NTEN

AUGUST 5, 2009

We sat down for five minutes to define ROI for nonprofits, talk about the challenges of measuring intangibles, and how to use ROI to your advantage: And if you want to learn more about ROI and how to use it in your organization, be sure to register for the Online Technology Conference: Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Wordle of Words Participants Use To Define ROI Yesterday I taught the fifth and final webinar as part of NTEN/TechSoup Global Webinar Series: Social Media and Storytelling. I'll need to tweak the "Y" access because gathering insight is a continuous process and there are elements of listen, learn, and adapt in a traditional ROI process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2009

Flickr Photo by Cursed Thing Last year at this time, I was in Austin, TX doing a keynote workshop for Legal Services Corporation on the ROI of Nonprofit Technology. I still think these are components are essential and should be applied to looking at the ROI (Results on Insight) for nonprofits and social media. Do you agree?

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NTEN

JULY 9, 2010

HaitiAidMap from InterAction (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.) . Also mentioned in the article are NTEN members Kivi Leroux.

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NTEN

JANUARY 14, 2009

Beth Kanter and NTEN have spent almost a whole year working on the We Are Media project, and we've learned a few important things. How would you measure the ROI of the video? . There are some emerging companies working their way toward tracking this third dimension of social media ROI. Tags: NPTech roi web2.0

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NTEN

MARCH 15, 2009

Proving ROI to your managers. Tags: NPTech sxswnp roi measurement sxsw. Some of the issues our poets raised: Combining qualitative and quantitive data. Using measurement as a learning tool. Whether or not online mom communities are mean. So if you missed it, here it is!

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Last week Beth Kanter presented on a Webinar about ROI, click here to view the recording. This was the last of five Webinars in a series provided TechSoup Global and NTEN. Tags: Online Seminar Web 2.0 If you didn't have a chance to participate in the Storytelling & Social Media series now is your chance to watch all five.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2009

I've been doing a lot of thinking about "ROI, Social Media, and Nonprofits" in preparation for a book chapter and several upcoming presentations, workshops, and webinars over the next couple of months. I've also been thinking about traditional ROI processes in the nonprofit technology context. Tags: ROI listening.

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NTEN

MARCH 20, 2009

Flickr: cwalker71 The 2009 Women Who Tech panels were announced this week, and we're glad to see so many NTEN members representing the women who nptech! Fellow Aussie NTEN member David Jacquier has already made the long trip to the US to attend the SxSW conference in Austin. That's a long flight, y'all!

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

about the early days and evolution of nptechies working with the web, and you'll probably see some names your recognize, including current and past NTEN members like Ami Dar of Action Without Borders/Idealist.org. NTEN member organization MPower rebrands itself as Orange Leap (and NTEN's Holly Ross appreciates it ).

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NTEN

MARCH 6, 2009

Flickr Photo: _ES Amy Sample Ward lays out 5 strategic steps for measuring the ROI of social media for your organization. What do you know, NTEN made the news! NTEN members rock when it comes to being generous with their awesomeness!

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

LOLnptech Lot's of member news and activity online this week, so, in the order that I ran across them: NTEN member organization United Nations Foundation was mentioned in a Forbes article discussing ways nonprofits are raising money in tough times. Rockstar Beth Kanter presented on social media ROI. One tactic is going online.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 21, 2009

Today was the first webinar in the Storytelling & Social Media series from NTEN and TechSoup Global. Today’s webinar focused on the building blocks of social meda; things like tagging, RSS and how to get started finding the conversations taking place online. tags: nonprofit nptech ). How do you create a tag?

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NTEN

MARCH 16, 2009

Fellow NTEN members Green America (formerly Coop America) helped guide Peter to a wind-powered provider. Maddie Grant and Lindy Dreyer host a weekly NTEN Office Hour they call "NTEN Water Cooler Chat", every Thursday at 3pm ET. Tags: NPTech community buzz online fundraising nten members.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

For more NpTech Talk, see this roundup over at the NTEN blog. The good folks at Care2 (Heather Holdridge, Justin Perkins, and James O'Malley) have a detailed case study on the NTEN blog about the top Facebook winner of the recent Case Foundation America's Giving Challenge. Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

The Three Dimensions of Social Media ROI | NTEN: The Nonprofit Technology Network - Holly Ross has an excellent post and commentary about measuring ROI: "return on investment is really hard to determine. Tags: roundup bookmarks. Here's an interview with Danielle on NWF's use of Twitter.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 30, 2009

FreePress , Democracy In Action , Rad Campaign , Convio , Care2 , NTEN , Massey Media and Network Solutions. Tags: community events conference event technology women wwt. Check out these awesome panels and sign up today. Don’t miss this year’s telesummitt. A big thank you goes out to them. Questions, comments?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

NTEN and Jossey-Bass/Wiley is hosting the " Online NTC ," a 2-day online conference based on the book, Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission. I'm honored to have a chapter in the book about ROI and you can hear geek out about it here. A free copy of the NTEN book, Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission ($40 value).

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OCTOBER 19, 2007

NTEN's Call for NTC Sessions - Deadline October 24th. Nonprofit Social Media ROI and Adoption Issues The meme of the last week continues with a look at specific metrics like engagement. Need to catch up last week's ROI conversations so you can jump in - start here. Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

Tag your post with "net2thinktank." The Nonprofit Eye walks us through how to compute the ROI of ITC for nonprofits. NTEN blog summarizes the discussion thread about wiki software from the listserv on its blog. NTEN blog reviews the Google Presentation tool and is sticking with powerpoint.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2008

Over the next six months, I will have the pleasure of working with NTEN and Holly Ross on a new community-driven funded by the Surdna Foundation. The resulting curriculum which will live on this wiki and will also cover important organizational adoption issues, strategy, ROI analysis, as well as the tools.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 29, 2010

Given the multiplicity of nonprofit-related examples -- including the past 2 issues of NTEN Connect -- crowdsourcing may very well be (part of) the future of nonprofit problem solving. Social Media ROI: " If you're spending more time counting than you are doing, has your ROI focus run amok? And the future of Old Spice Man?

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

If you haven't been attending the Storytelling & Social Media series , presented by Techsoup Global and NTEN, you've been missing out! . Danielle Brigida from NTEN Member organization NWF gave a great introduction to using social news and bookmarking tools to help "create buzz" for your organization's news and issues.

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NTEN

MAY 6, 2009

Holly Ross of NTEN. Check out these awesome panels: Social Media ROI. Tags: NPTech NTEN WWT. Shireen Mitchell of Digital Sistas. Deanna Zandt. Rebecca Moore of Google Earth Outreach. and so much more. When : May 12, 2009. Panels run from 11AM EDT to 6PM EDT. Where : Everywhere via phone and web. Women and Open Source.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

One hopes that nonprofits deciding to roll their own social networks, aren't creating their own social silos and have gone into it with a solid strategy, clear objectives and measurable metrics , and can evaluate the ROI. Oh, I so want a NTEN baseball cap !) So, I have no idea why this page was tagged with NpTech. And if you???re

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Robert Weiner

APRIL 28, 2009

Value-based pricing - what is the project worth, including me, the client, and the market (book: Million Dollar Consulting) — you get pragmatic — what is the ROI, what are the metrics and quantification of success? Tags: Consulting NTEN. Teaming up with other consultants.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

Submitted by Holly Ross, publisher of NTEN Your job isn't going to exist in a few years, and it ain't the economy's fault. The ReadWriteWeb report has a price tag, but it's well worth it if you're really considering these issues. Is the ROI all about the web metrics? Blame it on social media. Chief among them: who does it?

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NTEN

OCTOBER 19, 2010

A hashtag is similar to other web tags: it is metadata that helps add tweets to a category. Hashtags have the 'hash' or 'pound' symbol (#) preceding the tag.: Just as you might tag a Web bookmark in a social bookmarking site such as the now defunct Xmarks.com and Del.icio.us traffic, #followfriday, #hashtag.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

We also invite you to join us for the remaining webinars in the NTEN and TechSoup Global Social Media & Storytelling Webinar Series : Podcasting (1/28/2009, 11am PT) Presented by: Corey Pudhorodsky. Social Media ROI (2/18/2009, 11am PT) Presented by: Beth Kanter . Social Media ROI (2/18/2009, 11am PT) Presented by: Beth Kanter .

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NTEN

MARCH 26, 2009

Do you think I can keep up with this NTEN webinar or that conference session on this topic?" How do I measure the effectiveness (ROI) of social media? Here are some additional resources geared specifically to the nonprofit application of social media: NTEN eNews article: Developing a Social Media Plan: Lessons from 2008 Elections.

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NTEN

AUGUST 10, 2009

More in-depth, financial metric focused ROI, perhaps in a Roundtable discussion format. ROI on Fundraising Metrics -- fundraising sessions need to incorporate concrete fundraising metrics, even when focus is communications strategy. Categorize/tagging sessions or content for organization size or type. Change Management.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

NTEN is very lucky that Dahna Goldstein, founder of PhilanTech , wrote the chapter "Managing Technology Change" in our about-to-be-published book, Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission. Tags: NPTech bev magda dahna goldstein NTEN change management 09NTC. I could not agree more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

Photo by Marco Wessel Yesterday, I had the pleasure of attending one of NTEN's "Ask the Expert" calls and chats with Wendy Harman who is the professional listener for the Red Cross. Tags: cute dog theory ROI listening 2ndwave. She has a social media elevator pitch just in case she runs into one of the senior managers.

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NTEN

MAY 15, 2009

Nonprofits in the study segmented in some pretty interesting ways, increasing their ROI along the way. Tags: Advocacy benchmarks email Fundraising m+r marketing metrics newsletters NPTech NTEN. Will gift size increase with an economic turnaround? Small is the new big. We're increasingly savvy in our list segmentation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

Return on Investment, Return on Reflection: I will integrate my work on social media ROI with general nonprofit technology ROI More about this theme is below because it will be a major focus area for me this year. Return on Reflection: This inquiry won't be all number crunching because you really miss the value of a ROI analysis.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

If there's one thread that runs through nearly every discussion in the NTEN community, it's something like: "How do I convince folks higher up the ladder that this is worth pursuing?" " We hear a lot of answers, answers that involve ROI, patience, and the like. Flickr: elyob. I've dished out plenty of platitudes myself.

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 11, 2009

This list came from my head, my bookmarks, and lists compiled by NTEN and Idealware for their donor management software surveys (and I’m not certain all of these are actually donor databases). ROI Solutions. Tags: Donor Databases Advancement Services. It does not include custom systems, of which there are many. Revolution.

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