Tech Soup

JULY 17, 2015

adults still don't have broadband Internet access at home. The June 2015 FCC proposal calls for an expansion of Lifeline to provide low-income households with a choice of subsidized phone service or broadband Internet access. digital divide than anything I can think of since the invention of the Internet. Citizens Online.

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NTEN

JUNE 9, 2023

Keeping a nonprofit organization’s website secure is critical. Cyber-attacks can cause significant damage to an organization. Despite these, organizations in the nonprofit sector tend not to be at the forefront of devoting significant effort or resources to cybersecurity. Conduct regular security audits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2012

We’ll also share some some tips and frameworks for measuring engagement to improve relationships with your organization’s stakeholders. Engagement is the first step in building the relationship between your nonprofits’s supporters and the organization. That’s the secret!

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NTEN

JANUARY 19, 2015

How is the Internet making it possible for your organization to meet its mission? NTEN is excited to partner with Mobile Citizen on a new research project to explore how online services and Internet access help you and your colleagues deliver services and programs, and connect you with your constituents.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Empower field staff with instant access to online databases. If your nonprofit needs to be more productive, or cost-efficient, while on the go, it’s time to make a case for mobile Internet. Mobile Internet keeps key mobile staff connected and productive. Provide community-based access points for your programs.

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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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NTEN

JUNE 13, 2012

Thanks to a scholarship from NTEN, I was given the opportunity to fly to Sydney to attend the ConnectingUp! Many of the conference workshops helped in making me more aware of how to become a technology leader, not only within our organization but in sharing what I've learned with 211s across North America.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

Online Giving Remains Positive. But the latest online giving data shows continued growth. The Blackbaud Index of Online Giving was launched this year and measures online giving data from more than 1,700 organizations. Through June 2010, online giving was up 11.7% Size Matters in Online Giving.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

Colleagues Allyson Kapin who founded a web agency called Rad Campaign (they designed my blog) and Amy Sample Ward, who the NTEN Membership Director (and I’ve known since 2007 ) have published a new how to book called “ Social Change Any Time Every Where.” Click to see larger version.

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NTEN

JANUARY 4, 2012

Our first webinar of 2012 will help you get a handle on what it means to have an " Effective Internet Presence ". How can your organization's communications account for so many permutations? This webinar will first walk you through major internet trends. How to integrate messaging across online channels.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 24, 2012

The eight reports listed below are just a small sampling of the research available to nonprofits about online communications and fundraising, social media, and mobile technology. As the reports come in, I’ll organize them by continent. Published by NTEN. View: All NTEN Reports. Thank you. Published by Convio.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 10, 2014

Last year, NTEN Community Champions helped to raise over $36,000 to support the NTEN Community Challenge , which enhanced NTEN''s program accessibility, including sending over 50 people to the 2014 Nonprofit Technology Conference (14NTC) and the 2014 Leading Change Summit (14LCS) with scholarships.

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NTEN

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. The average online gift for the month of December increased to $248.82

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2018

To honor her memory, I’m rais ing money for NTEN to offer diversity, local, and general scholarships for the 19NTC in Portland. Despite her lack of comfort using online tools, she was interested in anything that her children were involved with, even if it wasn’t her cup of tea. Let me connect some dots.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 6, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Online Courses November 6, 2007 I’ve been thinking a lot about giving online courses in the use of open source software.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 13, 2014

TechSoup’s NetSquared groups are helping to keep the scary away with a series of online privacy and security events this October. We’ll help you #Do1Thing to manage your online reputation and keep your organization secure. NFN4Good: Your Organization on Google+ — Q&A with Birgit Pauli-Haack.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

I was lucky enough to attend NTEN's Nonprofit Cloud Computing Summit on Monday, August 29. I personally liked the definition presenter Peter Campbell, of Earthjustice , used: an outsourced platform, application, or suite of applications delivered over the Internet. The cloud is available anywhere you have an Internet connection.

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NTEN

MAY 24, 2012

To help you keep track of files while keeping your sanity, here are 5 of the tools that will make organizing your conference a breeze. Many of us in the nonprofit space know how much effort goes into organizing large, annual events. Last year, our organization, Games for Change , put together the largest Festival in our 8 year history.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

There is little debate that online communication, fundraising, and advocacy have become important parts of the modern nonprofit's fundraising and marketing mix. Some of the key trends supporting rapid adoption of technology by nonprofits are: 1) Online lifestyle, behavior and giving of consumers and donors leading to success.

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 12, 2014

Great news from a new study by M+R and the Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN): Online giving is bigger than ever. In 2013, internet users donated more than any previous year, with online giving up 14% since 2012. Here are three easy steps you can take this month to keep encouraging the online donation love.

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NTEN

JUNE 25, 2010

I'm betting the answer is the same for all of these: online. Even phone calls aren't phone calls anymore; increasingly they are Voice over IP calls that happen over the internet. This all works because the Internet is one thing above all else: OPEN. An internet that can be throttled is an Internet that can make them more money.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

We are, of course, sad that it means the NTEN office hasn’t moved to Chicago to be with her. In her time at NTEN, Julia shared many lessons that we will continue to learn from and laugh about for years to come. She will continue to be an active NTEN Member, so it’s not goodbye! Have any special “Julia” moments? 2 Herding cats?

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Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2009

Our pals at NTEN have put together a survey to poll how nonprofits are using social networking sites to increase their reach. Questions cover both external social networking efforts using sites like Twitter and Facebook to internal social networks that your organization may have created yourself (like a community forum). Tools Web 2.0

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NTEN

APRIL 2, 2014

Mellon Foundation, we''re able to offer the Nonprofit Tech Academy at no charge to qualifying organizations. I was very impressed with the caliber of experts and the diversity of presenters. I was initially very timid, because my knowledge base was low, but feel much more adept as a result of the Academy.

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NTEN

AUGUST 10, 2012

We wondered to what extent organizations were effectively replacing traditional IT functions and servers with Cloud solutions. Our interviews with diverse nonprofits revealed a number of great examples from local and international organizations of all sizes and from across a wide range of technology expertise.

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Everyaction

JULY 18, 2018

NTEN - Connect Monthly. Either way, NTEN's Connect newsletter is the one for you. Whether you like to skim the blog posts and webinars or get amongst the details, NTEN has everything you need. Subscribe if: You're as busy as all get-out, but you still want to read an article or two. Do you like your newsletters nice and brief?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2009

But, if an organization simply cuts and pastes a social media policy without the internal culture change, it won't be effective. Not only about the potential concerns and how to respond, but how the organization or its internal culture can embrace social media. Who acts as a spokesperson on behalf of the organization.

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NTEN

JANUARY 25, 2013

With an account, if somebody searches for info on, say "polar bears" -- and your organization is trying to ensure there's an ice cap left for them to do polar bear-y things on -- you can use AdWords to try to steer them to your web site. If polar bears learn to use the Internet, we're all in trouble.).

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NTEN

JUNE 9, 2011

Email is the annoying little brother of online communities: pesky, poking, insistent. But online communities are just one of millions of destinations competing for your community members' attention. But online communities are just one of millions of destinations competing for your community members' attention. That's so 1995.

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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. Day Of Service View more presentations from Peter Campbell. And, I've been doing it every year ever since.

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Forum One

MAY 27, 2009

Read More » Collaboration for Funders: Understanding the Challenges Joe Anderson in Influence 1 Jul 2010 This is part two of a series on online collaboration for grantmakers. youre a funder in the philanthropic sector, and youve concluded that online collaboration is a great tool for solving issues like. In this case.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 27, 2009

Some sessions are being broadcast live or presented via webinar through NTEN's site so even if you're not able to attend in person, you can still garner some useful info. Here are the details: Sessions Today: Building and Sustaining Vibrant Online Communities 1:30 p.m. What are the characteristics of successful online communities?

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NTEN

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Steve MacLaughlin, Director of Internet Solutions, Blackbaud. There's little doubt that most of us who use the Internet every day have at least heard about Net Neutrality. In short, there are corporate entities trying to control what gets sent over the Internet, and the Internet as we know and love it today might be lost.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 5, 2008

Read More » Collaboration for Funders: Understanding the Challenges Joe Anderson in Influence 1 Jul 2010 This is part two of a series on online collaboration for grantmakers. youre a funder in the philanthropic sector, and youve concluded that online collaboration is a great tool for solving issues like. In this case.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2013

The npEXPERTS e-book includes Forbes’ most influential, top bloggers, CFRE/ACFREs, animal lovers and association pros, pioneers and innovators, peer-to-peer fundraisers and direct response agitators, online fundraising experts and direct mail gurus all in one place. Want to Raise Money Online? and founder of www.fundraisingcoach.com.

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NTEN

JUNE 28, 2011

Read the complete article in NTEN's new quarterly journal for nonprofit leaders by subscribing to the journal for free! ] By Chris Bernard, Idealware It’s easy to get the impression that everyone is on Facebook these days, and maintaining a presence on the site is increasingly expected of organizations interested in engaging constituents.

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Forum One

APRIL 10, 2008

Read More » Collaboration for Funders: Understanding the Challenges Joe Anderson in Influence 1 Jul 2010 This is part two of a series on online collaboration for grantmakers. youre a funder in the philanthropic sector, and youve concluded that online collaboration is a great tool for solving issues like. In this case.

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