NTEN

APRIL 6, 2015

Good Works. Nearly a year ago, my colleagues Fraser Green, Todd Jamieson, and I decided we could no longer simply work with unreliable or incomplete statistics and benchmarks about nonprofit websites in Canada, and that you shouldn’t have to either. The State of the (Canadian) (Web) Nation, according to over 500 charities.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 10, 2008

We decided to pick today's Member Appreciation Month winner from the NTEN LinkedIn Group (a group exclusively for NTEN members). We often get requests from folks wanting to join the NTEN group who have never interacted with our organization before. Creating a group on LinkedIn is easy. Creating a group on LinkedIn is easy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

However, some webinar platforms have a real-time polling feature, the virtual equivalent of asking people to raise their hands if. The poll revealed that revealed 40% were beginners/novices and 60% intermediate or experts. For the intermediate users, I put them to work sharing their knowledge.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 24, 2015

On this 10th anniversary of the Hurricane Katrina disaster, we polled a variety of smart NPtech cognoscenti on the single most important thing charities need to do to prepare for a disaster. Amy Sample Ward — CEO, NTEN. With a documented procedure and technology that works from anywhere with an Internet connection.

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NTEN

JUNE 30, 2010

This was followed by each of the evaluation questions (pre-recorded by NTEN's own Holly Ross) and a prompt for their answers. Online: On the backend, this system was nearly identical to the Call-In option, as the two were just different input options for the same Precision Polling system.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

What worked well (and why). Another thing that Sullivan said worked well was the ability to set up multiple call-in numbers for each of the main local mobile providers in the region: Vodacom, Zain, and Tigo. But many users had never completed an SMS poll before and were confused on how to submit a vote. .

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

Experimentation through initiatives such as these apps has synchronously impacted the work of legacy media. Shining a spotlight on a problem worked when you were the only show in town. Neel also suggested, “Use data that comes out of a poll and use it to build a series on a subject, such as the social determinants of health.”

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

As calls increase for charities to be more open and accountable in their management and reporting, it is natural for many of them to ask, considering the extra work involved, "What’s in it for us? For donors, they would point to the number assisted as undeniable evidence that support for their work was warranted. Penna, Ph.D.,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2021

As the pandemic continues, most nonprofit workplaces will become a combination of virtual and on-site work. Now, with over a year of virtual meetings under our belts and the future of office-centric work for all being unclear, hybrid meetings are likely to become our new normal. Give your remote participants a seat at the table.

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NTEN

JANUARY 28, 2011

Memorizing it may even help you get a job, because: CareerBuilder's IT hiring poll reports that 44% of IT employers will place greater emphasis on social media in 2011. He spent 6 years working on the film! There's only one thing we can say about this chart tracking the " History of Social Media " from 550 BC to the present: fantastic!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

I've been involved with teaching and learning technology for nonprofits since 1993 when I worked for the New York Foundation for the Arts' online network for artists, Arts Wire. If I'm doing a Webinar, I might use the poll feature and do my research in real time. My job was the network weaver.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

According to a recent poll by the Association of Fundraising Professionals, two-thirds of nonprofits are using social media, and 39% of respondents said they feel these tools are important for reaching the greatest number of donors. Tags: NPTech NTEN. By Bob Alves, President and CEO, Advanced Solutions International.

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

All that being said, let’s assume you're redoing your organizational web site, and want to make it work well for your visitors arriving from social media communities. Here are a few tips for making it work best: Targeted Landing Pages : Control your destiny where you can. If it works for Hotels.com, why wouldn’t it work for your site?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Moderated by NTEN membership director, former NetSquared organizer, and friend of TechSoup Amy Sample Ward , "Rethinking Movement Buildling" brought together three luminaries from organizations whose stock-in-trade are movements to promote social change. It didn't really work (according to Flower). The result?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

Does Twitter Work Better As A Listening Tool. " Complaints and Celebrations: Holly Ross at NTEN described what she listens for when she puts her listening ears on for Twitter - this includes listening to people's complaints and celebrations. She later wrote more about this in a expanded post on the NTEN blog.

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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. They are working on having the ability to change it, but not high priority.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

From last week's Web2.04Dev Conference is a snap poll " What does Web2.0 " -- the poll was done with mp3 files and so you can hear their voices. Facebook The Non-Profits on Facebook Group is for those who work for, belong to, or support nonprofits on Facebook. mean for you? hard to use ?"

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

LazyFeed consumes both PubSubHubbub and RSSCloud feeds in real-time as part of its topical blog search and YourVersion won't disclose what technology it uses but says the company has been working on real time since before it was cool. There would be no reason for Google to poll websites for changes over and over again.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

Research firm Quorus Consulting Group polled 2,003 teens and adults in April 2011. Given the level of consumer awareness and receptivity to mobile giving, it is apparent that more work can be done to educate mobile phone users about how the text-to-give channel for donating works.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 5, 2009

And to help capture all the great insight the nonprofit community has in store with its resolutions, we’ve also created a poll to capture your ideas on how to make technology work for you and your organization in 2009. Most of my friends rarely follow through on their resolutions (never me, of course!),

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2009

During the NTC, ThePort Network, Inc , NTEN , and Common Knowledge released results of a survey that examines the use of social networking as a marketing and fundraising tool. The survey polled 978 nonprofit professionals about their organizations’ use of commercial social networking sites (e.g. I was quoted as saying that USAToday.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

It's not enough to just share stories about your impact — how do you mobilize and engage people who are passionate about issues you're working on? Maddie Grant, founding partner at Culture That Works and NTEN board member. What's worked really well in terms of engaging influencers and champions?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2006

If you've been following my widgets category , you know that I'm working on a screencast and have been researching and playing with widgets. For example, linking a poll to a post on the topic. Based on photo entitled " Gear " from Flattop341's Flickr Industrial Set. RSS widgets as seen on AFP Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2012

I was lucky to have a front row seat at the beginning of the nonprofit tech field back in 1992 – when nonprofits were first exploring how the Internet could be used for activist and mission-driven work. I confess to being an early adopter – someone who overpaid for technology tools that didn’t work and still do that today.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Someone on the 501 Tech Club NY list ( NTEN Affinity Group ) suggested a name change might be needed. There is now a poll to vote on names suggested by people. A Blast from the Past Gavin has posted some really early photos of the founding meetings for Aspiration, NTEN, and the NSNT on flickr. Hence, they're pretty lousy photos.

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NTEN

MARCH 15, 2011

By Carrie Spates, Design Manager, Siteworx Nonprofit clients I work with generally have mastered the art of engaging members and supporters once they are in the door. Polling widgets are a fun and simple way to interact with visitors on your site. Use more of what's working; put aside what's not. Start a Conversation.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

I work with Bonasources Wild Apricot marketing team. Random Thoughts on Life and Work. Reader Polls. Im Rebecca Leaman, and its my pleasure to join the Wild Apricot blog team in exploring how to use the internet and web 2.0 tools more effectively. Currently I am the primary blog writer. Read more about this blog. High Context.

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Care2

JANUARY 15, 2009

Get Interactive: Ask people to take a poll or share a story. Receive monthly updates 3 Comments | by Share Article in E-newsletters , Email Marketing Reader Comments (3) One thing Ive found that works extraordinarily well for large, national NGOs is mailing on local issues. by age, interest, activism level).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Here's a nice collection of links from the NTEN blog with good footnotes that includes a pointer to the ChicagoTechnology Cooperative , a group comprised of consultants, technicians, developers, and designers, with extensive experience serving the unique needs of nonprofit and community-based organizations. Using Web2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2009

I have not been blogging because I've been at the NTEN NTC Conference , the premier event for nonprofit techies taking place in San Francisco. She got a rousing standing ovation and Clay Shirky said that he was working on his dance movements because she was a hard act to follow! What makes the convening work? Failure for free.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

Original photo remixed from flickr photo by Stinky Peter Screencast in conjunction with NTEN View the screencast as higher quality flash file -takes longer to download here. My screencast on widgets is featured in this month's NTEN newsletter in a section pointing to " How To Build Online Community." I'm so excited!

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 11, 2007

Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week.

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NTEN

JUNE 6, 2011

By Annaliese Hoehling, Publications Director, NTEN. I also informally polled the NTEN community. Sometimes that works; other times it doesn't.". Each role is crucial to nonprofit work – but the turf on which these roles must perform is increasingly becoming the same place: the social web.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 31, 2006

Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 22, 2018

Leading edge organizations are putting the bots to work for social change. The bot, available via Twitter and Facebook Messenger, polls its followers (called ‘U-Reporters’) on a range of topics and uses the data to help influence public policy. Note: Versions of this blog post were published on Guidestar and NTEN blogs.

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

Older-style traditional sites pretty much required a progression that ensured the design work was done first. Modern web projects should take advantage of staff with design skills, including Dreamweaver, Photoshop and the rest; work with those tools still plays an important role. It's all about getting things into the right balance.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2008

These site subscribers are the hubs of their own social networks -- a population un-polled by traditional pollsters but known to the campaigns. Widgets: These small pieces of computer code let you to download polling, and candidate news and information directly to your web site, desktop or mobile device. Should the message be the same?

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