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Guest Post: Networking Tips for the 2011 NTC from a Former Newbie

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Yesenia Sotelo, Director of New Media, Jasculca Terman and Associates This will be Yesenia Sotelo's fifth NTC, but she was once a first-timer and is a self-designated introvert. Here, she shares some of her networking tips that will make anyone look like an NTC pro. Bonus tip: use your name badge as your business card holder.

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11NTC Tip of the Day: Connect to the Community

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The NTC is packed with opportunities for rubbing elbows with your best friend in the nonprofit technology space, and for making five new best friends at the same time! Here's a run down of some of the best ways to get connected in person this year: NTC Orientation - RSVP in myNTC! and handing out some very special awards.

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QR Codes: My Favorite SXSWi Find

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At SXSWi, every name badge has a QR Code printed on it with the individual's contact information. If you meet someone you like and have reader software installed on your phone, you can scan the badge, and add that info to your address book. I also think there's the potential for lots of fun with QR codes. Want to get ready now?

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NpTech Tag Summary: Voting Deadline at Netsquared Extended, NTC Pipe, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The NTEN's NTC and NPTech Pipe. We have the NPTech Meta Tag Feed (which aggregates about dozen feeds of NpTech tagged items and I'm still using for various reasons); Kikono.org (which uses an NpTech feed and digg like features) and now we have the two pipes from NTEN - the NTC pipe and the NpTech Pipe. More pointers to NTC posts here.

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Flying the Nerd Bird or How I Found Value in FourSquare

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For example, a museum could create a fun treasure hunt by having people check at specific galleries or works of art. SXSW and perhaps the NTC would be the only places where that would happen. . Harvard University did an experiment with having students use it to explore the campus.

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Twitter for Nonprofits: Waste of Time or Potentially Useful?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Over the past six months, when I've spotted a twitter badge on a nonprofit blogger's site or if they mentioned it, I checked it out again. Last week, I explored it a bit with Allan Benamer and Peter Gulka and it was fun, but still wondering how it might be of use to nonprofits. What is this ? It's very distracting.

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2014 NTC Report: The Wins, The Fails, The Ideas for 2015

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and debriefed a whole lot of the NTC. We also read through all of the NTC evaluations! We didn''t want to split up these post-NTC conversations so have sacrificed brevity in the hopes of completeness. , launched into planning and logistics for the inaugural Leading Change Summit (coming this September 3-6!),

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