Tech Soup

MAY 1, 2017

This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN's Tech Clubs , and HandsOn Tech. Chicago, Illinois: Knowledge Mapping for Greater Social Good. Parakou, Benin: Les Avantages de l'Adoption d'Office 365 dans vos Organisations non Lucratifs. Find your closest NetSquared group.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Donations via text messages , tweeting real-time updates , mapping need and resources : all examples of stories that captured our sector's attention and got people talking about mobile. More nonprofits are adopting it and experimenting with it as a communications and engagement channel. The time for mobile is clearly now.

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Tech Soup

JULY 6, 2015

This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN's Tech Clubs , HandsOn Tech , DataKind , and more. New Orleans, Louisiana: Putting NOLA on the Product Hunt Map. Seattle, Washington: Know Thyself: Considerations for Nonprofit SharePoint Adoption. Upcoming Events.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

NTEN is offering a Webinar on Google Aps. NTEN posts about screencast about GoogleAps and SalesForce Integration for nonprofits. tools to adopt. It's an online collaborative mapping tool. You import mindmap maps into it and can be useful for notetaking in real time on conference calls. More buzz here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2009

Colin McKay (aka Canuck Flack ) in his Nonprofit Secret Underground Guide To Social Media Adoption suggests that most nonprofit organizations (well large ones) already have policies in place to deal with potential concerns about social media. That social media doesn't create new behavior, only amplifies existing behaviors.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Now more than ever, nonprofit boards need to adopt a technology strategy to help improve everything from communication to compliance. Now more than ever, nonprofit boards need to adopt a technology strategy to help improve everything from communication to compliance. Why technology? Why technology?

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NTEN

JUNE 18, 2009

Amazon S3, Google Checkout, Google Maps, PayPal). As a result, your overall cost for adopting a system is reduced. What are NTEN, TechSoup, and Idealware saying about the solutions? Tags: cloud computing Newsletter NPTech NTEN rem hoffmann rob jordan. Amazon Web Services, Force.com, Facebook). Do some reading, too.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

note: This article is part of NTEN's Member Appreciation Month spectacular. By hard coded, I mean in the legal policies you've adopted, the features you've released and prioritized, your data taxonomies, your site map and information hierarchy. Rachel Weidinger. [Ed. The most popular pieces will be featured in our newsletter.

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NTEN

MAY 9, 2011

This shift started fifteen years ago with the widespread adoption of the World Wide Web. A handful of examples from just this past week: Al Gore and PushPopPress: Our Choice iPad App The White House: Excess Federal Properties Interactive Map New York Times: Osama bin Laden Reactions Interactive Texas Tribune: U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Mapping Strategy to Metrics, Benchmarking, and ROI. Are you impulse adopting tools? Attend NTEN's NTC Conference in April and attend the social media tracks. Take my information overload quiz. Look at your score and ask yourself the following reflection questions. Learn to use the tools that help you measure success.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

But if little ol' NTEN can pull off a BI strategy -- and we do our best over here -- so can you. It's all about mapping data to business needs to make better decisions. Here at NTEN, we confused the two for a long time. You need leadership skills to drive adoption and participation across the organization. What about you?

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NTEN

MARCH 12, 2010

The widespread adoption of social media is clearly the most important trend for nonprofit technology in 2010. Budgets, time, and staff priorities can’t be an excuse because there are always ways to get it done if you have the road map. Speaker: Michael Hoffman, See3. What's the most important trend in nonprofit technology for 2010?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

over at her Netsquared blog about adoption of blogs and wikis in an organizational context and how these tools further organizational mission. Steve Anderson continues his series on donation process maps. Social Explorer Maps - interactive Census maps! Check this out - NTEN's Wikipedia entry ! and asking for ideas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

Source: Dollar Bin, Flickr In February, I'll be co-teaching the " WeAreMedia Live " intensive two-day workshop in San Francisco from NTEN. The Social Media Strategy Map and Worksheet 1. But as adoption of social media becomes more "mainstreamed," homebase could be your blog or both. What else might you add or change?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

Mapping Strategy to Metrics, Benchmarking, and ROI. Are you impulse adopting tools? Attend NTEN's NTC Conference in April and attend the social media tracks. Think about what is most effective for your organization's goals, mission, and capacity. Learn to use the tools that help you measure success.

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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. A Blast from the Past Gavin has posted some really early photos of the founding meetings for Aspiration, NTEN, and the NSNT on flickr. Nonprofit Software (and hardware) Ryan at PicNet hacks Email to RSS for NTEN Affinity Groups !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

The panelists include Holly Ross, NTEN ; David Neff , American Cancer Society; Kari Dunn Saratovsky ; Case Foundation; Amy Sample Ward , Netsquared; and Joe Solomon. And the user-adoption numbers are ridiculously high. The Social Change Challenge will crowdsource innovative ideas from nonprofits to change the world.

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

The panelists include Holly Ross, NTEN ; David Neff , American Cancer Society; Kari Dunn Saratovsky ; Case Foundation; Amy Sample Ward , Netsquared; and Joe Solomon. And the user-adoption numbers are ridiculously high. The Social Change Challenge will crowdsource innovative ideas from nonprofits to change the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2012

I confess to being an early adopter – someone who overpaid for technology tools that didn’t work and still do that today. Master curator, Robin Good, is go to curator on curation tools. Robin recently shared his comprehensive map of content curation skills, dividing them into couple of key categories.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2012

Bonus: See an overview of our Local Impact Map and see how you can get it for your nonprofit. Your technology plan is a document that lays out the goals and objectives of adopting and implementing technology. Explore what you can build with Windows Azure! Delivering Services Through a Global Network. Lynn Van Housen. No PowerPoint.

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NTEN

JULY 1, 2009

The upside is that they will be more eager and capable adopters of the technology you give them. Is it OK to put client home address information into a public mapping website? As technology moves from the realm of the geek programmer into the hands of laymen, your staff are going to want to do more and more with it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 22, 2018

The conversation with Yeshi is “smart,” meaning that she asks and answers questions with a variety of images, maps, text, and videos. Understand the Adoption Trends: You don’t have to be an expert in artificial intelligence or know chatbot programming code, but you do need to understand what a chatbot is and at a high level how works.

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NTEN

MARCH 25, 2013

Each organization plays a unique role in the sector, contributing our own solutions to the complex problem of helping nonprofits adopt and use technology to create more social change. Seven organizations participated: 501cTECH, Idealware, Network for Good, NTEN, NPower, NPower PA, and TechSoup Global.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2009

Peter Campbell, IT Director at Earthjustice, dove deeper into IT performance and how to prioritize your goals through balanced scorecards, business process mapping, SWOT analyses, and technology planning. You can also listen to the audio ONLY by subscribing to the NTEN Podcast on iTunes. Subscribe to the NTEN Podcast.

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2009

Holly Ross, NTEN. Arguments for the adoption of open code in the nonprofit sector have generally run threefold: First, it's highly customizable, so you don't have to compromise that long list of requirements. We have here at NTEN. So, the old arguments for open source software adoption are dead to me. Open Source is Dead.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

.&# Ushahidi is an open source platform that facilitates crowdsourcing through the use of SMS/cellphones and online mapping. It has been used in disaster relief, for example, in Pakistan , and other scenarios from London Tube strike to election monitoring to mapping crime incidents Atlanta. (2) 2) Crowd Creation.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Jorge Luis Borges points out that a 1:1 scale map is useless. Daum Communication , a leading internet services provider in Korea offers a map service with a streetview option, much like Google Maps does in the States. But what’s the point? Aren’t we doing just that when we don’t filter to good from the mundane?

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

We lead off with Amy Sample Ward who is the executive director of NTEN , the big membership organization of nonprofit technology professionals. Beth Kanter won the NTEN Award in2007: Most Valuable Person in NpTech field. He got the NTEN Award IN 2011. Amy Sample Ward. She is one of our great online community organizers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

Holly Ross at NTEN writes about a new ring tone, " Why don't you just shut up? There are lots of alternative gift giving opportunities too, take for example Save the Children gift catalog that lets you and your children explore a map of the world and imagine how simple gifts make a difference.

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