Check out the full agenda , get the Millennial Donor Study report , and register today ! Mark your calendars for next month’s 2011 Millennial Donoar Summit and rejoice in the fact that you don’t have to book a flight or hotel! MORE

Then, at the 14NTC, I attended a session titled Progressive Enchantment: Crafting a Responsive Design presented by Daniel Ferro, Sean Powell, and Karin Tracy, where they actually had redesigned NTEN’s website as a case study for how responsive design could be used to modernize a very outdated website. case study Web Sites website design IT Staff MORE

Case Studies. Last week was the 2011 Nonprofit Technology Conference and not only did I have the pleasure of presenting a couple sessions, it was also my first NTC as a staffer, as I joined NTEN earlier this month. MORE

Grace Andrews. Co-Founder, Director of Business Development. GraphAlchemist. With so many shiny tools to choose from, how can your organization choose which is/are best for you? Here are some questions to get you started. When it comes to a term as broad as “tools,” understanding what an organization or individual’s goals are vital to identifying what to use. As a member of the tech community, I find that there are a tremendous amount of resources that people are not using in their toolkit. MORE

case study Web Sites website design Communications We at NTEN are finally working on a website overhaul and re-launch in earnest. MORE

Case Study Social LearningThis post is by Marci D. Thompson, Associate Director, Online Education, APIC. APIC is a professional association for infection preventionists (IPs) with more than 14,000 members. Their mission is to create a safer world through the prevention of infection. MORE

In the "Silicon Hills" of Austin, TX, work is afoot to close the gap of access to technology among the city's residents. This article originally appeared in the March issue of the NTEN: Change journal. MORE

This short and sweet B2B case study discussed by Sandy Carter of IBM shows us some numbers on how Premier , an alliance of 2500 community hospitals, leverages their online community. Case Study From the Trenches MORE

Three Case-Studies that document how three different nonprofits developed their social media policies. Has it been a year already since we launched NTEN's quarterly digital journal for nonprofit leaders? Indeed it has, and the latest issue could be our best ever. MORE

nptech Case Studies Crowdsourcing Nonprofit research"What if your organization’s culture encouraged you, and everyone who worked there, to embrace self-care without guilt? MORE

We’re a fan of case studies at Idealware, as they’re good ways to highlight both the lessons we’re trying to get across and the organizations doing so much good work in the world. In this case, we went to the U.S. Got an idea for a case study? MORE

Kimberlee Roth. Out-Word, LLC. NTEN, whose mission is to help members strategically use technology to make the world a better, just, and equitable place, didn't so much consciously move to the Cloud as come of age in it. When IT Director Karl Hedstrom joined NTEN in 2006, a few employees had been working remotely, thanks to the Cloud. Going forward we kept looking for those solutions because, with our size and capacity, the Cloud always managed to be the better option," Hedstrom said. MORE

Mark your calendars for next month's 2011 Millennial Donoar Summit and rejoice in the fact that you don't have to book a flight or hotel! MDS11 is "a virtual summit providing a day of speakers, thought leaders, and provocateurs challenging the traditional modes of fundraising and engagement." MORE

Nonprofits and libraries can use surveys to gather feedback, understand their communities, and deepen their impact. TechSoup recently completed a global cloud survey using FluidSurveys , and we wanted to share what we learned about creating surveys with FluidSurveys. MORE

Well the Case Foundation, one of the event partners, has just released a full report on the giving day: “Giving contests are becoming an increasingly common tool for cities and regions to increase donations to nonprofits. Case Study From the Trenches Humanize Open Community MORE

just run with it) where I’d like to tell the story of what I am doing around social media for Artomatic, as a living case study. Case Study Featured From the Trenches Implementation Nimble Nonprofit Open Community Risk and Social Media Social CRM and ROI MORE

Community-based fundraisers bring together members of your organization, local businesses, media, and residents in your community to support a worthy cause or in some cases, to support numerous causes. Case Study: The Highmark Walk for a Healthy Community. By Kari Ann Kiel, Event Marketing Consultant, DoJiggy. There are so many ways to raise money for your nonprofit or charitable cause. MORE

Case Study HumanizeJamie posted about this last week , and I think we’re both just at the beginning of a whole series of possible posts about the human attributes we see in this Netflix slide deck about their corporate culture. MORE

Check out our latest ERP case study on KSI today. MORE

In other cases, organizations produce statistics and indicators at the exclusion of "soft" data to convey a sense of business responsibility, pressured by the demand for nonprofit accountability to mirror for-profit financial statements. By Irene Kao, Project Manager, Tides. MORE

Case Study From the Trenches ImplementationThis post originally appeared on the Realtime Report. Author Tonia Ries kindly agreed to let me repost it here, ’cause it’s just that good. MORE

[Editor's note: The following is an excerpt of a case study in the March 2011 issue of NTEN:Change. Note: You can read the complete case study in the March Issue of NTEN:Change when you subscribe for free and access the archives. MORE

And, in case you were wondering, the transition finally did happen. Melissa Barber, Electronic Communications Specialist, Death with Dignity National Center My nonprofit accidental techie moment lasted about a year and a half. At a previous job, I suggested we move from using three Access databases and individual employees’ email programs and spreadsheets to a more robust, centralized, and informative cloud-based Constituent Relationship Management (CRM) system. MORE

Note: You can read the complete case study and the entire June Issue of NTEN:Change online for free. [Editor's note: The following is an excerpt from an article that first appeared in the June 2011 issue of NTEN:Change. Read the complete issue of NTEN's new quarterly journal for nonprofit leaders by subscribing to the journal for free! ] MORE

In most cases, it should be noted, the process would take longer. This overview is part of a larger case study on Epic Change's last campaign that we'll post later this summer. campaign case study Community community building justcoz Social Media technology tools ProgramBy Amy Sample Ward, Membership Director, NTEN. MORE

Defining Engagement One Year On: An Ongoing Case Study. Defining Engagement One Year On: A Case Study from WorkXO. Were you at #ASAE16 ? Joe Vallina and Natasha Bethea of the American Nurses Association joined me to share progress on our massive engagement project. MORE

Not yr same old social media NPO case study SLAM at #SMoP14 pic.twitter.com/j7Gp12hIRD. The panelists delivered their case studies and poems in three rounds, each with a sub-theme. Humberto Kam from the Monterrey Bay Aquarium and Cindy Johanson from Edutopia shared some case studies about storytelling and what inspires people to share your organization’s content. The final set of case studies discussed social media success and failure. MORE

The post The Difference Between One-Time and Lifelong Volunteers: A Short Case Study appeared first on Nonprofit Hub. Sure, most of the information about your volunteer opportunities is listed on your website. MORE

Living Case Studies: Social Media and Sustainable Agriculture. Living Case Study. I use a “Living Case Study&# technique — it is less formal that your traditional case study because it covers a work in progress and shares lessons learned as well as successes. MORE

The Marine Mammal Center (TMMC) is a marine mammal hospital and science research facility in Sausalito, CA. MORE

Written by Idealware's senior editor Chris Bernard, these three case studies illustrate the article " Multiple Constituent Groups, One Database? They’ve been using it since 2006 to track all constituent data, all financial data, case management, advocacy organization contacts, email lists and statistics, and more. “We Apricot serves as a “resident management system” she said—basically, a case management database. “It’s PublishDate: December 2011. Author: Chris Bernard. MORE

Here’s a Qriously case study, from Katy Gilbert – enjoy! case studies mobile data feedback information qriously questions research surveyQriously is a new application that puts questions you ask out to the world (or country, region, etc.) MORE

Many of us are solo or small law firm practitioners, so the ability to bounce ideas off colleagues, discuss a difficult case, or exchange law practice management tips is crucial. Case Study Featured From the Trenches Implementation Open Community Social Learning MORE

case study drupal Web Sites website design wordpress After thinking and talking about it for a long time, this year we at NTEN are finally beginning a website overhaul and re-launch in earnest. After all, the nonprofit association for people working at the intersections of tech and social change should have a website to match that mission and vision. Follow along as we chronicle the joys and occasional headaches. MORE

Her clients have included MazdaUSA, SRI International, DS Cases, Share Our Strength and Taco Bell. Related Posts How to Lead Your Way to a Social Organization [Case Study] Have you crossed the mobile threshold? Guest post by Amanda Sides. MORE

We have released a new case study! Drop by our Case Studies page on our main website and see how Occupations, Inc. in Middletown, New York, utilized the Client Payroll Manager from Vertex to solve their participant payroll and reporting … Continue reading → MORE

” Leadership modeling is important. When they launched their staff as champion strategy, they had to make the case that it was worth the investment of their time. There are no better champions for your organization’s communication’s strategy than your staff. MORE

We're excited to make available the 10 case studies to help you explore how others have made the Cloud transition, along with the in-depth article summarizing our findings. > > Read the in-depth article on our findings & check out the case studies! MORE

[Editor's note: The following is an excerpt from a case study that first appeared in the March 2011 issue of NTEN:Change. Read the entire case study in NTEN's new quarterly journal for nonprofit leaders by subscribing to the journal for free! ] By Chris Bernard, Idealware When [NTEN Member] Andy Wolber worked for NPower Michigan—first as a consultant, then later as executive director—the organization had a geographically spread-out board of 10-15 members. MORE

So paying Facebook in this manner does get you increased reach (an order of magnitude higher than before in our case), and that increased exposure seems to help increase engagement (though it’s about the same engagement that we earned for free before). MORE

While it's no secret that most people love spending their extra time elbow deep in their Internal Document Management Systems, tweaking things until everything is just right, I still do hear of the occasional fringe case where an organization is just trying to figure out the best way forward, as old policies and methods no longer match up with new systems and technologies. Karl Hedstrom. IT Director. NTEN. MORE

Setup a control case: In addition to dealing with too many variables, we also had no way of telling what would have happened had we not made those events free. During my 7 year tenure at NTEN, I''ve had the pleasure of looking at a lot of data, and figuring out ways to use that data in strategic ways to drive the organization and our community forward. MORE

The first of hopefully many case studies of the awesome work that ICF (the company we consult for) does every day. A Healthline study in 2011 found a significant difference between the top health searches on desktop and mobile. MORE