Robert Weiner

OCTOBER 17, 2009

Our friends at NTEN have launched a survey to examine nonprofits' data ecosystems. Your first question is probably "what is a data ecosystem?" NTEN describes it as follows: The nonprofit ecosystem is a way of thinking about how data is shared by and flows across the different departments and activities in your organization.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2010

flickr photo: woodleywonderworks November is member appreciation month, and we set today aside specifically to thank our amazing NTEN members, and to help them celebrate each other. If you're on Twitter, just thank your favorite NTEN member(s) and include #ntenthanks in your update. NTEN is so much more than a community now.

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JUNE 9, 2023

Cybersecurity threats include disruption to its operations, data breaches, financial loss, and damage to its reputation. Technical Use SSL/TLS encryption to encrypt data transmitted between your website and your users’ browsers. This prevents attackers from viewing or tampering with data exchanged between two nodes.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 13, 2012

Over the last few months NTEN has been surveying U.S. To quote Annaliese Hoeling, NTEN’s publications director: A couple of the biggest take-aways for us were that 91 percent of nonprofits taking our survey reported using at least one cloud software solution?. NTEN surveyed 780 nonprofits across nine U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

Flickr Photo by Happysmurfday Over the past couple of years, we've released reports on Donor Management Software , Content Management Systems , and CRMs. The nonprofit ecosystem is a way of thinking about how data is shared by and flows across the different departments and activities in your organization. Managing Clients/Program Data.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 7, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Joining the NTEN Board August 7, 2007 Katrin, the Executive Director of NTEN, announced today that I’m joining the Board. (So Good move on NTEN’s part! Congrats to everybody!

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JANUARY 3, 2012

Unique about that report was that we also asked survey participants to grade their data ecosystems , which is what we call that network of tools organizations use to carry out their work. We re-visted this topic this summer for the 2011 Nonprofit Data Ecosystems survey, and are happy to release the report today (free for NTEN members). >

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

So first, what is data portability? Basically, it means that the data that you put into social networking sites, like profiles, social graph (those who you are connected to,) media, etc. In addition, they are portable – you can move your data from place to place. These include Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and many others.

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DECEMBER 14, 2021

Please join NTEN in welcoming our new Lead Organizers, Dave Tinker (Pittsburgh, PA) and James Porter (Denver, CO) for Tech Clubs and Dar Veverka (Baltimore, MD), and Jonea Agwa (Burlington, Ontario, Canada) for online groups. What do you appreciate/like the most about NTEN and the NTEN Community? Jonea Agwa.

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JULY 16, 2010

But how can you collect the data you need to tell your organization's stories -- and then make them compelling enough to cut through the noise? That's a question we'll help you answer at our upcoming workshop, " Taming the Data Monster " You can register for this online workshop right here.

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AUGUST 12, 2013

Seems we've entered a golden era of interactive mapping, with no shortage of exciting ways to display geographically-specific data. In the last few years, we've seen exponential growth in interactive mapping software that presents data from all sorts of angles.

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MAY 12, 2011

By Kurt Voelker, CTO, Forum One Data is the new black. Data is so much more than a stack of numbers or a server filled with client outputs. One effective way to transform your data from an afterthought into a powerful communications product is through visualizations that help tell your story. And for good reason.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

Open Data November 8, 2007 As the hype (which, I agree I have contributed to ) around OpenSocial dies down, the reality behind OpenSocial becomes clear. Tim O’Reilly has a bang-on post about the fact that OpenSocial does not mean that users can have data portability. O’Reilly doesn’t really have an answer for that one.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 21, 2013

Nonproft Technology Network :: @ NTEN. Research, Data, Statistics. Software grants, Nonprofit Technology, Training. Nonprofit Technology, News, Training. Nonprofit Times :: @ NonProfitTimes. News, Jobs, Management. thenonprofittimes.com. Osocio :: @ Osocio. Advertising, Cause Marketing, Activism. osocio.org. pewinternet.org.

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NTEN

JANUARY 3, 2012

Unique about that report was that we also asked survey participants to grade their data ecosystems , which is what we call that network of tools organizations use to carry out their work. We re-visted this topic this summer for the 2011 Nonprofit Data Ecosystems survey, and are happy to release the report today (free for NTEN members). >

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APRIL 30, 2010

(Note: This is a weekly round-up of NTEN members doing and sharing their nptech awesome. Tag your own news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome online, or contact Annaliese with your updates.) . Rock on open data and mapping! Tags: community buzz NPTech nten members.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Gregory Heller, CivicActions Not long ago, open source software was seen by most as the choice of fringe geeks with political motivations. CiviCRM got great scores in NTEN's Data Ecosystem Report. Of course, mainstream as it is, working with open source software is different than working with proprietary software.

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AUGUST 16, 2010

Flickr Photo: Caro Wallis (Note: This is a weekly round-up of NTEN members doing and sharing their nptech awesome. Tag your own news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome online, or contact Annaliese with your updates.). Tags: community buzz NPTech nten members. Members are in bold.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 25, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What software freedom means to me June 25, 2008 I got some interesting comments on the last post about Linux desktops. The freedom to study how the program works, and adapt it to your needs (freedom 1).

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NTEN

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Over the past 10 years, the mashup of the web and our personally identifiable data (PID) has grown up. Data silos also create problems. Whether it’s data or dances, silos keep people separated at the party. An organization that owns its data and manages it correctly owns its distribution channels.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

How do you go about finding out whether it’s the right software, and whether the project has a healthy community, since you don’t want to adopt a project that doesn’t? Send queries to nonprofit tech lists for experiences and information, like nosi-discussion , nten-discuss , riders-tech , and others. Be Helpful.

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Non Profit Quarterly

APRIL 20, 2023

Meta—the parent company of Facebook and Instagram—has been under fire in the past few years over its lax policies on news content, data privacy, and misinformation. In 2020, tech nonprofit NTEN announced that they were pulling their advertising from Facebook due to its data-collection and content-moderation policies.

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 27, 2012

On the recent NTEN community call someone asked the panel to name 5 vendors (other than Blackbaud and Convio) to whom we’d send a CRM system RFP for a $100 million nonprofit. Supports streamlined, high-volume data entry tools. Provide data integrity tools to keep the data clean. Software alone seldom gets the job done.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Our friends at NTEN have launched a survey to examine nonprofits' data ecosystems. Your first question is probably "what is a data ecosystem?" NTEN describes it as follows: The nonprofit ecosystem is a way of thinking about how data is shared by and flows across the different departments and activities in your organization.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Quantitative and qualitative data are often positioned as opposing or complementary means of documenting impact. Data reports and personal snapshots are often generated separately, then placed side-by-side with the hope that the juxtaposition of hard metrics with an emotional picture and blurb will resonate with a wide range of people.

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NTEN

APRIL 15, 2010

But what we really need is data. It seems like a simple thing: get out in the community, collect the data, do the math. But data collection can be painfully slow, and in some cases, lack of speed can mean the difference between life and death. Sure, we need will, we need vision, we need money. We need a lot of things.

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JULY 29, 2021

You can author, edit, and store content and data within the system , but the departure from a traditional CMS is in the templating. This is accomplished through an Application Programming Interface (API), which allows content within the system to be accessible as data. These frameworks rely on APIs for grabbing data.

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AUGUST 10, 2023

Cost: 2024 ticket prices have not yet been released, but NTEN members receive discounted ticket prices for NTC. In 2023, early ticket prices for NTEN members ranged from $350 for virtual tickets to $649 for in-person, while non-members could purchase in-person tickets for $949 and virtual tickets for $650. from May 1 through May 3.

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DECEMBER 1, 2014

Here are the latest news, tips, and resources from NTEN Members. Case Foundation describes their collaborative initiative to track data on #GivingTuesday campaign efforts, tracking impact beyond the amount of donations made. NTEN Members can attend for free with the promo code: NTEN2014. High fives are in order!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants: Nonprofit Data Management March 12, 2007 As you know, nonprofit data management has been a really important issue for me for a long time. at 10:14 pm Good carnival!

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MARCH 12, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants: Nonprofit Data Management March 12, 2007 As you know, nonprofit data management has been a really important issue for me for a long time. at 10:14 pm Good carnival!

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NTEN

JUNE 17, 2014

The list is long— you can’t get the donor information you need, your program team can’t effectively manage volunteers, and your operations staff are spending way too much time entering and moving data instead of engaging key constituents.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2014

The wide variety of choices out there can be daunting, with so many questions to ask: What''s the best management software platform? Here at NTEN, we receive a lot of questions about the the different uses of technology for fundraising. Which web communication channels are the most effective? Diversification is key.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

Each of the past couple of years our friends over at NTEN have released reports on Donor Management Software , Content Management Systems , and CRMs. This year they decided to take a look at how all those systems work together in what they are calling their first Data Ecosystem Survey. To do that, they need your help!

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AUGUST 6, 2012

Flickr: JenWaller If you think it's too hot outside to be crunching numbers or analyzing information, pour yourself a fresh glass of lemonade because this week's Member Round Up revolves around data – from a free tool for visualizing data to a hot-off-the press report about the state of hiring in the nonprofit sector.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2008

Choosing Donor Mangaement Software (DMS) can be frustrating and overwhelming. This is why NTEN is proud to present the results of our first Donor Management Software Satisfaction Survey. The report is available free to NTEN Members, $50 for non-members. NTEN Members also receive access to the full data set for the report.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 13, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Back Channels, Workflow, Data, Twitter, and me March 13, 2007 I read Beth’s recent blog entry on Twitter , and of course, the neo-luddite in me said “waste of time!&# And then there is data.

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