Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 2, 2008

And I know there are plenty of folks out there who know the field really well at 50 ft, and can step in with the best advice. As a 10,000 footer, NTEN’s new Donor Management System Survey is of keen interest. There is, of necessity, a lot of overlap betwen CRM systems and Donor Management Systems.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Then, since you know some things about running, you might offer some training advice, nutrition ideas, or cool clothes to wear. We provide advice, training, support, or a tool to help. Of course I'm oversimplifying things like culture change (and so many other elements), but can read the NTEN book for those ideas.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 3, 2017

This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN's Tech Clubs , and HandsOn Tech. Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects. Victoria, British Columbia: Social Media Surgery: Hands-on Advice and Help. Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 2, 2008

And I know there are plenty of folks out there who know the field really well at 50 ft, and can step in with the best advice. As a 10,000 footer, NTEN’s new Donor Management System Survey is of keen interest. There is, of necessity, a lot of overlap betwen CRM systems and Donor Management Systems.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

" 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. My ratio is 2.4, so I'm in the low end of conversationalist.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 1, 2016

This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN's Tech Clubs , and HandsOn Tech. Victoria, British Columbia: Social Media Surgery: Hands-on Advice and Help. Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects. Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN's Tech Clubs , and HandsOn Tech. Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects. Victoria, British Columbia: Social Media Surgery: Hands-on Advice and Help. Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 15, 2007

Almost a year ago, NTEN hosted a field wide discussion about the need for nonprofit tech vendors, particularly CRM systems for online fundraising, to offer open APIs. (A Judi finishes her analysis with the big picture, noting the downside is cost: Think of all the tools out there with open APIs that we???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Do a regular task analysis of your social media work flow looking for redundant actions or where you've simply lapsed into automatic pilot or bad habits. Attend NTEN's NTC Conference in April and attend the social media tracks. For example, are you bookmarking everything you come across into del.icio.us Use Time Management Techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

I've gotten a lot of great advice about how to get started and I will share it as I plan to blog what I learn about taking this blog to the next level. Social Media Audience Research and Social Network Analysis: I've been tracking social media research snippets for a while, but not in a very well organized way. score out of 5.0).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2009

is the executive director of NTEN and expert in everything nonprofit tech. Laura Quinn is the founder of Idealware, which offers a consumer reports like analysis and comparison of nonprofit software. Rebecca Leaman writes for the Wild Apricot Blog and offers strategy advice for small nonprofits. Holly Ross. Jordan Viator.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN's Tech Clubs , and HandsOn Tech. Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects. Victoria, British Columbia: Social Media Surgery: Hands-on Advice and Help. Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects.

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Tech Soup

MAY 9, 2016

This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN's Tech Clubs , and HandsOn Tech. Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects. Washington, DC: May NTEN Happy Hour: Google Grant + Google Analytics = Better Results, Nonprofit Grant for Free Advertising.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2009

I also contributed a chapter on the topic to NTEN's Managing Your Technology To Meet Your Mission due out by Wiley I covered the building blocks of a classic ROI process, but translated to a nonprofit context. Note that qualitative data is important - you need both to do an ROI analysis and to communicate the results.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

In April at our NTC conference panel, we'll dig in and discuss some strategies, advice, and real examples from groups that have had success. At the heart of most issue-focused policy and research is data analysis. Connect the dots from raw source to visualization to analysis. Get your data out of your reports.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

September 17, 2007 There is an interesting discussion happening between Holly Ross, soon to be ED of NTEN, and Allan Benamer , about web statistics, and whether or not nonprofits should be “transparent&# and publish their web statistics. And, he thinks that NTEN should be responsive to him, as a member, in asking to publish web stats.

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

Balance ease of reporting and analysis with campaign effectiveness; sometimes getting the answers all in one place merits a minor reduction in results. . Tags: jeff patrick Newsletter NPTech NTEN Social Media Web Sites Communications. Long before Facebook, there was Geocities, which failed.

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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. Beaconfire Consultants has an analysis of nonprofit apps on Facebook. DIA Blog has some great advice about HTML email testing. More buzz here. And don't forget, if you're going to adopt Web2.0

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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. There was also a webinar presentation of the results. If not the latter, chances are the effort won't be as successful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2007

I'm working on another screencast (sponsored by NTEN and SalesForce ) about the SalesForce/Google Ad Words Integration. What advice would you give to someone who is developing their keyword advertising campaign with Google Ad Words? What are your tips and advice? Self SEO Boris Mordkovich's Keyword Advice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

Do a regular task analysis of your social media work flow looking for redundant actions or where you've simply lapsed into automatic pilot or bad habits. Attend NTEN's NTC Conference in April and attend the social media tracks. For example, are you bookmarking everything you come across into del.icio.us Use Time Management Techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

" Allan also offers an analysis of the nonprofit micro-philanthropy applications, but says it is too early to speculate where things will be in the next 21 days or next few months. Charlene Li has an analysis of the impact. But what if your organization is just getting started, what is the advice? What is Openness?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

A key point about how difficult it is for most non-profits to shift from message delivery to conversation and advice about being patience. Web Analytics, Statistics, and Social Networking Analysis The Net2ThinkTank: What is The Return On Investment Of The Social Web For Nonprofits? " Nonprofits and Web2.0 mean for you?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

And the resulting graph is the analysis of 1200 students. If appropriate, an networking activity that encourages people to interact with people they don’t know. NTEN has used this at its conference, trading stickers with other attendees and once you get a complete set, you can enter your card in a raffle.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Michaela Hackner and I recently hosted a pair of NTEN webinars titled "How to Become a Facebook Rockstar." For deeper analysis and improved understanding of what Facebook is tracking, click the "Export Data" link at the top of the Insights page. We try to follow our own advice in our work. click to enlarge).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

The State of Nonprofit Data report was released this week (hat tip to Ted Fickes ). Idealware and NTEN prepared the report based on a survey in April 2012 with nearly 400 nonprofit organizations about how they manage and use data. The report found that nonprofits are either doing a lot with their metrics or not much at all.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Don’t wait to collect a year’s worth of data in a week. Finally, avoid getting into data collection and analysis ruts – and evaluate your approach. KD Paine offers a great framework for matching tools with data collection and analysis tasks. Content Analysis Tools: Radian 6 and Netvibes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Now that we’ve had a few days to let the dust settle from the Komen-Planned Parenthood firestorm, it is time to think about takeaways for other nonprofits. Deanna Zandt presents an analysis of what made this particular pr crisis different from others and the teachable moments that are useful other nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

I've been doing this for ten years as part of the annual NTEN Day of Service for the NTC. NTEN has two fantastic events this month! NTEN has two fantastic events this month! The conference will showcase NTEN's new book about mission-driven technology. Follow his blog for expert Ning advice. Registration here.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 9, 2013

novices are heading to Minneapolis later this week for the 2013 Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC), hosted by our friends at NTEN. We also discuss how to do a tool analysis and pick the. Event cloud computing nonprofits community NTEN NTC #13ntc' It's that time of year again! Nonprofit technologists, mavens, and.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Our friends at NTEN give out NTENny Awards every year to recognize people making a significant contribution to the nonprofit tech community; once again, close to half of the winners were affiliated with NetSquared and our Tech4Good meetups. Please join NTEN (and me!) Homestead, Pennsylvania: Bagels & Bytes Holiday Party.

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

Karl Hedstrom , NTEN. Every year at NTEN's annual Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC), one of our major goals is to collect enough feedback from you, the attendees, to make our future conferences even better. This is where first-time NTC attendees can ask questions, and experienced vets can dish out advice.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

But since I’ve been a consultant for over a decade and may have lost touch with the real world, I asked several friends who have moved up the ladder of technical leadership what advice they would offer. Get good at cost/benefit analysis and measuring ROI. At the end of the day, you have to "show them the money." Don't fudge your costs.

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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. So, if I want to increase my conversation rate, I'll have to look at those posts with the lens of Kaushik's advice above and go back and re-read every single word Amy Gahran has written on the topic.

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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. And while surveys, focus groups and other services can give you an analysis of what your current audience is doing online, direct observation is works best.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2008

Starting with the new(ish) generation of interactive websites and blogs, we can observe how mainstream and alternative organizations serve up news, critical analysis, community building and civic engagement. There are many great sources on this topic -- many of whom present with and blog for NTEN and TechSoup. Tools you can Use.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 5, 2016

Perhaps nonprofits have listened to my advice over the years to time their email campaigns when the most giving happens. Subject Line Analysis. A Community That Gives: NTEN Member News. Emails by Hour. 32% of all fundraising emails were received between 9am ET and 1pm ET during the month of December 2015. Email Frequency.

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