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DECEMBER 4, 2013

While most of us are familiar with the term user adoption, few of us have a flexibly toolkit of helpful strategies and ideas to turn the success of our technology project launch into a long-term success. Change Management implementation success Leadership Missy Longshore nptech nten Organizational Culture IT Staff'

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NTEN

APRIL 22, 2013

How do you adjust your IT and communications strategies in this brave new world? There is no such thing as the FAIL organization -- at least as far as we know -- and NTEN does not propose the actions described above. How does your communications team respond? What does your IT team do? Let us know in the comments! Image by Mike Licht.

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NTEN

AUGUST 11, 2010

Flickr: kool_skatkat Last month, NTEN's Executive Director, Holly Ross, posted a provocative article on our blog: " Rebranding the Accidental Techie." If you're a member of NTEN, you can read the entire thread and particpate here.). we'd love to hear your story and your advice to others.

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NTEN

APRIL 8, 2013

Are all of the posts and articles about “going mobile” and having a mobile strategy making you manic? While we’ve all come to terms with the fact that we live in a mobile world, what does it really mean for small nonprofits and membership organizations?

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NTEN

DECEMBER 3, 2013

Many executives don’t approach management and leadership in these areas with the same trepidation as they do technology. And yet the same skills that make any leader effective are appropriate to managing technology.

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NTEN

JUNE 5, 2013

Many executives don’t approach management and leadership in these areas with the same trepidation as they do technology. And yet the same skills that make any leader effective are appropriate to managing technology.

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NTEN

JUNE 12, 2013

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NTEN

JUNE 6, 2013

I was accustomed to meeting weekly to discuss a project’s progress and resolve any issues and requested changes. Project management seemed easy and straightforward. Change Management Leadership nonprofit management nonprofit technology leadership nptech Organizational Culture project management Strategy IT Staff'

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

All Parent Centers have the same mission: to help families of children with disabilities succeed in life, find tools and resources, and develop advocacy strategies despite the many barriers including segregated classrooms, inaccessible communities, and old cultural belief systems about disability. What Holly said in a recent tweet!)

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NTEN

JUNE 13, 2013

Change Management Community Leadership learning from failure nonprofit management nonprofit technology leadership nptech Organizational Culture Strategy technology failure stories' In the end, however, we all found that the failures were not of technology, but of leadership – and so were the lessons.

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NTEN

APRIL 13, 2013

13ntcbets Change Management fail Leadership npfail Organizational Culture Strategy' Sketchnotes: Placing Small Bets Here are my notes (1.6 MB) from this morning''s terrific panel about failing informatively. Small, productive failures FTW!

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NTEN

DECEMBER 9, 2013

I was accustomed to meeting weekly to discuss a project’s progress and resolve any issues and requested changes. Project management seemed easy and straightforward. Change Management Leadership nonprofit management nonprofit technology leadership nptech Organizational Culture project management Strategy IT Staff'

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NTEN

APRIL 5, 2013

When an organization embraces the culture of creating and empowering all staff to become “brand ambassadors,” authentic and exponential growth starts to happen. When organizations embrace this holistic culture, the nonprofit begins to come alive online. This isn’t a new concept. for " Ctrl. Rebooting Your Digital Community Building."

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NTEN

APRIL 24, 2013

13ntc Change Management Community illustrated notes nptech Organizational Culture Policy Staffing Strategy' Dan Pallotta''s keynote certainly had folks talking – and for a sketchnoter, inspired plenty of visual imagery. Click the image or Check out the full version to expand the notes (PNG, 242.7

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APRIL 13, 2013

13ntc Change Management Community nptech Organizational Culture session notes Strategy' Sketchnotes: Mindful or mind-full Since a big part of this session was on visual note-taking as a way of focusing attention, here are my notes (1.5

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NTEN

JUNE 7, 2013

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NTEN

JUNE 4, 2013

Change Management Data Infrastructure Leadership nonprofit technology leadership nptech Organizational Culture Strategy tla Communications IT Staff' "We were fairly proactive in the content of our messaging but less so in the technologies to deliver them," said Sandeen.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Like all technology projects, there are considerations around strategy, tactics, technology – and people. We will share the best of our best practices for change management. At the end of this webinar you will have solid strategies for moving forward in your transition to the cloud.

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NTEN

MARCH 31, 2015

What's your organization's tech strategy type, and what does that mean for your organization? Change Management Leadership Organizational Culture' Kelly Trusty, Ph.D. Assistant Professor. Western Michigan University School of Public Affairs and Administration. Prospector! Could this be a new set of superheroes?

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NTEN

MARCH 12, 2013

What is the risk of not adapting to a changing technology culture? NTEN's publication, designed especially for busy nonprofit executive directors, departmental directors, boards, and other leadership staff, is free and hot off the press. How can we be sure that the rewards outweigh the risks?

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NTEN

JANUARY 14, 2013

[Editor's note: The following is from the December 2012 issue of NTEN:Change , NTEN's quarterly journal for nonprofit leaders. The Center staff includes just five staff members (four full-time) plus one very part-time social media manager at five hours a week. By Debra Askanase, Community Organzier 2.0

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NTEN

DECEMBER 4, 2012

"Collaboration" is a word that comes up quite a bit in discussions about nonprofit strategies and nonprofit capacity. NTEN's publication, designed especially for busy nonprofit executive directors, departmental directors, boards, and other leadership staff, is free and hot off the press. Two Case-Studies: Sharing Back Office Functions.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

In their upcoming webinar, Powered by Pro Bono 101 , the Taproot Foundation will show you how to harness the power of pro bono services to help your organization do everything from build a website to update your brand strategy and develop strong strategic plans. Get the full description and sign up for the webinar here. Register now!

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

In their upcoming webinar, Powered by Pro Bono 101 , the Taproot Foundation will show you how to harness the power of pro bono services to help your organization do everything from build a website to update your brand strategy and develop strong strategic plans. Get the full description and sign up for the webinar here. Register now!

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NTEN

JULY 3, 2012

From NTEN's perspective, organizations would likely want to be somewhere between the 25th and 75th percentile range in staffing levels, meaning that you're in a "normal range" compared to other organizations in your budget size category. incidentally, the mode was also 1.0 -- the most frequently reported number).

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NTEN

JUNE 11, 2010

Together, the NTEN community is going to make those proverbial thousand flowers bloom. Instead, we're going to spend our time in program planning meetings and strategy talks, figuring out how to leverage technology to make the work our organizations are doing become that much more effective. We'll always need servers and email.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

The infographic below (you'll want to view the whole thing) connects the dots between some specific actions – like having a technology plan, evaluating the ROI of technology projects, and investing in training for staff – and overall organizational effectiveness when it come to managing technology for your mission.

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NTEN

MARCH 1, 2012

Has it been a year already since we launched NTEN's quarterly digital journal for nonprofit leaders? NTEN's publication (which was recently honored with a Publishing Trendsetter Award ) is free and hot off the press. Indeed it has, and the latest issue could be our best ever.

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AUGUST 22, 2013

The Gmail tabs panic reminded me that while I’m a huge fan of change – most folks struggle with change. I guess if everyone embraced change as I do then we wouldn’t be hosting events on change management with NTEN in San Francisco , Atlanta and Austin (yes… that was a plug for our fabulous, can’t miss events.

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JUNE 7, 2012

As well as content from the experts at Creative Commons , the NTEN community, a podcast from the CTK Foundation , and. If you’re still unsure of what the term encompasses and why it’s relevant to nonprofit work, see our “What’s Hot: Content Curation” article in the new issue for a quick introduction.

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NTEN

JULY 13, 2012

5) tech staff some positive things to consider: even though you don't have as many tech staff as larger organizations, your tech staff are less burdened and, by extension, should be able to better serve your non-tech staff and, perhaps more importantly, contribute more to organizational strategy and programmatic work.

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NTEN

AUGUST 13, 2012

." – from a Leading Respondent We made significant changes to this topic in our recent iteration of this research, bringing the definition of “Technology Adoption” more in line with NTEN’s mission and using the categories of technology strategy on page 13 of our book, Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission.

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NTEN

JANUARY 30, 2013

An important component listed above is the feedback loop in any measurement process -- we need to create a culture that is open to failure for the sake of identifying where we can do better. There also needs to be accountability, which I believe is a role the nonprofit community in partnership with the grant-makers need to play.

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AUGUST 15, 2012

[Editor's note: The following is an excerpt from a feature article in the June 2012 issue of NTEN:Change , NTEN's quarterly journal for nonprofit leaders. Read the rest of article, and the complete issue on "Content Curation" when you subscribe to the journal for free! ]. By Beth Kanter, Beth's Blog.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Last year, 1,288 nonprofits participated, and the report's author, Kivi Leroux Miller, provided NTEN:Change readers with some valuable tips and strategies based on the findings. The NonprofitMarketingGuide.com is conducting its third annual survey of what nonprofit communicators predict for the coming year: > Take the survey here.

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NTEN

JUNE 27, 2012

Content curation forms the base of your content strategy pyramid. Your content strategy is essential to the success of an integrated social media strategy. Not only are they learning on the job, but getting work done, too. It’s about curation, creativity, and coordination across channels.

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OCTOBER 14, 2013

In this issue of NTEN: Change, we take a holistic approach to looking at some of these internal processes, including trust building to demonstrate impact, making decisions with data, and prioritizing activities through evaluation. So get started!

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