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

DECEMBER 3, 2013

Many executives don’t approach management and leadership in accounting or evaluation matters, for example, with the same trepidation as they do technology. And yet the same skills that make any leader effective are appropriate to managing technology. But who is?

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NTEN

JUNE 5, 2013

Many executives don’t approach management and leadership in accounting or evaluation matters, for example, with the same trepidation as they do technology. And yet the same skills that make any leader effective are appropriate to managing technology. But who is?

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NTEN

JANUARY 28, 2013

Over the last few years, NTEN has been working with nonprofits to understand how to better wrangle all the data they’re creating and what’s available to them into improved results: more mission impact. In 2010, we organized an online workshop we affectionately titled “Taming the Data Monster.”

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NTEN

APRIL 22, 2013

Your nonprofit''s internet presence and communications channels must now be directed fully towards mobile. 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. We now return to your regularly scheduled blogcast. Everything must exist in the cloud.

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NTEN

MAY 20, 2013

Last month we released our seventh annual report on nonprofit investment and practices regarding technology. Because we know that the term "IT Staff" means something very specific to people, and the concept of who is "IT Staff" has not changed as rapidly over the last few years as the role of technology in an organization has.

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NTEN

AUGUST 4, 2011

Flickr: ePublicist A recent discussion thread on NTEN's main community email list really hit something home for me. NTEN member Sean Watson brought up his concern about the lack of staffing around, and interest in, "business processes" in most nonprofit organizations. Installing a new server, sure, they want assistance.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 15, 2011

Recently, I've been thinking about the launch of NTEN's newest resource: NTEN:Change, A Quarterly Journal for Nonprofit Leaders. With support from Google, we were able to launch this new resource and provide it for free to the nonprofit community: [link] But What’s New About This Publication?

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NTEN

JUNE 7, 2013

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NTEN

JUNE 6, 2013

Julia, a staff member at a nonprofit, offers her story about project management and personal growth. Having never managed a project, I was thrilled when the Executive Director asked if I wanted to be the project manager for the website initiative. Project management seemed easy and straightforward. LAD Enterprizes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

NTEN and Jossey-Bass/Wiley is hosting the " Online NTC ," a 2-day online conference based on the book, Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission. The online conference is for the "Tech Responsible" individual within any nonprofit. It is a learning event to help you better understand how to manage technology.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Teaser: These are heady times for those of us that work in nonprofit technology. From virtualization and cloud computing to geolocation services to Twitter and Facebook, the changes are exciting and powerful. That's why we spent 2010 developing a strategic plan : we're ready to take the best of NTEN and make it better.

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NTEN

APRIL 8, 2013

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

JUNE 13, 2013

Senior Online Communications Manager. NTC session panelists share lessons learned during our session, which was supposed to focus on our organizations’ and others’ nonprofit technology failures. VolunteerMatch. 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

JUNE 12, 2013

For those of us who have responsibilities in online fundraising / marketing / technology, often our work doesn’t fit within the traditional department structure of most nonprofit organizations. Effective leadership can come from anywhere in an organization.

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NTEN

JANUARY 24, 2012

On January 17th, the nonprofit, technology, and financial communities learned that Blackbaud was beginning the steps to acquire Convio , whose board had approved the purchase. Join NTEN's Executive Director, Holly Ross, Wednesday, January 25th, for a Community Call: " Your Perspectives on the Blackbaud and Convio Acquisition Announcement." >

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NTEN

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Julia, a staff member at a nonprofit, offers her story about project management and personal growth. Having never managed a project, I was thrilled when the Executive Director asked if I wanted to be the project manager for the website initiative. Project management seemed easy and straightforward. LAD Enterprizes.

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NTEN

JUNE 4, 2013

Change Management Data Infrastructure Leadership nonprofit technology leadership nptech Organizational Culture Strategy tla Communications IT Staff' Prior to the Academy, DWD was "keeping the lights on" as far as technology adoption and reactive in its approach. "We

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NTEN

MAY 8, 2013

It does not matter if you are small or big or if you are moving to the cloud to manage your donors, volunteers, dogs, cats, or trees: there are some things that you should keep in mind. Here are my top ten (and a bonus one at the end). Here are my top ten (and a bonus one at the end).

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

We told attendees they could have 5 minutes and 20 slides in front of the captive nonprofit technology audience. NTEN's newest publication, NTEN:Change , is designed for non-technical leaders of small to mid-sized nonprofits, features a regular section called "DIY Nonprofit Technology".

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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. The death of management by walking around. Probably like your own home.

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NTEN

MAY 10, 2013

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NTEN

MAY 9, 2013

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NTEN

JUNE 5, 2012

NTEN's annual research on nonprofit technology spending and practices sheds light on these questions, and many more. > Since 2006, NTEN has produced the annual Nonprofit Technology (formerly "IT") Staffing and Investments survey and report for the nonprofit sector. > Download the Report for Free.

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NTEN

APRIL 8, 2013

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NTEN

JULY 14, 2010

You, dear NTEN community, know the importance of technology in meeting your missions. We're glad you get it, because we need you to help us meet OUR mission of ensuring that every nonprofit can use technology to make the change they want to see. Manage the organizational change that technology can produce.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

In April 2012 NTEN worked with Idealware to conduct a survey of nonprofits about their relationships with data, and what we found was a large dichotomy—either they were doing a lot with their metrics or not much at all. Download the complete report, "The State of the Nonprofit Data.".

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NTEN

OCTOBER 1, 2010

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NTEN

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Change Management Cloud Infrastructure Leadership nonprofit technology nptech organizational culture Organizational Culture Staffing transitioning to the cloud IT Staff' Let me share with you what I now refer to as the good, the bad, and the ugly.

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NTEN

AUGUST 10, 2012

Is nonprofit technology moving out of the data closet and into the Cloud? Our interviews with diverse nonprofits revealed a number of great examples from local and international organizations of all sizes and from across a wide range of technology expertise. Into the Cloud: Great Books Foundation. Let us know in the comments below!

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NTEN

JULY 3, 2012

[This is part one of a series taking a closer look at the key benchmarks from our 6th Annual Nonprofit Technology Staffing & Investments Survey Report , conducted with The NonProfit Times. In our latest Nonprofit Technology Staffing & Investments Survey, we asked respondents about their technology staffing levels.

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NTEN

JANUARY 5, 2012

NTEN member and nonprofit communications expert Kivi Leroux Miller just released the 2012 Nonprofit Communications Trends Report , based on a survey of over 1200 participants at the end of 2011. but, on the other hand, nonprofit communications professionals have a lot of obstacles in the way of those plans.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

[Editor's note: Ontario 211 and NTEN asked Ontario nonprofits about how they were using technology – and how they’d like to be using technology – for their work. Where do you think your organization is potentially lagging behind other nonprofits when it comes to using technology effectively?

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NTEN

AUGUST 19, 2010

I've met a lot of nonprofit IT directors during the nearly 8(!) years I've been at NTEN. As technology has moved around the nonprofit, have you dug deeper moats, or are you building bridges? Tags: Change Management do something george weiner NPTech NTEN IT Staff. To me, that makes Ed a hero. .

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NTEN

APRIL 5, 2013

When organizations embrace this holistic culture, the nonprofit begins to come alive online. Jamie Millard , client relationship manager for Fast Horse , an innovative, integrated agency offering traditional and non-traditional marketing services, specializes in understanding audiences and digital media strategies. for " Ctrl.

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NTEN

AUGUST 18, 2009

Flicker photo: jaredchapman In every corner of the NTC, frequently in the NTEN Affinity Groups, and at least two times a week in my in-box, you'll come across a conversation that goes a little like this: "They hired me to help them create a new data/web/email/IT strategy, but now they don't actually want to DO any of the things I recommend.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Dahna Goldstein Bev Magda I used to do technology consulting with nonprofits, and I found that the work was about 10% technology, 90% psychology. Of course, knowing that isn't enough: Anyone who's engaged in implementing technology projects at nonprofits needs a whole slew of tools to help navigate the change management waters.

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