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. It is a learning event to help you better understand how to manage technology. They Just Won't Listen to Reason (Chapter on Change Management with Dahna Goldstein.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2010

Here at NTEN, we're keenly interested in this question. We need a culture change. As a sector, we're woefully behind when it comes to evaluation skills. Though it's catching on, we have a long way to go, and we can't be expected to report on our effectiveness when we don't have the skills to do so.

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JULY 3, 2012

From NTEN's perspective, organizations would likely want to be somewhere between the 25th and 75th percentile range in staffing levels, meaning that you're in a "normal range" compared to other organizations in your budget size category. incidentally, the mode was also 1.0 -- the most frequently reported number).

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AUGUST 15, 2012

[Editor's note: The following is an excerpt from a feature article in the June 2012 issue of NTEN:Change , NTEN's quarterly journal for nonprofit leaders. I'm taking ten minutes every morning to practice some visual recording skills like drawing to create my "3 Most Important Things for Today List." By Beth Kanter, Beth's Blog.

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AUGUST 13, 2012

We note here, as in our report, that respondents to this survey don’t reflect the wider nonprofit sector but rather organizations who already have shown interest in improving their technology effectiveness by being part of the NTEN community or The NonProfit Times subscribers who opted to take this survey.)

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FEBRUARY 2, 2011

Too often, amateur accidental techies -- nonprofit staffers who have taught themselves technology skills -- find themselves in over their heads trying to develop databases, but forgetting to do business process modeling or change management.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Sign up for NTEN''s Workshop-Technology Champion Master Class in San Francisco on September 19! This intensive, in-person, nonprofit leadership workshop will highlight change management issues and methodologies to align your strategic plan with enterprise-wise technology initiatives and business processes development.

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APRIL 22, 2011

Read the complete issue of NTEN's new quarterly journal for nonprofit leaders by subscribing to the journal for free! ] Technologists constantly need to stay up to date on their skills and emerging trends or they will become obsolete. [Editor's note: The following first appeared in the March 2011 issue of NTEN:Change.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Sign up for NTEN''s Workshop-Technology Champion Master Class in San Francisco on September 19! This intensive, in-person, nonprofit leadership workshop will highlight change management issues and methodologies to align your strategic plan with enterprise-wise technology initiatives and business processes development.

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JULY 19, 2011

Read the complete issue of NTEN's new quarterly journal for nonprofit leaders by subscribing to the journal for free! ] Yet, critics seem unduly preoccupied with tools and/or the use of metrics like open and click rates and contrast that with proven skills of movement building and civil disobedience.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2011

The same holds true for lawyers, investment bankers, firemen, and doctors; their skills are not needed in day-to-day operations at the management level of a nonprofit. He is a frequent speaker on nonprofit tech issues at forums, including the Google Grants Conference, NTEN, U.N. During his 4.5

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JANUARY 14, 2013

[Editor's note: The following is from the December 2012 issue of NTEN:Change , NTEN's quarterly journal for nonprofit leaders. Everyone brings something unique to the table, whether it's content, tech skills or social media know-how. Read the complete issue on "Collaboration" when you subscribe to the journal for free! ]

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JANUARY 27, 2010

So how do you hone that kind of skill? Here are some strategic ways to position yourself well to lead a technology change, and inspire people to want to do the things you want to do. Tags: Change Management Leadership Newsletter NPTech NTEN. " You can't be a leader if no one will follow you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2009

As we discovered last week from looking at movement building , relationship building skills are really important. This past year alone she has been a presenter at NTEN's NTC (in San Francisco) , Blackbaud User Conference in Charleston , SxSw in Austin , the list goes on.

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JUNE 27, 2012

This skill is called “Transdisciplinarity,” or the ability to understand and translate concepts across multiple disciplines, another 21st century skill. One 21st century work place literacy is sense-making of information together and alone. A good curator can appreciate content that is not, at first glance, related to their subject.

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JANUARY 30, 2013

Furthermore, without the right skills or the right leadersihp for analyzing and applying the data, it's very likely organizations can make bad decisions based on erroneous or incomplete data.

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AUGUST 2, 2012

That new CRM, website, or donor management system is going to magically fix your organization’s inefficient processes, fidgety funders, and demotivated staff! Cloud, cloud, cloud! DON’T lavish any love on your nonprofit techie! They are way more comfortable in front of a glowing rectangle, and they just don’t like to talk to other humans.

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JUNE 21, 2011

NTEN's Amy Sample Ward shares from her experiences at the Games for Change Festival. You are in the business every day of figuring out how to have people engage, have fun, and build skills - change their behaviors through games. But before we got there, we talked a bit about the problem. So how do you do that?

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APRIL 24, 2012

There are skilled tradespeople in every country we serve, and local talent makes our model far more sustainable. (As There’s another piece that, while it is a cornerstone of our organization, complicates the picture even more: we hire local talent. We don’t fly expat plumbers around the world.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2011

To design a technology model that could address the spectrum of skill in the network would be a challenge. Lucky for us we didn't have to re-invent the wheel: Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission outlined a model and provided us with the foundation we needed to get the ball rolling.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Nonprofits face unique challenges that commercial enterprises often don't face: you have no IT staff, no IT budget, uneven levels of technical skills in staff, high turnover and volunteer staff, distributed teams with only the internet connecting them, no long term IT planning or vision, and project based funding models.

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JUNE 6, 2011

By Annaliese Hoehling, Publications Director, NTEN. The community manager has been around longer than you may think – and I'm not trying to be like Malcolm Gladwell by drawing (questionable) parallels to pre-Internet practices. Do you need a Communications Manager or a Community Manager for these new channels?

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FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Kaufman described eight traits of a successful technology leader: Functional business orientation and communication skills Political savvy. Show functional business orientation and communication skills Show colleagues that you can think like they do. The soft skills are often the hardest to acquire. Know your users.

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