Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 20, 2009

He and I have had terrific idea swaps and brainstorms and I can only imagine the conversations he will spark in person at NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology Conference. He received a NTEN scholarship to cover his registration cost but that’s it—he still needs to get there. When is the NTEN Conference? So here I am.

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JANUARY 15, 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.) . " to the NTEN community for showing how people-to-people fundraising online works.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Every work day in November leading up to Thanksgiving Day, I'll give away an NTEN or NPTech prize to one of our fabulous NTEN members -- randomly selected, of course! Right now, however, I'd love to give a book to an NTEN Member: Zilch, by Nancy Lublin. As for your fellow NTEN members -- no worries! Wednesday, Nov 3.

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OCTOBER 8, 2010

Flickr: Chad_Norman (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.) . NTEN's LinkedIn group for members. Members are in bold.

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JANUARY 22, 2010

Flickr: Cambodia4Kids (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.

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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.) . Maine: May 11th, Portland: Finding the Right Fundraising Mix. Members are in bold.

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OCTOBER 5, 2010

Flickr: CGC When it comes to the Nonprofit Technology Conference and NTEN membership, our organizational calendars always seem to move so much faster than the calendar on my wall. The NTEN Webinar Multi-Pass provides you (and your staff if you're an organizational member of NTEN) with three free NTEN webinars.

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DECEMBER 4, 2009

(Note: This is a weekly round-up of NTEN members doing and sharing their nptech awesome. Tag your news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome, or contact Annaliese with your updates.) . Tags: NPTech nten members. Members are in bold. Thanks for including the NTC , Allyson!).

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

But this fall, NTEN staff is traveling all over the country to various NPTech events. " Unfortunately, no one from NTEN will be in-person at the event, but Holly will be Skype -ing in for a session. One of those session is a panel featuring NTEN's Annaliese. Here's a list of where we'll be and where we want to be.

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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.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

NTEN Members are our heroes (Flickr: levork) (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.) Members are in bold.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2010

As a reminder, November is Member Appreciation Month here at NTEN, which means our program calendar is loaded with great free webinars for our members, and I'm giving away prizes to one NTEN member every workday! Today's prize is an NTEN webinar pass. Also, don't forget: today is NTEN Give Thanks (#ntenthanks) Day !

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MAY 7, 2010

(Note: This is a weekly round-up of NTEN members doing and sharingtheir nptech awesome. Tag your own news with "ntenmember" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome online, or contact Annaliesewith your updates.) Tags: community buzz NPTech nten members. Members are in bold.

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MAY 14, 2010

Flickr: levork) (Note: This is a weekly round-up of NTEN members doing and sharingtheir nptech awesome. Tag your own news with "ntenmember" or "nptech" to help us find your awesomeonline, or contact Annaliesewith your updates.) Tags: community buzz nten members. What's Your Nonprofit's Superpower?

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MAY 24, 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.) Look, we all know that social media isn't "the answer"for nonprofit fundraising.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2010

I convinced the entire NTEN staff to join me in a remake of the Muppets Bohemian Rhapsody ! Tags: 10NTC NPTech NTEN Social Media Fundraising. We're going to raise another $10,000 (matched dollar for dollar by Convio) for the NTC scholarship campaign this year -- and send another 57 people down to Hot-lanta.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2010

(Note: This is a weekly round-up of NTEN members doing and sharing. Tag your own news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome online, or contact Annaliese with your updates.). Stars in Fundraising Success Magazine. NTEN member American Red Cross. their nptech awesome.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

The Social Media for Social Good collection from NTEN and NetSquared calls for your case studies in leveraging social media tools in your program work. Especially when it comes to fundraising. But at NTEN and NetSquared, we know that social media is good for a lot more than raising money. Social Media for Social Good.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

I have a guest post up on the NTEN blog discussing some of the ways social media was put into action as soon as the earthquakes struck in Haiti: When disaster strikes, we want information as soon as possible and we want to help just as quickly. How can we do that?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2009

For the past eight years, I've attended NTC , NTEN's premiere conference for nonprofit techies.* That shows the community considers NTEN of great value. Tags: 09ntc. During the holidays, I was talking to Holly Ross on Twitter wondering if the bad economy would be a damper on conference attendance.

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JUNE 3, 2009

If you've been following the fundraising and marketing trends over the last few years, you're probably hip to idea that the best strategies for maximizing engagement and fundraising for your organization involve integrating online and offline communications and campaign efforts. Oh yeah: NTEN's own Holly Ross is going to be there!

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MARCH 2, 2009

Flickr Credit: Ollyhart Philip King, President and CEO of Artez Interactive , has a great podcast series called Digital Fundraising. His most recent episode is a conversation with NTEN's own Holly Ross. Tags: artez NPTech nonprofit technology beth kanter online fundraising NTEN.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

There is often a lot of speculation and guessing about what’s happening to fundraising in the nonprofit sector. Another aspect of the Index data that is interesting is the growing percentage of total fundraising that comes from online channels. of their overall fundraising revenue. Steve MacLaughlin, Blackbaud.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

The last three months of the year represent a critical time for the fundraising efforts of nonprofit organizations. Charities that have traditionally focused on offline fundraising have also learned in recent years the importance of online giving. Some nonprofits still struggle with developing a successful online fundraising program.

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MARCH 17, 2010

The 2nd Annual International Fundraising eConference is coming up May 11-13, and simply because you're reading this blog, you qualify for 25% off. Fundraising: How We Combine Email, Social _Media, and Phones to Reach. Trends in Online Fundraising: What We Can Learn From the Data . > Register for the 2010 IFC Online here.

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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. Looks like members FreeCause and Charity Dynamics have teamed up to combine fundraising and web 2.0

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MARCH 6, 2009

What do you know, NTEN made the news! Check out this Chronicle of Philantrhopy article about our recent scholarship fundraising campaign. NTEN members rock when it comes to being generous with their awesomeness! Tags: NPTech community buzz moblie fundraising beth kanter NTEN nten members.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

I mentioned before that Convio, the main sponsor of 09NTC ( the Nonprofit Technology Conference from NTEN ), is matching funds in NTEN’s scholarship appeal. Tags: fundraising scholarship conference nten 09ntc events. It is truly an inspiring and unique event; I can’t recommend it enough.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

Peter Dietz has started a personal fundraising campaign. Peter Dietz has an article explaining why we need group fundraising RSS feeds. Marshall Kirkpatrick's Comparing 5 Ways To Tag Videos hit dig popular. Fight Hunger shares the results and learnings from its Second Life fundraising event "Walk the World."

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

So what can we fundraisers do to minimize the impact of this difficult period on our organizations, and at the same time maximize our income? Reassess the whole ball of wax: fundraising, marketing, communications. Our economy is still in bad shape, and a growing number of economists is telling us that it may well get worse.

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JANUARY 8, 2009

NTEN members: you're in the perfect position to make it happen. I put in a request to renew my NTEN membership with my fingers crossed, and my appeal was heard - I will be able to renew! . Now NTEN is offering its members even more to boost you through this challenging period. As of January 1, 2009, NTEN is: .

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

They had fundraising tools, client management tools, volunteer management tools, HR tools, accounting tools, etc. NTEN is trying to get a bit of a handle on this with the Data Ecosystem Survey. Tags: Nonprofit Tech CRM Data nptech nten openapi. painstaking export/import processes. Please take time to fill it out!

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MARCH 16, 2010

That's one of the reasons you soak up all NTEN has to offer about technology and engagement. While direct mail remains viable the impact over the long-term will diminish, particularly without integration with other communications, marketing and fundraising channels. Yeah, more people to do fundraising solicitations! 1946-1964).

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MARCH 16, 2009

Fellow NTEN members Green America (formerly Coop America) helped guide Peter to a wind-powered provider. Maddie Grant and Lindy Dreyer host a weekly NTEN Office Hour they call "NTEN Water Cooler Chat", every Thursday at 3pm ET. M+R released a new case study on the impact of premiums in online fundraising campaigns.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Flickr Photo: Tracy O Every September, our e-Newsletter focuses on fundraising. Tags: Fundraising NPTech NTEN. This year, we want you to tell us what you're planning for your end-of-year campaigns. Doing anything cool and innovative? Sticking to the tried and true? Contingency plans to allow for the sputtering economy?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

tags: nten 09ntc ). You may be familiar with the NTC ( Nonprofit Technology Conference ) hosted by NTEN. The following year, in Orlando, I coordinated the event as a consultant to NTEN along with Cheryl Hanback. Tags: 09ntc. Day Of Service View more presentations from Peter Campbell. You can sign up here.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

As soon as fundraisers gets involved, they're going to want to know how to convert conversations into donations. It's about community building first, fundraising second. "Direct online fundraising on our website and online donations are the first part," says David Armour, President. Don't jump the gun. Is it effective?

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