Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

One of the above is the actual cover of " Visualizing Information for Advocacy " - a must read booklet from Tactical Technology Collective. NpTech Conversations. For more NpTech Talk, see this roundup over at the NTEN blog. NpTech Slide Decks SlideShare is like YouTube for powerpoint presentations.

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APRIL 10, 2014

Today we give a huge thanks to our mighty team of NTEN Community Champions : you helped to collectively raise over $30,000 for the greater good of the #nptech community! Weiner Consulting Richard Wollenberger, Director of Information Technology, Parents as Teachers. So today, we tip our hats to you.

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MAY 13, 2010

That's where NTEN comes in. . NTEN is the membership organization for nonprofit professionals who put technology to use for their causes. The NPQ is a unique print magazine leaders count on to provide them with values-based management information and proven practices. NTEN's 2010 dues are now prorated, so you get a discount! >

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NTEN

APRIL 8, 2014

501 Tech Clubs are informal local groups that meet regularly to get to know their colleagues, develop a professional support network, and talk shop. To recognize the tireless work of volunteers that support the nonprofit sector, we’ll be publishing a blog post every day this week to celebrate their contributions.

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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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NTEN

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.) . Tags: community buzz NPTech nten members. Members are in bold.

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NTEN

MAY 9, 2011

By Jeff Stanger, Director, Center for Digital Information We are obsessed with data — big data, open data, linked data, personal data, government data, visualized data. It's important that we don't confuse "data" for "information." Data are only the raw material of information. So how do we get from data to information?

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NTEN

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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NTEN

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

The generosity of time given by nonprofit professionals has allowed NTEN to create reports on the state of IT staffing in the sector that have been read thousands of times. We've just opened the 5th Annual Nonprofit IT Staffing Survey , brought to you by NTEN and The Nonprofit Times. Tags: NPTech NTEN.

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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.) . Thanks, Robert, for sharing this information publicly so people see the trend!

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AUGUST 29, 2011

Flickr: LexnGer In case you hadn't noticed, NTEN is a community of nonprofit and technology professionals sharing information about using technology effectively for nonprofit work. That means all the knowledge behind NTEN resources – the how-tos, best practices, strategy tips, recommendations, etc.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 20, 2010

We are all very excited to announce today that NTEN has received a $1.15 This is the first grant NTEN has received from Google. So far, their tireless efforts to funnel strategic information, supportive community and valuable opportunities our way have been pretty monumental on minimal funding. million grant from the Google Inc.

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DECEMBER 20, 2010

Teaser: We are all very excited to announce today that NTEN has received a $1.15 This is the first grant NTEN has received from Google. You can read the official press release , but we thought you might rather read what a few members have to say: Blog Content: We are all very excited to announce today that NTEN has received a $1.15

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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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NTEN

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Over the years, we’ve had lots of requests for a job board for the NTEN community. We aim to please and we’re thrilled to announce a beta version of NTEN’s brand new job board. NTEN’s Nonprofit Tech Job Board is a platform dedicated exclusively to paid nonprofit technology career opportunities. Got questions? Suggestions?

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NOVEMBER 1, 2011

This month is all about YOU, NTEN Members! Each week, different NTEN staff will be taking the lead and asking members to share the spotlight about how technology is used in their work. You can participate and share your NTEN story by answering the prompt "I've been an NTEN Member for _ years because _ and I use technology to _."

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NTEN

MAY 11, 2011

Flickr: anythreewords Did you know that Fundrasing and Development staff was the fastest-growing constituency in the NTEN (read: nonprofit tech) community? > Please take the 2011 NTEN Community Survey Each year NTEN surveys the nonprofit technology community (that's YOU) to ask: How do you use technology in your work?

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Flickr Photo: TimPearce_ LosGatos If you've been following the NTEN blog this November, you've definitely caught on that it is Member Appreciation Month. The NTEN Program Team – Mimi, Brendan, and Anna plus you? On a yearly basis, we host over 100 webinars – including 13 this November, many of them free for NTEN Members!

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

Now that YouTube is the second largest search engine behind Google, now is the perfect time to create content that will inform, inspire and engage donors. Now that YouTube is the second largest search engine behind Google, now is the perfect time to create content that will inform, inspire and engage donors.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 5, 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.). And thanks to Deborah Elizabeth Finn for the heads up about Daniel for the nptech community.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Because, fundamentally, data is all relevant information that’s used in the service of making decisions, large or small. data Data Foundation Center Larry McGill Leadership nptech nten Communications Program' In this larger sense of the term, we all use data all the time.

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OCTOBER 23, 2013

Outcome information and measurement are the not-for-profit equivalents of the for-profit industry's return on investment. Gina Edwards Heart of Illinois United Way Leadership measurement nptech nten Strategy Program'

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

NTEN members generally rock, but every week we try to give props where props are due. This week in NTEN member news: . Check out the presentation slide-deck referenced in the post for detailed information about considerations and steps for making it easier to get your supporters to sign up and take action! " to the post.

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NTEN

MARCH 24, 2015

50 Fascinating Nonprofit Statistics , Douglas Gould Company Must-Know Insights from #15NTC , Kevin Martone, Harold Grinspoon Foundation via Getting Attention 15NTC: Tech Tools & Austin Tips , Roshani Kothari, Ginkgo Street Labs NTEN 2015 Wrap Up , Paul St. This much fun , Deborah Elizabeth Finn #15NTC = Amazing , Liza J.

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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.) Tags: community buzz nonprofit technology NTEN. Members are in bold.

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NTEN

AUGUST 17, 2012

NTEN Member Knight Foundation announced their latest Knight News Challenge: mobile. While you're out shaping the future, submit a new app idea to Mozilla Ignite, an open innovation challenge hosted by Mozilla, the National Science Foundation, and NTEN member ZeroDivide. Consider a world in which the internet is 250 times faster.

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JUNE 3, 2013

Chief Information Officer. But the question stuck with me, and I have an idea that I want to share, appropriately, with the NTEN community. But the question stuck with me, and I have an idea that I want to share, appropriately, with the NTEN community. Peter Campbell. Legal Services Organization.

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OCTOBER 22, 2013

Making outcome information readily available to donors can make the decision to donate easier. evaluation Leadership nptech nten overhead Richard Larkin Fundraising Program' But how can donors evaluate whether or not a charity will ultimately deliver on their promise or mission?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

NpTech Talk. And Congrats to Michele Murrain for joinging NTEN board !). NpTech Software. This one via NTEN and Neighborhood Networks Conference and this one via the nonprofit blog exchange. Most of the links identified have flowed through the NpTech Tag stream but nice to revisit them! Ruby Sinreich's Advocacy 2.0

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NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2013

The role of IT has historically been, “Here is your computer, and your database, and your file system, and this is how you enter information and save files.” However, it is rapidly becoming, “Here are all the ways you can work with information, now go to town and see how you can use this stuff to get our goals met!”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

Things are slowing down during the holidays , so here's a short version of the NpTech Tag Summary. Leave a comment and I'll summarize in the next NpTech Summary. Here some thoughts from the NTEN blog about ways to use twitter for your organization, although some nonprofit technology experts do not find twitter useful professionally.

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NTEN

JULY 15, 2014

Technology shapes how we learn, how we connect, and how we communicate, but not everyone has the basic skills and information they need to harness the power of the web. Tell us about your experience and we may feature your story in NTEN''s blog! Taking part in a Maker Party?

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NTEN

JULY 24, 2009

Friend of NTEN Avinash Kaushik says that organizations should aim for a bounce rate under 50%. But the first thing we need to focus on is the information architecture, or navigation, of our site. We need to integrate more of the great people and conversations that make NTEN what it is into the site. Our site has too many words.

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NTEN

JUNE 13, 2012

Thanks to a scholarship from NTEN, I was given the opportunity to fly to Sydney to attend the ConnectingUp! This is where 211 fits perfectly well with helping others connect with agencies and helps them find information on various organizations. Conference, to network with and learn from the Australian nonprofit technology sector.

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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2014

After Jason Shim won the 2014 NTEN Award in March, I thought I’d have a look to see why Amy Sample Ward and company thought so highly of him. One thing I’ve noticed about the NTEN award winners is their restless knowledge sharing in an array of subjects all over the place – not just in their own organizations.

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NTEN

AUGUST 2, 2010

After over a year of talking about an overhaul to the NTEN Member Directory , a couple of months ago, we finally took the first step: making it a priority. . After you're done reading, be sure to check out the new NTEN Member Directory !). Tags: NPTech NTEN. Incidentally, this is the launch. Haven't done it yet?

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DECEMBER 2, 2013

With 24/7 internet access on smartphones and tablets, folks these days are drowning in information. Data infographic Nicole Lampe nptech nten Communications Fundraising' But what is it that compels people to share, like, or tweet? Or to write a check or take action? As screens and attention spans shrink, so too must our content.

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