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OCTOBER 14, 2010

Compelling content will get the attention of the public -- and the public will be able to access whatever content they want on whichever screen they want. Will the static brochure website get much attention in this new world? If you can, cut longer video into shorter clips to account for online attention spans. Not so much.

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JULY 13, 2011

By Jonathan Benton, Senior Consultant, and Steve Peretz, Senior Analyst, M+R Strategic Services. The 2011 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study is a joint project of M+R Strategic Services and the Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN). Jonathan Benton Senior Consultant, M+R Strategic Services jbenton@mrss.com. QUESTIONS, COMMENTS?

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

I would contend micromanaging Boards are doing so because their attention and work have not been focused. She has more than 20 years of experience in fundraising and nonprofit consulting and serves as a strategic consultant to Ketchum and Pursuant Agency clients. Tags: NPTech NTEN Fundraising.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Read the complete issue of NTEN's new quarterly journal for nonprofit leaders by subscribing to the journal for free! ] I also don’t have the budget to bring in a consultant or vendor to solve every non-program problem. Put your limited resources and attention where it matters: up front.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Rob Jordan, Idealist Consulting. Idealist Consulting specializes in moving and supporting organizations that are interested in "getting into the cloud" and with over 180 clients we have a good idea of what it takes to get there. Start your review process with objective material from sources like NTEN, Idealware, and TechSoup.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 1, 2007

May 1, 2007 Jon Stahl quotes a comment by Ethan Zuckerman about “shiny&# – the over attention to cool and groovy web 2.0 Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Too much “shiny&# ? functionality. Not always, but often.)

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Rob Jordan, Idealist Consulting. Idealist Consulting specializes in moving and supporting organizations that are interested in "getting into the cloud" and with over 180 clients we have a good idea of what it takes to get there. Start your review process with objective material from sources like NTEN, Idealware, and TechSoup.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 7, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Microsoft Fails to get ISO fast-track for OOXML September 7, 2007 For those of you that pay attention to open standards, this is old(ish) news. I’ll keep you posted. {

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2012

One of the case studies I shared was about NTEN’s recent social fundraiser to raise scholarship money for NTC conference attendance. They set up a c ommunity champions campaign on Razoo and asked their champions to commit to raising $500 each and that the money would be matched by the NTEN board. Thank you not the last touch.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 6, 2009

It's this dillema that Nancy Schwartz , consultant and blogger at Getting Attention , will take on at her 2009 NTC session, The Open Source Brand in the Age of Being Everywhere. I talked to Nancy about that session -- and buffalo -- earlier this week: Tags: NPTech branding Communications NTEN web2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 11, 2007

I really do hope that the CIOs of the world pay attention. { I really do hope that the CIOs of the world pay attention. { It’s not a strategic technology to watch, it’s old news. It is nice to see that “Green IT &# tops Gartner’s list.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

All of us here at NTEN and in the greater nonprofit technology community were deeply saddened to hear of the sudden and tragic loss of Dan Scharfman, a long-time prominent member of the nonprofit technology community. His loss will be greatly missed by all those who have known him and benefitted from his work.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

It includes a summary comparison matrix for a quick reference, detailed product reviews, plus a directory of consultants that can help nonprofits select and/or implement solutions. -- so you can be assured that it is not light on the details. Looking at the comparison matrix at the front of the report (p.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Speaking too soon April 15, 2007 I’ve been doing a lot of thinking since I wrote my post, a few weeks ago , saying I was done with technology consulting. But then, I had something of an epiphany.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

Once you've got a handle on the search process, peruse the listings on Idealist.org , OpportunityKnocks , or NTEN's aggregated job board , which focuses on NPTech. It can be instructive to consult the past, as well. Apparently, meeting the needs of Generation Y staffers requires special attention.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 24, 2008

Here is yet another amazing free and open source tool getting a lot of good attention. (Not being much of a capitalist, I don’t really know what “series B&# funding means, but I’m imagining it’s a very good thing.) Anyway, WordPress is a blogging tool (in fact, the one that runs this blog.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

Nancy Schwartz invited me to submit a piece for next week's Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants theme on "Using Social Networking Tools." Too other must-read blogs are Getting Attention by Nancy Schwartz and Spare Change by Nedra Weinrich.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 6, 2007

I think that it is certainly possible to disseminate some guidelines (that some people will pay attention to) for the use of the nptech tag that could increase the signal/noise ratio. Technorati Tags: nptech , tagging , folksonomies { 1 trackback } Beths Blog 01.08.07 at 5:46 pm { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Beth 01.08.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 24, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Vendorspeak August 24, 2007 One of the things I’ve noticed recently is that my blog is getting the attention of software vendors. I guess that’s a good thing. Maybe it means I have “arrived&#.

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Judi Sohn

APRIL 14, 2010

I quit because I prefer to concentrate my professional attention in the nonprofit world. I am a proud member of NTEN , the trade association so-to-speak of nonprofit techies. My husband is a strategic services consultant for a software company. once which was a trip. My name is even on the cover. Fantastic organization.

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Judi Sohn

APRIL 14, 2010

I quit because I prefer to concentrate my professional attention in the nonprofit world. I am a proud member of NTEN , the trade association so-to-speak of nonprofit techies. My husband is a strategic services consultant for a software company. once which was a trip. My name is even on the cover. Fantastic organization.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 24, 2008

The best part of working at NTEN is you: the great people in our community. Please join me in welcoming Rusty, Tom, Steve, and Nancy to the NTEN Board! . Before GetActive, Tom worked in the nonprofit sector at the Environmental Defense Fund and as a consultant with Accenture. I love working with really smart and talented people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2007

" There some a thread of comments, from nonprofits, consultants, bloggers, and vendors. Katrin Verclas from NTEN points I Love Mountains , a campaign by Appalachian Voices using Google Earth and You Tube to vividly showcase the environmental degradation caused by mountaintop mining.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

By Lindsay Bealko, Principal, Toolkit Consulting. Don't get me wrong – I listened to what he was saying, but I also paid attention to how he was saying it, to what he wasn't saying, and to what was happening around me. I've encouraged the nonprofits I've trained or consulted with over the years to ask these same questions.

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NTEN

JULY 11, 2011

Web Consultant and Dan Mouyard, Sr. Pay particular attention to dynamic lookup fields, particularly when utilizing a constituent database. By Stuart Holland, Sr. Web Developer, TerpSys. In an ever-changing world of social media and web collaboration, tools for user interaction and engagement are becoming increasingly prevalent.

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NTEN

JUNE 24, 2010

Marissa Goldsmith, Beaconfire Consulting. The attention span of Californians vs. New Yorkers? Tags: Data marissa goldsmith Newsletter NPTech NTEN Communications. I love details. I could write a three-page specification for an "Email this page" button. Yes, I do still have Lynx on my computer). What do you see there?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

To put it a different way, the sharecroppers operate happily in an attention economy while their overseers operate happily in a cash economy. In this view, the attention economy does not operate separately from the cash economy; it’s simply a means of creating cheap inputs for the cash economy. .

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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. is senior consultant for Common Knowledge and covers the sustainable food community. Nancy Schwartz , author of the popular Getting Attention Blog, is known for her sure fire marketing tips. Holly Ross. Megan Keane blogs at TechSoup community site.

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NTEN

APRIL 29, 2011

Sure, the email was just a pitch for one of their upcoming events, but I can't help but think of that subject line as a battle cry – a drop-your-mobile-phone-and-pay-attention type of battle cry. Flickr photo: pasukaru76 "Now is the Time for IT Leaders to Re-imagine IT" That was the subject line of an email I received from Gartner recently.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2011

We have received an enormous amount of media attention for our biggest games, and they have reached millions of people who may never have considered animal rights before. For us, the key to success is creating a game that is fun so that people will want to play yet learn something about animals in the process. Want to hear more from Joel?

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2015

If we want to get our story out there in a form that will get attention, videos are the ticket. Amy Sample Ward, NTEN's fearless leader, has a different view. Paul Lamb of Man on a Mission Consulting convened a great discussion in 2006 on Skoll World Forum on the state of nonprofits and NGOs in 2016. This past year, U.S.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

I’m not sure I quite understand the fear, but it’s something to pay attention to. Watching the collaboration of people across time zones developing these proposals has really been inspiring to me. But peer production also scares people silly. The middle way isn’t splitting the difference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

The Getting Attention Blog hosted a Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants on the topic of Professional Development for nonprofit marketers. You have to be an NTEN member to participate and you have to be the first one to email Gavin.) " If you have project that you've been holding in your back pocket, consider adding it!

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JULY 12, 2009

According to the “ eNonprofit Benchmarks Study ” done by NTEN (shout out to Holly Ross ) email is still the “killer app” that reaches the most people. Post Quality Score - One of the most important new metrics to pay attention to is your post quality score. Why is this important? Open rates and click-throughs are holding steady.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2009

As Valera Maltoni wrote in her post about ten tips for building movements, “ make advocates feel like rock stars - give people your attention. This past year alone she has been a presenter at NTEN's NTC (in San Francisco) , Blackbaud User Conference in Charleston , SxSw in Austin , the list goes on.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology NTC Summary, and Nonprofit Technology Consulting 2.0 And it’s making me think a lot about what I’m going to start calling “Nonprofit Technology Consulting 2.0″

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

I’d argue that PostgreSQL is a better choice, but for most nptech applications, it doesn’t matter – what matters is what your tech/consultant knows, and that’s much more likely to be MySQL. The others are most likely of interest to pretty small niche groups, for specific kinds of projects. at 6:42 am Hi Michelle,?

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