media for Nonprofits conference, is an online communications professional with experience in building a brand via online channels, social media communications, and website content development. Learn more about Greg on LinkedIn.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

There is also a groundswell of support all over the Internet, from bloggers ( one blog at a time ) Facebook , Flickr , Online Petitions , mobile phones , and Second Life. LolNptech commentary about a recent NTEN Discuss List thread. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

Laura Quinn in her introductory post on the Open Content for Nonprofits NTEN Affinity group points to an article. NTEN blog points us to Code for Change this Summer , an opportunity for those with drupal skills to put them to good use. What about other conference attendees who might also be bloggers? Where's the conference tag?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

They are hosting a contest to win $10,000K to celebrate their launch. Tactical Philanthropy Blog notes that the next Giving Carnival will focus on Fundraising for Nonprofits and will be hosted by Gayle Roberts. The Cambodia Bloggers Summit and the Boliva Blogosphere will have their first ever bloggers conferences on Blog Day !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2007

As promised, Ihere's a copy of the release form that NTEN used for the " This I Change" video project. We gots questions about blogging platforms, feeds, distribution, video hosts, compression, editing software and more. Little did I know that I was going to receive the first annual NTEN Award and wasn't in the ballroom.!)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

Here's what some nonprofit technology bloggers posted - Paul Lamb , Allison Fine , and Deborah Finn. The Getting Attention Blog hosted a Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants on the topic of Professional Development for nonprofit marketers. You have to be an NTEN member to participate and you have to be the first one to email Gavin.)

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NTEN

APRIL 13, 2013

NTEN isn''t an organization, we''re a community – a community with a shared set of values , including authenticity, sharing, and of course, laughter. who embodies those values and enhances the NTEN community. In short, they embody NTEN''s Values. So thank you for being a vital part of the NTEN community.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

September 17, 2007 There is an interesting discussion happening between Holly Ross, soon to be ED of NTEN, and Allan Benamer , about web statistics, and whether or not nonprofits should be “transparent&# and publish their web statistics. And, he thinks that NTEN should be responsive to him, as a member, in asking to publish web stats.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 15, 2007

Blogger's angst. Almost a year ago, NTEN hosted a field wide discussion about the need for nonprofit tech vendors, particularly CRM systems for online fundraising, to offer open APIs. (A Michelle Murrain, NTEN board member and NOSI leader - and author of Nonprofit API white paper has insightful analysis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2008

NpTech Conversations Wild Apricot Blog is hosting next week's Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants on the topic "How are non-profits using Web 2.0 I suspect NTEN's presence in Portland has something to do it! Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. And if you???re

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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! In the nonprofit sector, there were not many bloggers in 2004. My first steps. I also discovered the gopher!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2009

Get granular - figure how how many unique visits a particular blogger sent, a Facebook Event, or Digg. . Engagement: This is defined as the amount of time a person either participates within a dedicated or hosted Web community or service related to your brand, or interacts with someone from your organization online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

There are other nonprofit bloggers who do not use their real names. Building on Each Others Ideas Heather over at the Aspiration Blog hosted this week 's Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants which includes a good roundup of advice. Britt Bravo wrote a post called "Ten Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs and Bloggers" a while back.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

As FrogLoop blog concludes in its recent analysis of MySpace, "Social networking sites are essentially a microcosm of the internet, and hosting a profile on either is akin to managing a website. More On Social Networking for Social Change OneNorthWest recently hosted a seminar on social networking sites and environmental organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

I've had the pleasure of talking with Miles Maier face-to-face last month in Birmingham at the UK Circuit Riders conference hosted by LASA. The blog is a pretty new thing to me and I get a tremendous amount of value out of the blog through connections I've made with other bloggers talking about the same things that interest me.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 18, 2008

Before you feel like it is necessary to host a community or answer the posts, take some time to really understand what people are saying and who they are. The bloggers who cover journalism and blogs by newspapers are great resources on this topic - particularly about whether or not to edit comments by readers: [link].

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Forum One

OCTOBER 22, 2007

Read More » Webinar Recap: Foundations and Online Collaboration Joe Anderson in Influence 24 Jun 2010 Forum One hosted a webinar on June 23 on online collaboration for philanthropic organizations. In part one, we looked at determing the value of creating a collaboration community.If

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Forum One

APRIL 19, 2006

Read More » Webinar Recap: Foundations and Online Collaboration Joe Anderson in Influence 24 Jun 2010 Forum One hosted a webinar on June 23 on online collaboration for philanthropic organizations. In part one, we looked at determing the value of creating a collaboration community.If

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