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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

NpTech Conversations. Here's one of her training presentations. For more NpTech Talk, see this roundup over at the NTEN blog. Ethan Zuckerman gives a summary of Pros/Cons of facebook Activism , a presentation by Imran Jamal and the Burma Global Action Network. So, you want to build a MashUp? for NGOs there.

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NTEN

APRIL 10, 2009

After Idealware 's latest report reviewing Open Source CMS tools , there were, as might be expected, a few dust-ups in the open source developers and users communities, which includes NTEN members like David Geilhufe. He's the co-organizer of the Austin 501 Tech Club and a presenter at the upcoming NTC.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 30, 2008

Amy is a great source for nptech tips of all types. and social network guru for the nptech community. Komen for the Cure, for their Salesforce-based application formerly known as Aikido, presently known as Common Ground. David is always a great source for thoughtful insights about open source.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

Tobias Eigen from Kabissa presented at the Web2fordev: Remixing the Web for International Development. He also shares the key points of his presentation here. LolNptech commentary about a recent NTEN Discuss List thread. Changing the Present has launched a Facebook application adding to the virtual gift community.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

While the meebo nptech chat room is chatting live during the PDF, a few tweets overheard on twitter anticipate the upcoming NetSquared Conference. Webinars about personal fundraising (with Kevin Bacon) and Open Source Software (Michelle Murrain) over at NTEN next week. NetSquared Community. Momentum is building.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

This post traces the evolution of social networking sites from the 80's to present time, although missing a few major early players. Michelle Murrain is doing a post about 100 free and open source software tools. NTEN's monthly roundup of tech resources called " Things We Like " (and I'll add to "fondle.")

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NTEN

MARCH 4, 2010

Pop quiz: What do Amnesty International , Monty Python , the White House , and NTEN have in common? Or you may be looking for a CMS platform for your next web site, and giving Drupal a hard look -- and not just because it's free and open source, but that helps, right? Series Cost: $100 for NTEN Members / $200 for non-members.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

Conversation Tracking in the NpTech Space There quite a blog buzz about the need for a Netsquared European Remix going on. Inspired by the NTEN blog post about whether online engagement leads to more money, Gavin's Digital Dinner gives a brilliant counter point essay on the topic filled with facts and nice pie charts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

NpTech Conversations Convio Opens Up API Jason at DIA summarizes the posts and the bigs news in the nptech field this last week - Convio Releases An Open API. NTEN's Call for NTC Sessions - Deadline October 24th. Kevin j points to a pretty amazing movie from the presentation at last week's Net Tuesday.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

Deborah Finn isn't crazy about Facebook, although she likes giving virtual gifts and especially using the applications of her clients, like Changing the Present. Social Source blog (whose new blog template sports Facebook colors and font style) takes issue with Deborah's post. Is Facebook becoming the default front end for nonprofits?

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 29, 2009

A Free Photos Directory , Free Video Directory and Free Music Directory that offers nonprofits, cause organizations and Web publishers a guide to hundreds of online resources for adding legal, high-quality content to their own Web sites, blogs, podcasts, newsletters, printed materials or online presentations.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 23, 2011

New Report: 2011 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study | NTEN – "A high unsubscribe rate is bad, right? Not necessarily, according to the 2011 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study, just released at the 2011 NTC by M+R and NTEN. During the session, I captured the presentations and audience Q & A.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

Unfortunately, the nptech world hasn’t yet caught on to the “Planet&# phenomenon of the open source world (see Planet Ubuntu Women.) These are sites that are simply aggregators of the blogs of those involved in a particular open source project (like, in this case, women involved in Ubuntu ).

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NTEN

AUGUST 26, 2010

We're always looking to balance sessions across tracks, open source v. Oh, and women vs. men presenters. Women and Open Source and Identity. Tags: NPTech womenwhotech WWT IT Staff. After that comes the hard part: figuring out what to put on the final agenda. It's a balancing act -- literally. And more…. >

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

A Few NpTech Conversations. Also found in the NpTech tag stream and a good backdrop to this conversation is " When the best tool for the job. ActiveCollab an open source project management tool. The Nonprofit CMS blog shares some agruments against Open Source. Check this out - NTEN's Wikipedia entry !

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NTEN

MAY 4, 2009

Flickr Photo: ann.a.liese The NTEN Award is given each year to a person who lives the values of our community. At NTEN, we are all practical dreamers, we're open and authentic with one another, and we hold each other accountable. NTEN Member John Merritt, from the YMCA of San Diego County , embodies all of these ideals.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

I have some great clients, and I feel like I get to be an educator – I spend lots of time educating my clients on the ins and outs of the varied technology issues presented (and what is, and is not a technology issue.) Pretty presentation with no content is useless. I love this work. I hate to be pushed. Be Helpful.

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NTEN

MAY 17, 2013

In September 2012, Jason led a team to create Txtocracy.com , an open-source project that aims to increase voter turnout via text message reminders. Shubhagata has also been the youngest presenter for two consecutive years at the annual conference of the Nonprofit Technology Network. Follow Shub @shubsengupta.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Sometimes the engineer and the user/manager are the same person -- if a small organization is using some open source tool by themselves to build a website, for example. I prepared a handout summarizing these points for a presentation I did awhile back, but let's dive in to the details.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 19, 2011

And it seems that this, and the absence in WordPress of a way to easily control the way that lists of content are presented and viewed are the major platform differentiators. Also, I have to say, as much as I have respect for other Open Source CMS platforms, IMHO, 98% of websites can be served by either of these platforms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

Do you think Open Source is like fair trade coffee ? How do you see gift economies operating in the nonprofit open source community, the nonprofit blogosphere, and nonprofit tech community in general? What are the 3-5 best blogs by UK folks writing about nps, social change, or nptech that you read regularly?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

It is based on some open source code called Pligg that creates a "digg" like interface. The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. Someone on the 501 Tech Club NY list ( NTEN Affinity Group ) suggested a name change might be needed.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

How research or any type of findings are packaged and presented can impact how readily the knowledge is put into practice.". In order to enhance the transfer of knowledge, it is important that the messenger be seen as a credible expert on the information being presented. ". Evaluation. impacts on decision making). Comment Notification.

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Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Panelist: Dan Willis, Consultant for Sapient 3.

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Care2

MAY 4, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) April 27 , 2009 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM 3.

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NTEN

JANUARY 4, 2012

Tip 2: Assess your personnel - present and future. For simple, outsourcing the build could still be a good choice, but may not be necessary, depending on whether existing staff want to give the build a try. Do you have a full time staff member who lives and breathes Drupal?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

Photo from my flickr stream View the Tagging Screencast Presented by NTEN. I'm pleased to announce that my screencast about tagging has been released and showcased by NTEN ! It was even favorited by this guy I don't know named Joshua ) I've also had many requests from folks to use in their tagging presentations.

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2009

But other models exist -- namely implementing, investing, and collaborating in open source software. All software costs money and/or time to implement, whether it be proprietary, software-as-a-service, or open source. It takes into consideration the philosophical values of open source (or open data).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

NpTech Themes Nptech Tag News: The NpTech Community site can be found at: [link]. Unthinkingly experiments with visualizing NpTech Tag data with Many Eyes. DEMO 07 NpTech Bytes: DEMO 07 is a conference focused on cutting edge and emerging technology, mostly for the business sector. The offline wikipedia, Moulin.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 8, 2013

Of course we’ll use mobiles more and more, but for heads-down work on longer documents, spreadsheets, presentations, serious data base projects, graphic design, and anything else that involves looking at a screen for hours at a time and using a proper keyboard – I’ll be keeping my laptop and will be glad to have it.

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