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NTEN Visits Free Geek

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Last week, during the quarterly staff retreat, NTEN staff toured Free Geek. Several NTEN staff have been long-time supporters, and NTEN has always donated its old electronics to Free Geek. Anyone can volunteer and learn how to build computers at Free Geekā€”and it shows in the diversity of their volunteer base.

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NTEN Member Buzz Round-Up: May 24

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(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.) Tags: community buzz nonprofit technology NTEN. Members are in bold. Beth's new blog! (I

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Good Curation VS Bad Curation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

What is good curation versus bad curation? The image is a remix of a presentation entitled ” Link Building by Imitation ” and authored by link building expert Ross Hudgens — and explains the skill set pretty well. ” This is the topic of my feature article the NTEN Change journal for June, 2012.

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Start 2017 by Building Your Tech Skills and Community

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The top three technology challenges for respondents are building websites, managing data, and fundraising. This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN's Tech Clubs , and HandsOn Tech. IMAGE ATTRIBUTION GUIDELINES Image Name: Author / License. Wednesday, January 4, 2017.

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When Should You Use an Existing Tool/Service and When Should You Build Your Own?

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You can likely find a SaaS (Software as a Service) solution to sign up for, a license to purchase, or open source solution to download all that offer complete working solutions to use "out of the box" to address your need. Integration & APIs Leadership'

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The Community is the Curriculum: NTEN's Social Media and Nonprofits Project - Come Join the Fun!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Over the next six months, I will have the pleasure of working with NTEN and Holly Ross on a new community-driven funded by the Surdna Foundation. My role is to help build the community while curating the curriculum/content. We'll be taking DIY approach, remixing and/or pointing as much as possible.

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NTEN Project Name Change: We Need Your Feedback

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If you've been reading this blog, you know that last week I started to work with NTEN on a social media and nonprofits curriculum development. Yesterday, Holly Ross, NTEN Executive Director, posted this discussion thread on the wik i: We've hit a snag in the road, and we need your help to get past it. NTEN Tech Handbook.

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