Robert Weiner

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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JUNE 29, 2009

From the interwebs this week, I've heard about these NTEN members doing their nptechie-thing: Amy Sample Ward reports on the new opportunity on YouTube to connect nonprofits with video volunteers, with the help of allforgood.org. The only tech he took with him was his flip camera to document. solutions for nonprofit orgs.

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NTEN

JUNE 9, 2009

We're going to do our best to document the process over the next few months. Tags: NPTech NTEN nten.org site redesign web design web site. Flickr Photo: zaklee Our web site is over two years old, and the botox just isn't hiding the. cracks anymore. Fortunately, the good folks at Beaconfire are helping us out with a.

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NTEN

AUGUST 14, 2009

NTENny winner and general NTEN rock star Peter Campbell has a great run-down of the various nonprofit technology related extra-curricular work he's doing -- and by work, I mean the resources he's building and sharing with other nptechies. Tags: community buzz NPTech nptimes nten members twitter. You can see the latest here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2006

This morning I got an email from my colleagues at NTEN telling me it was an awesome example of tagging. This post takes a quick look at the the Voters project as a tagging project to glean some learnings. The intent of the project is "By tagging content related to Minnesota's election, more voter s will be heard."

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 2, 2010

Start Sharing Today : We’ve set up a google document as a shared space for anyone interested in the topic, whether they are in the session with us or not, to post links, resources, examples and more. Tags: community presentation 10ntc community building nten online communities.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

5 Ways to Collaborate on Documents Online in Real Time - London Net Tuesday's upcoming event on 3 March focuses on online collaboration tools and strategies. Here's a great review of some of the tools available for shared documents. Tags: roundup bookmarks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

A social graph if the NpTech tag based on a google search NpTech Conversations Gavin's digital diner has written an article about the options that technology gives us for opting out of face-to-face gatherings. " Holly Ross from NTEN has the final word with a brilliant post sharing all the metrics they track and putting them into context.

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Robert Weiner

JULY 25, 2010

You said you've read the Idealware/NTEN Consumer's Guide, so you know that (system x) got a strong rating there. Last, you need to get a contract that shows you all of the costs, including setting up the system, converting your data, (ideally) documenting your data entry processes, and training your staff. event_KEY=29015.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

tags: nonprofits roi ). Last year at this time, I was writing the chapter on ROI in the soon to be published book from NTEN called " Managing Your Mission." ROI analysis requires documenting, collecting data, and internal discussion and cooperation. Document on the fly. View more presentations from kanter. Investment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

Marshall Kirkpatrick's Comparing 5 Ways To Tag Videos hit dig popular. Webinars about personal fundraising (with Kevin Bacon) and Open Source Software (Michelle Murrain) over at NTEN next week. Katrin Verclas at NTEN is in love with Google Analytics V2 and so is Laurie Quinn. without leaving the virtual world!

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NTEN

MAY 25, 2010

Beth Kanter and Allison Fine have documented some of the small organizations who used social media exceedingly well during the Case Foundation's America's Giving Challenge. Here at NTEN, we're in an interesting position. Tags: Community E-mail NPTech NTEN Social Media Web Sites Communications. survey software.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

These are my notes for webinar about Nonprofits and Slideshare , a social site where community members share presentations, documents and pdfs. NTEN set up an event area on Slideshare for the NTC 2010. Some events have set up branded channels, like the Bar Camp Channel. (5) 1) Networked Professional Development and Learning.

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NTEN

JULY 22, 2010

Photo: johncabrerea@att.net I've been crafting the "official" NTEN Social Media Strategy. 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. What makes it official? It has its own Google Doc.)

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

From the forthcoming NTEN book: Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission. Direction as to how to develop of Technology Plan – what goes in it, how do you get it in there, how do you make it a document that others can understand and engage with. Tags: liveblogging 09ntc it planning strategy. Takeaways: 1.

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NTEN

MAY 6, 2010

In case you haven't noticed, we love jokes here at NTEN world headquarters: witty remarks, amusing cat videos , Star Wars references. Tags: facebook humor immigration NPTech NTEN Social Media Web Sites Communications. Lately, we've been reading the jokes on our Laffy Taffy as fast as we can unwrap them, which is pretty fast.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Most of us now host all of our applications and our data and our email systems documents/spreadsheets, etc. The basic protocols and roles of successful camps were documented in real time and shared in the cloud. Cloud computing offers us all the same freedom for our information infrastructure. on our own servers or desktops.

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NTEN

AUGUST 23, 2010

Calibre : Calibre is an e-book management tool that also converts documents into a number of e-book formats. Last but not least, it was also mentioned that your organization could create something in InDesign and convert that document into an interactive PDF. You can then foward the link or embed the material.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Most of us now host all of our applications and our data and our email systems documents/spreadsheets, etc. The basic protocols and roles of successful camps were documented in real time and shared in the cloud. Cloud computing offers us all the same freedom for our information infrastructure. on our own servers or desktops.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Marnie Webb introduced the nptech tag to help aggregate nonprofit technology content. Peter Campbell leveraged RSS to pull the tagged items into nptech. The tag points to individual resources, but is that knowledge? tagging capabilities to keep things organized. tagging capabilities to keep things organized.

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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

APRIL 28, 2010

Also make sure you capture the formats in which the information is stored, including paper documents. Lastly, make certain those locations employ some access control measure such as a locked door or cabinet for mobile media and paper documents, or logical access controls such as network folder or file permissions.

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

Tags: Leadership Newsletter NPTech NTEN Web Sites. An organization’s website might be the first experience a potential client or funder has with its agency. That experience should be positive and pleasant, inspiring trust rather than generating frustration.

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Robert Weiner

APRIL 28, 2009

Managing client expecations — workflow, documentation, contact len. Sharing knowledge was very beneficial — NTEN and Tech Underground were founded so people could have a collection of trusted consultants to assist, or cover vacations, or handle additional expertise. Tags: Consulting NTEN.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

So, I thought I'd take the time to document my recommended processes here! Create a chart – either on a whiteboard, a flipchart, or even a document on your computer. Tags: amy sample ward NPTech NTEN Program. A note about DIY.

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NTEN

APRIL 28, 2010

We connect with members using e-mail and social networking, carry out research on search engines and Web sites, and use online services to purchase supplies and produce and store documents. Documents and information is increasingly stored online. Tags: Advocacy Leadership Newsletter NPTech NTEN privacy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

LolNptech commentary about a recent NTEN Discuss List thread. Google qualified nonprofit organizations can use GoogleCheckout to accept charitable donations without any fees as first reported by the NTEN blog. hidalgo is on "an open-source journey around the world documenting free culture, social innovators, and global change."

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 14, 2008

The documentation is a bit lacking, and it’s clear that it’s a very new project. 1 trackback } Recent Links Tagged With "portability" - JabberTags 01.03.09 All really great stuff. I imagine, too, because it’s based on an open source platform, developers will begin to code in data portability (or have they already?)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2009

Photo by Joel Zimmer The annual Day of Service at the NTEN NTC Conference has been a tradition since 2000. Also, I set up a DOS wiki and gathered up what I could find in terms of documentation - if you have photos, videos, or other a blog post, please add. . Tags: 09ntc. Cheryl Hanback had a brilliant idea. Let me explain.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2007

It's great that NTEN let's anyone who is passionate about a topic set up an affinity group. is a web-based digital photo sharing application that uses tags to facilitate finding people and photos. Overview article from December NTEN newsletter. Source for Presentations, Documentation Methods. It isn??????t Basic Overview.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 8, 2010

We make sure that we spend part of our time each day on Twitter, or catching up on our RSS feeds, to check out the conversation and learn from the people and organizations that we're following (including lots of NTEN folks). Tags: how-to NPTech NTEN Social Media Communications. Make it known.

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NTEN

JANUARY 15, 2009

While we will be projecting coverage on the wall here at the NTEN office, those of you actually attending can help the rest of us share in the inaugural experience, social media-style. . If enough people tag their tweets with "#inaug09" or "#dctrip09", you should be able to find out which checkpoint has the shortest wait.

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NTEN

AUGUST 10, 2009

For instance, in legal aid orgs, programs are collaborating with courts and libraries to build self help centers using document assembly software. Categorize/tagging sessions or content for organization size or type. Tags: 10NTC community NPTech NTEN. Other recommendations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2010

On Thursday, April 9th at 8:00 am, we kicked off the tenth Annual Day of Service at NTEN's NTC which was a resounding success! Michaela Hackner , a talented photographer, was on hand to document the Day of Service on Flickr. Tags: 10ntc. And, I saw a few thank you tweets from local organizations in Atlanta too!

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Tech Soup

MARCH 27, 2009

This post and the wiki feature excerpts, bonus materials, and notes from the book which was compiled by NTEN of the same name. In addition, as organizations adopt more Web-deployed technologies like CRM or document sharing, this may seem like a viable option. Kevin Lo and Willow Cook from TechSoup contributed a chapter.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Based on my informal assessment of attitudes and interest in the NTEN community about open source software, I think there's a significant and growing number of folks and organizations who are either interested in, already using, or even evangelizing open source solutions. Tags: dave greenberg NPTech NTEN Open Source IT Staff.

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NTEN

MARCH 30, 2011

Dropbox also tracks versions of documents across the team. Because it integrates tightly with your own desktop files, updates to documents are just there, almost immediately, whenever you need them. Lastpass categorizes and tags your passwords. Use it only once, and it makes you want to create documentation.

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