Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

NTEN and Jossey-Bass/Wiley is hosting the " Online NTC ," a 2-day online conference based on the book, Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission. The online conference is for the "Tech Responsible" individual within any nonprofit. It is a learning event to help you better understand how to manage technology. of TechSoup Global.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Yes, Labor Day is now long past (or so it already feels), but the three-day weekend never slowed down the nptech community! They managed to pump out reports and research, organize webinars and conferences, and even play around with the definition of volunteering. Data member news Member Round Up nptech'

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JUNE 11, 2010

As tech leaders, we are going to work tirelessly to get those tech commodities off of our plates an into the hands of the cloud, or a fantastic tech shop. If technology is going to help us meet our missions, we're going to have to measure its impact, just like we measure our financial investments.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2011

This is also a commonly held view of programmers, web developers, IT professionals, database administrators, and other tech staff in an organization. They demand an in-house tech team. Tech is often viewed as a money pit, an expense to avoid (until something goes wrong). This can be a tremendous asset at the management level.

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APRIL 22, 2011

Thank people for jobs well done that no one notices but that are important and impactful. As a manager, you are your own best retention and job satisfaction tool. The number one reason people leave companies is because their relationship with their manager is poor. Spend time building a relationship.

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JULY 13, 2012

Another benchmark we think is importmant for nonprofits to consider is the ratio of organizational staff to their tech-responsible staff. While we took a look at the number of tech staff benchmark in the first post in this series, I'd like to now turn to the org staff-per-tech staff benchmark.

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APRIL 24, 2012

We envision taking ProvingIt to an open-source platform, and ultimately offering it across the sector to those who share our desires: to track progress, to be honest about failure, to transform conversations with donors, and to measure impact not just once, but over long periods of time. We don’t have to pretend to be perfect.

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AUGUST 4, 2011

I'd really like to get into doing that kind of work again, only with nonprofits, but it seems like all the groups I meet only want people to deal with tech, not business. We all say that it's not about the technology, but really, we tend to get caught up in the tech, anyway. Installing a new server, sure, they want assistance.

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APRIL 4, 2011

And yes, this also applies to the grassroots: anyone who has a cause they feel passionately about and for which they'd like to make an impact.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2011

We are committed to changing beliefs like, "You are broken and need to be fixed," to "All people have the right to live in a community free of culturally constructed barriers." What Holly said in a recent tweet!)

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OCTOBER 14, 2013

In this issue of NTEN: Change, we take a holistic approach to looking at some of these internal processes, including trust building to demonstrate impact, making decisions with data, and prioritizing activities through evaluation. Determining the ‘Right’ Project , by Laura Dallas Burford, MA, PMP.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Once Shark Week was over, we tracked our aggregate impact with our social mention tracking system in Radian6 , and shared the impact with the Sharkinar participants. When we frame our work as competitive, we miss the chance to gently collaborate for a much bigger impact, like we facilitated during Shark Week.

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