NTEN

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

We're less than 2 months away from the 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference, NTEN's signature three-day gathering that brings together nonprofit professionals – like you! Nearly 1,700 nonprofit professionals will gather in San Francisco at the beginning of April. We want you to be one of them.

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NTEN

JANUARY 18, 2011

Do you like sending deserving NPTechies to the greatest nonprofit technology conference on earth for free? Every year, we raise up to $10,000 to send staffers from small nonprofits to the NTC. Get 2 1-hour yoga sessions (in person or via video Skype) with nonprofit techie and certified yoga teacher, Megan Keane. What's that?

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 16, 2012

Keeping your critical data on an online cloud service has sparked ongoing debate in the nonprofit sector, not just in the U.S., argues that cloud-based services are likely to be safer and more secure than most in-house nonprofit computer systems. NTEN has done some great research on cloud computing. but all over the world.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 15, 2011

Like ‘how many times can I invite my Facebook friends to a fundraising event before it’s considered spam?’ " KnowHow’s impact — Knowhow Nonprofit – Here's a great example of how you can reinvent the way your organization reports it's impact! ’ Well, now’s your chance!

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NTEN

JANUARY 24, 2011

Scenario: Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, bacon and spam. Perhaps it's something else, but regardless the cause, some ingenious script-kiddy has turned the tables and suddenly you're responsible for thousands upon thousands of spam messages. The names have been changed to protect the paranoid.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

This is the second post in a year-long blog and webinar series called 101 Best Practices for Nonprofits , written and presented by Heather Mansfield. Please sign up for Nonprofit Tech for Good’s email newsletter to be alerted of new posts. BCC is an absolute worst practice, please don’t do it.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

The 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference session submission process yielded so many great session ideas, we couldn't include them all on the agenda. 10 Social Media Practices Your Nonprofit Should Know + Do (02/19). If you didn't, first check your spam filter (and then add us to your approved contacts list).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2009

. NTEN offered a fantastic Webinar today featuring Randi Zuckerberg, Director of Marketing at Facebook and Adam (didn't get his last name) from the DC Office on the emerging best practices for nonprofits who want to set up Facebook Fan Pages. Nonprofits on Facebook set up as a mechanism to share nonprofit best practices on Facebook.

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NTEN

JANUARY 4, 2010

Not only is it nifty piece, it attracted some of our best spam comments of the year: "Thanks for pants. Actually, some of the funniest protest signs of 2009 would make good spam comment fodder, if you happen to work for a fly-by-night SEO firm. Tags: NPTech NTEN Things We Like. " [Linked to Eastern European web site.].

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

RoundTables are monthly hour-long chats, free for NTEN Members, moderated by an NTEN member from the field of Consulting, Communications, or IT -- depending on which RoundTable it is. This tag seemed to be the most popular, but also brought up the least amount of spam as tweets.) This turns out to be #PDX - the airport code.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Whether your nonprofit organization provides services or advocates for a cause, your stakeholders have common interests. The nonprofit technology community is a robust knowledge sharing network widely dispersed across many blogs, tweets, discussion boards, Facebook walls, etc. By Laura Norvig, Special Librarian, the Resource Center.

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NTEN

JUNE 16, 2011

Read the complete issue of NTEN's new quarterly journal for nonprofit leaders by subscribing to the journal for free! ] The recent change was engendered not by a desire to block volunteers or constituents from sharing information, but by a drastic increase in Spam. “Up Too much Spam or other weird things happening.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 7, 2014

We organize these free tech-for-good training and networking gatherings because we believe that it’s critical to build strong, self-sufficient communities of nonprofit tech practitioners. Vancouver, Canada: The Canadian Anti-Spam Act: What you need to know before July 1. Guatemala: EgarageTec-Day International Girls in ICT 2014.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 24, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #5: WordPress January 24, 2008 It seems like a good day to talk about WordPress. Installation of WordPress is scarily easy. WordPress is expandable with tons of plugins.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2008

I like to track the data, but also think about what it means for nonprofits. His main point is that Twitter is not an advertising tool or spam tool. That nonprofits and companies should not set up a Twitter account to "prattle on about their products and services." Nonprofit Best Practices on Twitter. Here's how.

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NTEN

JANUARY 29, 2009

A monthly roundup of our favorite nonprofit tech resources. The SpamTrap , "an interactive installation piece that prints, shreds and blacklists spam email". Tags: NPTech NTEN Newsletter Things We Like. Read more posts on our blog. Terrific visual representations of data. since 1967. Need a techie on the cheap?

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

For most nonprofit organizations, bulk email -- email newsletters, action alerts or fundraising outreach -- is one of the most productive communications approaches there is. There’s no better way (yet) for a nonprofit to hit the communications trifecta -- reach, engagement and action. Why do you need an email service provider?

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

How is a CIO or IT manager with limited experience in a low-budget nonprofit to keep up without breaking the bank? For many of these issues, good spam/virus filtering is essential. It's fairly reasonable for a nonprofit and works quite well. Tags: Infrastructure Newsletter NPTech NTEN Planning IT Staff.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

If you're registered for the 2009 Nonprofit Technology Conference , congratulations on being one of over 1000 amazing people coming together for 3 days of awesomeness, April 26-28. (If You can already find Groups such as San Francisco Meetups, a DC-based group, Nonprofit CEOs, CiviCRM Users Group and many more!

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NTEN

MARCH 26, 2009

What if they become viral or even SPAM? . Michael is a contributor for The Nonprofit Technology Network as a speaker at their annual conference and offering his expertise to nonprofits through webinars, online office hours and writing articles. " But does that ring true in the new age of online marketing?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Social Networks and Digital Sharecropping October 1, 2007 I was reading Deborah Finn’s curmugeonly post about Facebook. I have been having curmudgeonly thoughts about social networks in general.

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Care2

MAY 14, 2009

M&R and NTEN just released an impressive benchmarks study that analyzed 32 nonprofits online advocacy and online fundraising programs in 2007 and 2008. The Nonprofit eBenchmarks study also analyzed specific list segments, such as donors vs. non-donors, geographically targeted audiences, surveys and tell-a-friend emails.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

Slide Share Show, " Putting the U in YouTube " although geared for higher education institutions provides some really good practical marketing tips for social networking sites that should be useful for nonprofits too. Yikes, the first ever tag spam I've seen in the NpTech Tag Stream! NetSquared. NpTech Talk. It's a must-read.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Also posted on the Frogloop blog for nonprofits here. spam filters: are you using spam-like words in any of your content? Sustainable product and solid support from a nonprofit specialist. Things to consider and target include: sender line: who is your email “from&#. design: is it clean? Network for Good : $29.95/month

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

This year's program is heavily weighted to the "social web" and nonprofits. Doug mentioned attending the NTC/NTEN conference in New Orleans and had RSS and Tagging ringing in his ears. Nonprofits lag behind the corporate sector. It's not about the nonprofit, it's about what they do for our stakeholders.

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Care2

MAY 14, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" What does all of this data mean for nonprofits? Don’t be too alarmed though.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

Nancy Schwartz invited me to submit a piece for next week's Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants theme on "Using Social Networking Tools." Myspace avoids spamming so the members usually blocks people from adding them directly unless you know them personally or their email. YouTube is also good in finding videos about Guimaras.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Are you considered a social media guru (gag), maven (double gag), or rock star (gag me all the way) at your nonprofit or charity? This is helpful as a number of different staff are involved in live-tweeting NTEN webinars. In this blog post, Beth Kanter looks at nonprofit leaders who are enthusiastically using social media.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Writing last month's post about how NTEN differentiates between types of open rate made me think about the ways we've worked to boost our numbers. While you should keep in mind that all of this is based on data specific to NTEN – your own results may vary – here are 14 ways we've worked to achieve that modest bump. so far this year.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 15, 2010

Many nonprofits treat their email program as simply a digital version of their postal mail efforts. Even worse, if enough of them use the "Uninvite" (or "Spam") button, you might find yourself permanently uninvited from your entire email list. Tags: E-mail NPTech NTEN Communications.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Come to our session at the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference to hear the rest! By scheduling updates, you keep your communication regular -- and you can repost, without spamming the airwaves. For more ideas on how to increase your organizations communication capacity, join our session at the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference !

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Come to our session at the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference to hear the rest! By scheduling updates, you keep your communication regular -- and you can repost, without spamming the airwaves. For more ideas on how to increase your organizations communication capacity, join our session at the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2007

I've been trying to collect screen captures and stories about nonprofit web analytics for a screencast on Google Analytics for NTEN. I did not include spam comments or my own). I try to link to and encourage as many nonprofit bloggers as possible and help them increase their technorati rating. A time consuming pain.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 2008

The NTEN project WeAreMedia project is an excellent personal learning laboratory for reflection and insights about this topic. I'm noticing a lot of "edited by guest" changes coming through - so as long we don't get spam or mischief I think this good to encourage participation. Photo by Robert Francis. breadth.???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2009

Sure, Twitter is banal and trivial, full of self-promotion and outright spam. Now that Twitter is being used by more and more businesses and nonprofits, Twitter Codes of Conduct are being added to social media policies. So is the Internet. There's no such thing as oversharing when you're a writer.

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Care2

JUNE 1, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" nonprofits in 2008. nonprofits in 2008. So I do know whereof I write.

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Care2

APRIL 16, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Sheeraz Haji: Back then I had the naïve view that all nonprofits were alike.

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