NTEN

JUNE 24, 2013

The third and latest episode of npVOICES has come out featuring Mark Rovner and Alia McKee of Sea Change Strategies, and NTEN''s new CEO, Amy Sample Ward. In his blog, John Haydon discusses Six Ways to Influence Donors with Brain Science , pulling in findings from studies to help you boost your fundraising results.

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NTEN

JULY 2, 2010

(Note: This is a weekly round-up of NTEN members doing and sharing their nptech awesome. Tag your own news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome online, or contact Annaliese with your updates.) . nonprofits, and we're happy to see NTEN members. Members are in bold. Who's your Mayor?

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NTEN

JUNE 13, 2012

Thanks to a scholarship from NTEN, I was given the opportunity to fly to Sydney to attend the ConnectingUp! I spoke with him afterwards to pick his brain on how he got involved with such an ambitious global project. Thank you once again to NTEN for providing me with this incredible professional development opportunity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2022

Rituals can also be used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals capitalize on our brains’ ability to direct our behavior on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted or preoccupied with other things. (In This year we hiked by the Pacific Ocean in Big Sur. Pictured above).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

There are also physical theories like brain-based learning and neuroscience. I came across a brain scan by Dr. Chuck Hillman from University of Illinois Neurocognitive Kinesiology Laboratory. The sitting brain is really disengaged. People can’t be as focused on content when they been sitting longer than 20 minutes.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 20, 2009

He and I have had terrific idea swaps and brainstorms and I can only imagine the conversations he will spark in person at NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology Conference. He received a NTEN scholarship to cover his registration cost but that’s it—he still needs to get there. When is the NTEN Conference? So here I am.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2022

Rituals can also be used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals capitalize on our brains’ ability to direct our behavior on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted or preoccupied with other things. (In This year we hiked by the Pacific Ocean in Big Sur. Pictured above).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2023

Rituals can also be used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals capitalize on our brains’ ability to direct our behavior on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted or preoccupied with other things. (In I finished my last board meeting in early 2022.

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NTEN

MARCH 4, 2010

Session: Persuasion for Techies: How to Win Your Supporter's Left Brain, Right Brain and Heart with Behavioral Economics. We're asking them all to share their answers to five very important questions. Speaker: Katya Andresen, Network for Good. What's the most important trend in nonprofit technology for 2010?

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

Questions ask your brain to mine your experience and expertise to come up with answers. nptech NTC nten training' What are some ways you can use questions to improve your technology trainings? You become aware of what your thoughts and understandings are about the topic. You connect any new knowledge to that which you already know.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2007

I'm working on the second screencast of a series, sponsored by NTEN and SalesForce.Com Foundation. Anyway, I had a chance to pick the brain of Rob Jordan, Idealist Consulting on the phone. Just so happens he's doing an NTEN Webinar tommorrow and it probably isn't too late to sign up. The first one is here ). Leave comments).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2020

Rituals can also be used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals capitalize on our brains’ ability to direct our behavior on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted or preoccupied with other things. This year we hiked by Pacific Ocean near Moss Bay.(Pictured Pictured above).

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NTEN

MARCH 16, 2009

Fellow NTEN members Green America (formerly Coop America) helped guide Peter to a wind-powered provider. Maddie Grant and Lindy Dreyer host a weekly NTEN Office Hour they call "NTEN Water Cooler Chat", every Thursday at 3pm ET. Tags: NPTech community buzz online fundraising nten members.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

John Kenyon and I wrote guest posts on the NTEN blog that will give you a flavor of what the session is about. This useful handbook summarizes and explains the brain science of how people learn and provides easy to use frameworks to help you design and deliver training where people learn. The Accelerated Learning Handbook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2016

I recently submitted a proposal for NTEN’s 2017 Nonprofit Technology Conference with colleagues Cindy Leonard, John Kenyon and Jeanne Allen called “ Supercharge Your Technology Training ,” so please take a minute to vote for it. . People can’t be as focused on content when they been sitting longer than 20 minutes.

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NTEN

APRIL 2, 2014

The chance to learn from and interact with dynamic and engaging faculty members, including Steve Heye of The Cara Program , Cheryl Contee of Fission Strategy , and Amy Sample Ward of NTEN Weekly classes and a private online group where you can build your community of fellow nonprofiteers leveraging technology to create positive change An intensive (..)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2013

To provide best practices for taming the digital jungle that assaults our brains everyday at work. The Unantipcated Benefits of Content Curation – article in NTEN Journal and other resources. To assess and reflect on how we use information effectively to make decisions or own patterns of distraction online. Additional Resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

The research indicates that the human brain, on average, has the capacity to pay attention for about 10-12 minutes within an hour. Last week, I was an instructor for NTEN’s Technology Leadership Academy for a session on Nonprofit Technology ROI Methods. It was delivered in two sessions.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 3, 2011

I look forward to the NTEN NTC (Nonprofit Technology Network's conference) every year. It's in Washington, DC March 17-19, although I'll be arriving in DC on the 16th for an NTEN Board Meeting. In fact, this year we have NTEN Organization membership so there will be four of us at the conference. I love it.

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NTEN

JULY 22, 2010

Photo: johncabrerea@att.net I've been crafting the "official" NTEN Social Media Strategy. Even though it turns out that NTEN's strategy isn't much different from our instincts, it's still important for us to have clear objectives and tactics for reaching our objectives. What makes it official? It has its own Google Doc.)

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NTEN

APRIL 15, 2014

Brain Traffic. Kristina Halvorson. Mobile is simply one more way to connect to your audiences through content. Without powerful, useful, usable content, channels don’t matter. Mobile doesn’t matter. You have to get your content right, and that requires content strategy. Mobile first!”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

And, if you are attending NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology in March, join me, John Kenyon, Andrea Barry, and Cindy Leonard for a session on designing effective technology training. When I design instruction, I want to make sure that learning activities use four different kinds of activities that help the brain learn rapidly.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 3, 2011

I look forward to the NTEN NTC (Nonprofit Technology Network's conference) every year. It's in Washington, DC March 17-19, although I'll be arriving in DC on the 16th for an NTEN Board Meeting. In fact, this year we have NTEN Organization membership so there will be four of us at the conference. I love it.

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Care2

DECEMBER 5, 2011

According to a study by Blackbaud , NTEN and Common Knowledge, over 92% of nonprofit organizations have a presence on at least one social networking site, but most raise very little money through their social activity. Every person I talk to seems to have social media on the brain. 2) Lack of staffing. 3) Lack of focus.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

NTEN Community Member Jason Shim recommends taking notes, and allocate some post-conference time to follow up on all the resources and topics you learned about to start applying these to your work. Make sure to bring your brain power to compete in Geek Bingo, a helicopter obstacle course, karaoke, and dodgeball! Let the games begin!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2019

Last week I presented a session at the Nonprofit Technology Conference called “ Activating A Culture of Resilience for Sustainable Impact ,” with fellow NTEN board members, Ananda Leeke & Meico Whitlock as well as Carrie Rice. We each tackled a different aspect of resilience.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Welcome to the 2nd week of 2009 NTEN Member Appreciation Month ! There are a couple of treats for NTEN members this week that I hope you can take advantage of: > Ask the Expert with Seth Godin. Join an online chat and conference call with Seth Godin, Beth Kanter, and NTEN's Executive Director, Holly Ross, this Thursday, November 12.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 30, 2009

In the spirit of fun and Halloween -- and because we're NTEN -- we, with a little help from our terrific community, have zombified 12 of the winning taglines: "Big Sky. So, as a bonus, here are two more: "Brains: they're what's for dinner." " "Brains: the other white matter." Big Graveyard."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2019

Rituals can also be used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals capitalize on our brains’ ability to direct our behavior on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted or preoccupied with other things. Rituals have been performed for centuries and are an important part of human history.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2011

Donate Tweets and Facebook posts to NTEN and use it to fund local 501 C-3 Clubs and local gatherings around the country. Holly recognized some “heros&# in the community who have done that. It has to be with a split of our brain. There are two parts of our brain, the rational and the emotional.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

Using the internet and social media as a vehicle to tell stories is an approachable, inexpensive, and effective way to engage your audience (Check out NTEN's social media and storytelling web seminars series for the juicy details.) KRS1 was the brains behind Boogie Down Productions, and he was a master storyteller.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 3, 2011

Excited that Issue Two of the NTEN: Change (A Quarterly Journal for Nonprofit Leaders ) is out. Happy to do shout outs for two creative wonder women's creative classes: Jennifer Lee's Right Brain Business Plan e-Course is coming up June 13-August 5. Loved Jennifer Louden's post, Bucket List Got You Down? Try a Thimble List.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

But it is always a good exercise to make your brain think in a different way. Last year at this time, I was writing the chapter on ROI in the soon to be published book from NTEN called " Managing Your Mission." In researching the ROI Chapter of the NTEN book, I intervewed some staff members from Legal Services community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2016

Adults tend to interpret information received in a training based on existing knowledge in their brains and then integrate it with previous experiences. This post was originally published on the NTEN Blog. We used a Harry Potter theme to give the session a fun feel. We began the session by polling the audience on training experiences.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 5, 2009

As I wrote this post on the flight back from my third NTEN Conference I know I felt similar to many of the other 1,600 “NPTechies” (Nonprofit Techies) who are leaving San Francisco. So, allow me this chance to glow in the softer side of nonprofit technology and share some of my favorite moments of the 2009 NTEN Conference.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

Regular readers of this space will know there's a growing consensus that technology is physically changing the ways our brains work. Tags: Newsletter NPTech NTEN Things We Like. We think they're getting ahead of themselves. Fortunately, there's an easy way to reboot: get outside. Here's a map to help you find your way.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

It was great to pick Amy's brain and learn about the basics of social media. We also invite you to join us for the remaining webinars in the NTEN and TechSoup Global Social Media & Storytelling Webinar Series : Podcasting (1/28/2009, 11am PT) Presented by: Corey Pudhorodsky. social media.

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