NTEN

MARCH 26, 2010

Note: As we prepare for the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference , we wanted share a wee bit of the wisdom our speakers will be serving up, so as not to overwhelm you when you get to Atlanta. We're asking them all to share their answers to five very important questions. What's the most important trend in nonprofit technology for 2010?

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 7, 2009

Many of the questions we explore will likely also be applicable to other movements. Starting the Conversations: Here are some questions to consider: How does online discussion and networking connect with and support offline action? What technologies are both available & needed? Feeling brave? Rules for #4Change Chat.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Question 1 : asked about migrating a community from one tool to another, specifically from listservs to a website/forum. Question 2 : asked how to build a loop between on and offline engagement. If you have a topic or question you’d like to explore in an upcoming chat, feel free to let me know anytime!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2012

This year, John is working with them again and they’ve up the amount of resources. The application is simple, all you need to do is write a poem! All you have to do is submit a 4-8 line poem expressing the heart of your mission at www.communitytech.net (orgs must be US-based 501 c3s).

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NTEN

AUGUST 8, 2011

A while back, with the generous support of the Knight Foundation , a group of Nonprofit CTOs gathered in Miami to discuss the day-to-day challenges of nonprofit technology, share their success stories, and brainstorm solutions. We'll be posting highlights from this meeting of the minds on the NTEN blog.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 22, 2009

I wanted to use today to focus in on a question recently posed by my good friend Joe Solomon on Twitter : What are the nonprofit/orgs that are working 2 wire the green movement, like what @ netsquared does 4 nonprofits, @ sunfoundation for politics; which orgs are working to expose data, leverage soc media, connect the orgs together?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2010

At the same time, volunteer service organizations need to rethink how they work and what technology they use. The question is what can volunteer coordinators – those who are tasked with the work-a-day chores of volunteer engagement – do to help bring about this transformation? The Free-Agent/Fortress Dilemma in Volunteer Coordination.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Nonprofit consulting services might solve a specific challenge, like customizing and cleaning up your database , or serve as more of a long-term investment, like designing a complete technology plan for your nonprofit. Technology strategy and solution implementation. We specialize in: Nonprofit technology strategy development.

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NTEN

JUNE 12, 2009

M+R put together a handy guide to Twitter that both newbies and twits (ie, Twitter experts) can put to good use for nonprofit organizational applications. Michelle Murrain compartmentalized her social networking life -- and learned a thing or two that might apply for individuals and orgs.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 18, 2007

Org charts, like maps, aren't given the attention they should be, especially in large institutions. Org charts are not just about putting people in their place. And you don't have to be worth 7 figures to merit a networking application. I was captivated. They are the basis for a social network of professionals.

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See3

MARCH 13, 2008

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS: · Bachelor’s degree in communications, marketing, journalism, public relations, English, information management, information technology, and/or related field. APPLICATION DEADLINE: Review of applicant materials will begin immediately and will continue until finalist candidates have been identified.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JULY 13, 2008

They did this by creating a Cause and a Fan Page for the org, and by forming a relationship with an ecology oriented game on Facebook, (lil) Green Patch. Six months later the (lil) Green Patch application is one of the most popular on Facebook, with of 6 million users! Me - Can you explain the business model of the application?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

My question: Network for Good's recent Wired Fundraiser report talks about "superactivists" or the nonprofit equal of Seth Godin's Evangelists. Ben Greenberg from Physicians for Human Rights asked a couple of really great questions. So this leads me to a recent discussion thread on the NTEN discuss list the other day.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Web 2.0 Out intent was to put the light squarely on them with smart and articulate voices from the nonprofit sector (Peter Campbell and Zack Rosen as well as Mark Bogliani) asking them questions.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The search for good web conferencing August 17, 2007 I decided, perhaps rashly, that one way of exposing people to, and training people on, open source software, was by doing web conferencing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

Via Laura Quinn at Idealware comes a pointer to a research paper titled " Technology Motivators and Usage in Not-for-Profit Arts Organizations " that comes from the Systems Synthesis Project course at the H. " The 1cent thoughts on NPTech blog muses , "Is technology the step child of older organizations?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2007

Bev Traynor builds on the list here and reflects on how it isn't quite a yes or not question. I know I should do this, but here's a direct link to the chapter on technology tools. The 59 Smartest orgs online is a list of 59 organizations that make good use of the web2.0 Have an opinion on any of these topics?

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

First off, for 2010, there are some security questions you should ask yourself as trends emerge: Are robots attacking my servers? (Ro)bots Ro)bots (or spiders) are scripts or applications that search out information on the web. Many web-based applications and SaaS products are beginning to adopt [link] standards.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2007

How to do it is the open question. Some of these are quite nice: I really enjoy Christain Montoya's Social Tags application. I met only one representative of a non-profit who was there to explore the possibility of extending the presence of his org via Facebook.

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Care2

JULY 24, 2007

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) " "End Global Warming!,"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2007

Tools for VolCom Groups: Blogs, RSS, Tagging, Wikis and Beyond," I wanted point to a new (to me) UK nonprofit technology blog discovered via a comment to my post about technology stewards and also weave in some more notes on UK examples. I asked Miles this question: There's a lot of media attention being paid to "Web 2.0"

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Care2

AUGUST 7, 2007

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) " "End Global Warming!,"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2005

This week I wanted to get a bird's eye view of nonprofit blogging from a nonprofit technology assistance provider (people who work with nonprofits on technology/capacity building issues). As you look at the nonprofit technology landscape, what is your sense of where nonprofits are in terms of using blogs? Time is also a barrier.

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

So don’t be shy, ask questions. There’s a question box. We’d love to answer your questions. . And I’m going to leave time for questions, as Steven said. And you can always listen to the recording, follow up with any questions. A lot of people are saying this, more need for technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Rather than comparing Woolworth sit-ins to the much-hyped Twitter Revolution, finding the latter coming up wanting, and stopping there, Gladwell might have given some space in the New Yorker to dig a little deeper to find examples of folks using technology to organize in intriguing, successful ways. The examples are there, too.

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Cloud 4 Good

JANUARY 31, 2022

You can become compliant with the MFA requirement either by enabling and governing MFA directly in your Salesforce org or by requiring single sign-on (SSO) into your organization through an identity provider that requires a username and password, as well as an additional strong verification method like those outlined above.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2009

Technology planning in nonprofits is too often thought about in terms of how many computers we need and the IT staff to maintain them from the basement of the organization. But technology is critical to an organization's success: all staff depend on it to deliver programs, communicate the organization's mission, raise money, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2013

But both of the peer learning designs are for nonprofit practitioners who have fully embraced online networks and comfortable using them technology. The concept of having a peer from the community is called a “technology steward” in the book Digital Habitats, co-authored by Nancy White, John Smith, and Etienne Wenger. Conclusion.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Now, CRMs for nonprofits are the technological hubs that connect disparate functions and strategies into a single, unified platform. Nonprofit CRMs sit at the core of the modern nonprofit technology stack —which means this is a pretty long and in-depth article. Nonprofit CRMs have come a long way in the past 20 years.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

There were some terrific questions asked, and while I took a stab at the answers, hoping sharing the questions might inspire a few guest blog posts. Ustream provides a live streaming video window, an archive of the video, the ability for the audience to log into the chat room and ask questions and a social stream.

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NTEN

MAY 5, 2015

Presumably, a loan application process means that loans are given to hard-working people. So the question is how much of the increase is due to the fact that these hardworking go-getters would have increased their income on their own, and how much was directly due to the program? org blog a lot. Fascinating.

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Care2

OCTOBER 4, 2009

Converting Fresh Leads Into Donors&# and featured Heidi Hess of Children’s Defense Fund and Greg Zelder of the California State Parks Foundation , with Holly Ross of the Nonprofit Technology Enterprise Network (NTEN) moderating. Next: Heidi and Greg answer your follow-up questions. I want to do that for ours!

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Care2

MAY 27, 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)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

If you have questions about widgets or want to share your organization???s s experience (good and bad), the NTEN Affinity Groups , particularly Emerging Technology, Nonprofit Bloggers, or Nonprofit Webmasters, are good lists to connect with your peers on these topics. They are akin to plugins or extensions in desktop applications.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 3, 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) with a cost-per-acquisition of zero.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

However, with the seemingly never ending supply of tools, platforms, and applications at marketers’ disposal, it’s necessary to prioritize based on the needs and preferences of your target audience. Connections. When you truly understand your people, you’re apt to make better marketing decisions.

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