NTEN

JULY 22, 2010

Photo: johncabrerea@att.net I've been crafting the "official" NTEN Social Media Strategy. It has its own Google Doc.) Even though it turns out that NTEN's strategy isn't much different from our instincts, it's still important for us to have clear objectives and tactics for reaching our objectives.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2007

At first blush, although Kintera officially got out the door first, announcing Connect weeks ago, and delivering the APIs and docs on Friday, their play is a good start, but Convio, announcing Open tomorrow, appears to be ahead in terms of providing real openness. Here’s a quick overview of both initiatives. Appreciating you!

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NTEN

APRIL 22, 2010

This fantastic doc from MIT will walk you through your office to help you pinpoint places where you can do more to help Mother Earth. We just finished spring cleaning the NTEN offices and took a laptop, four boxes of toner, some thumb drives, a broken keyboard, and some old power supplies to Free Geek last night. Print green.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 18, 2007

I looked over Allan Benamer’s post on the Convio and Kintera initiatives, I looked harder at the Convio Open and Kintera Connect docs, and I also had a chat with some Kintera folk. I have a few comments. Allan is right – the Kintera API is more comprehensive, and provides for more flexibility than the Convio API.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 19, 2008

And yeah after reading the docs, I agree, it’s bad. Speaking of the responses of the old guard, eTapestry, which was bought by Blackbaud last year, is opening up it’s API this week. Allan, in his inimitable way, points out how bad the API is. So is it good news, when companies open APIs that don’t make it easy to really use?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

I think this model may become more prevalent, as organizations are not going to comfortable letting vendors store their data, but will want to take advantage of RIAs like Gliffy or Google Docs. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Tech Soup

JULY 29, 2009

The recent theft of confidential documents from Twitter's Google Docs account points out the dangers of insecure passwords. NTEN's blog discusses the details of the break-in and lessons we should learn from it. A 2007 NTEN post provided suggestions and resources for creating strong passwords and establishing a password policy.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Last week, we asked our Facebook community what tech goodies they hoped to receive this holiday season. LogMeIn allows me to log into my computer back at the office and control it, opening apps, printing docs, running searches in our database. The most popular answer? The iPad of course! Keynote/Pages/Numbers.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Last week, we asked our Facebook community what tech goodies they hoped to receive this holiday season. LogMeIn allows me to log into my computer back at the office and control it -- opening apps, printing docs, running searches in our database, haunting office-mates. The most popular answer? The iPad of course! Keynote/Pages/Numbers.

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NTEN

MAY 30, 2013

tech club logo. Enter NTEN''s 501 Tech Clubs. Tech Clubs are driven by local leaders who step up to organize and plan group events with the support of NTEN. They created a Google doc with information regarding event promotion, logisitcs, and planning as a resource for speakers. PDX organizers.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2007

And if you have a Gmail account, it’s the same username/password that you’d be using for Analytics, Google Docs, Adsense, etc. Given the widespread problem with phishing schemes, it’s disturbing that web apps are training users that it’s OK to give a new site your email username/password.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

NTEN's monthly roundup of tech resources called " Things We Like " (and I'll add to "fondle.") Via NTEN blog Google moves one step closer to making desktop applications obsolete with the release of the Google Chart API. ") Okay, now we're onto fondling APIs, google's to be exact.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

I’m here at NTEN’s 09NTC and am going to live blog Beth Kanter’s session on mapping your social media strategy to metrics. Qui - for clients that are larger, we set up media citation reports (like a word doc with titles and links and relevant info about the mentions and how they should respond). Can’t wait!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

With video conferencing, broadband, and Second Life, well, we can all safely stay ensconced in our own virtual-reality-sensory-deprivation-tanks and just digitally dance the salsa at the next NTEN gathering.??? What does it mean that one blog has three times as many users as another blog in the nonprofit tech space?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. <a Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Heidi’s post triggered an interesting conversation in the comments on capture tools and transparency mentioned in the guest post below, but more importantly Julia Smith from NTEN volunteered to write up this guest post about the conference. Report back from the first-ever Do Good Data Conference by Julia Smith.

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NTEN

MAY 13, 2011

Read the entire case study in NTEN's new quarterly journal for nonprofit leaders by subscribing to the journal for free! ] By Chris Bernard, Idealware When [NTEN Member] Andy Wolber worked for NPower Michigan—first as a consultant, then later as executive director—the organization had a geographically spread-out board of 10-15 members.

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NTEN

APRIL 18, 2014

In the last month, NTEN staff have rested and recuperated (Jessica even traveled to China!), The opening plenary was wonderful - a big surprise for a tech conference. I realized that NTEN focused on people, not just technology, and I felt very welcome. and debriefed a whole lot of the NTC. Want to re-live the magic?

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NTEN

JANUARY 29, 2010

A monthly roundup of our favorite nonprofit tech resources. is like Google Docs for elementary school students. Tags: Newsletter NPTech NTEN Things We Like. Read more posts on our blog. They're ba-aaack. Kika has given birth to 5 brand new Shiba Inu puppies, and you can watch them grow, live, online. " -- only it's helpful.

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NTEN

JANUARY 29, 2010

A monthly roundup of our favorite nonprofit tech resources. Primary Pad is like Google Docs for elementary school students. Tags: Newsletter NPTech NTEN Things We Like. Read more posts on our blog. They're ba-aaack. Kika has given birth to 5 brand new Shiba Inu puppies, and you can watch them grow, live, online.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

I kept this in the back of my head while dealing with tech issues from day-to-day and resolving the problems as they occurred. I also provided weekly tech hours in the office, giving the staff a chance to get individual help or training on tech issues/questions. HandsOn Bay Area has now been using Google Apps for over a year.

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Robert Weiner

JUNE 21, 2009

Today I’m posting Karen Nyhus ‘ advice, originally posted on NTEN’s nptechconsult forum (for members only) in response to a request for “resources and tips for our nonprofit technology community to help them start things off right in 2007.&# Get to know other techs. 2) Get a wiki. . be nice to your clients.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

They used Google docs to help share documents with the volunteers worldwide as they worked on the magazine. At the seminars, the fellows participate in an intensive tech treating session, and are provided with tech tools to enhance their projects, like weebly.com , which provides a free tool for building basic web-sites. . .

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

In Allen "Gunner" Gunn's opening plenary at NTEN's cloud computing event last week , he spoke passionately about the potential for cloud computing to transform organizational boundaries and barriers ( see the video of the session ; Gunner's keynote starts at 29:50).

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