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#NTCFail: When Things Don't Go as Planned (or Your Plan Stinks)

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NTCFail 2: Name Badges. This is the second year in a row that we were missing a bunch of name badges. It's kind of hard to know if you're missing 100 name badges out of 2,000, so we clearly need a new system. In addition, even when we have a name badge for you, sometimes you want to change the information.

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SXSW Interactive Scholarship Opportunities

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The scholarships are open to anyone using new media channels to tackle community problems –including nonprofit leaders, grassroots organizers, individual citizens and civic-minded entrepreneurs. Each of the five recipients will receive a complimentary SXSW Interactive badge for the 2012 SXSW Interactive Festival.

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NTEN Case Study in Listening: What's the NTC Worth?

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I've always been of the mind that people are going to talk about you anyway, so you might as well use the tools that let you take part in the conversation. In 2008 , the lowest SXSWi badge price was $325, just $24 less than our lowest price. . Tags: 09NTC NPTech NTEN twitter. And they will. How would you have responded?

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11NTC Tip of the Day: Connect to the Community

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What it's all about: Join your NTEN member colleagues for a special reception to start your 2011 NTC experience off right. We’ll be celebrating you, NTEN members – the most important people we know! – If you’re a member of NTEN, you’re invited! and handing out some very special awards. Affinity Groups - RSVP in myNTC!

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Who Is Your Mayor? Guest Post by Farra Trompeter, Big Duck

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

501 Tech NYC organizes monthly meetups in cities nationwide for NTEN members and other nonprofiteers who wanna chat about technology, online engagement strategy, social media and more. One of Foursquare’s first badges was the “ gym rat “–awarded to users who check into a gym at least 10 times in 30 days. say about you?

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NTC Community Call Recap

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They will be social networking sessions with like-minded people, with no formal agenda or takeaways. New to the NTC Ideas Partner new attendees with veteran attendees Should we identify new attendees on their name badges? Birds of a Feather sessions are taking the place of our old Affinity Group sessions.

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Case Study: Tools for Community Engagement

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By Amy Sample Ward, Membership Director, NTEN. According to the Twibbon profile for TMWL, 667 users added the badge to their pictures. They did not have a preference in mind for the redesign when it came to the programming language, just a clear understanding of what they wanted supporters to be able to do.