NTEN

APRIL 5, 2013

What if the executive director tweeted about the upcoming gala? Building community takes many forms and is done for many different reasons: to raise money, pass legislation, connect with like-minded people, have fun, learn new things. If the program staff posted Facebook photos of the successful food drive? and on and on.

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NTEN

APRIL 7, 2011

What ‘big idea’ should come to mind when people hear or see your name? Whether you are the executive director or social media strategist for your nonprofit, know that others will see you as a representative of your organization’s brand. Draft a personal positioning statement for yourself. Who are you are trying to reach?

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NTEN

AUGUST 13, 2012

With that in mind, we are pleased to see that nearly 15% of survey respondents considered themselves as Leading organizations, and only 5% indicated they were at the first level, Struggling. (We In this article, we're taking a closer look at what we mean by "Tech Adoption". What is Tech Adoption? "We

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NTEN

DECEMBER 15, 2011

Background As part of NTEN’s strategic planning in 2010, we identified a particular constituency in the nonprofit sector that our current programs weren’t directly serving: the non-technical leaders who make the strategic decisions, approve the budgets, and have the big picture in mind about the direction and work of their organizations.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Too many systems have been delivered over the years, to the underwhelming response, "Well, it's good, but that's not what I had in mind." Sometimes that vision is held by the executive director. IT is an ongoing process, and there needs to be some stability and longevity in the approach an organization takes to managing it.

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MAY 4, 2011

By Zeph Harben, Director of Application Architecture, VolunteerMatch Every day we encounter hundreds of decision points. The human mind, it turns out, is an extremely efficient manager of the chaos of life. Thankfully, most of them are quite small: Should I have a bagel or Wheaties for breakfast?

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FEBRUARY 7, 2011

My supervisor, the Director of Operations, had some ideas on what technology changes/improvements he wanted to see in the future. Remember, this was in 2006 and cloud computing was not on everyone's mind as it is today.) He wanted us to find a single sign on system that could tie all our systems together.

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