Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 20, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology News from NTC ‘08 March 20, 2008 I’ve been having a great time here at NTC – running into lots of folks I’m happy to see again, and meet, learning about new things, being involved.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

Save $100: Register for the 2012 NTC by February 17 >> We're serious about our mission: helping you use technology effectively to meet your mission. The NTC is one of the primary ways we do that. Charlotta "Lottie" Beavers, ICT Consultant. I honestly can't imagine how I'd do my job without you. Simone Parrish, InnoNet.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 6, 2012

Angela Yu, Changed by Design Celebration and exposure of designers' ideas for solving the world's problems. Mike Berkowitz, Third Plateau • Social Impact Strategies Third Plateau is a full-service philanthropic advisory and nonprofit consulting firm. Check out Mike's guest post about NTC on the Rally blog.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Dahna Goldstein Bev Magda I used to do technology consulting with nonprofits, and I found that the work was about 10% technology, 90% psychology. Of course, knowing that isn't enough: Anyone who's engaged in implementing technology projects at nonprofits needs a whole slew of tools to help navigate the change management waters.

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NTEN

MARCH 17, 2011

[As part of the 2011 NTC, a group of attendees are documenting their experiences at the conference on the NTEN Blog.] They are the operations director, website content manager, social media guru, programmer, consultant, analyst, project manager, and many more titles I can't recall.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

NTEN’s mission to support those working to change the world but ensuring they can do so with strategic and racially equitable technology use has never been more relevant than the last couple of years. Rubin Singh, Founder & CEO OneTenth Consulting. We’re thrilled they’ve joined the board!

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NTEN

JUNE 9, 2014

If you register for NTEN’s first-ever Leading Change Summit this September (#14LCS), you’ll be asked to choose one of three tracks— Digital Strategy , The Future of Technology , or Impact Leadership —and you’ll spend quite a bit of time with your track-mates at the Summit. Tracy is a Senior Cloud Consultant at Cloud for Good.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Today is the last day to vote for your favorite NTC 2013 sessions. Join our salon of organizations and consultants grappling with the question: how to get quality insights into your audiences when money is scarce. Have you finished casting your votes yet? Check out our favorite 10 sessions below.

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2014

The Leading Change Summit is just 12 days away. Unlike the NTC, there''s no live stream for this event. We''re packing, preparing, designing, and more just to make sure this first Summit lives up to the NTEN community standards. This required us to start playing with some of the 14LCS thinking toys – we couldn''t resist!

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NTEN

APRIL 21, 2012

The NTC is an event largely attended by Americans (and our gentle neighbors to the North). In addition, even when we have a name badge for you, sometimes you want to change the information. This is probably because we never really made up our minds about how to approach it this year, so we changed course several times.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

In his session at the 2009 NTC , "Cloud Computing: More than just IT Plumbing in the Sky ", Steve and his amazing panel of guests will talk about the implications of cloud computing as a means for learning more about our work, collaborating better, and creating more change. Give us a ring and we'll hook you up!

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

TechSoup will be hosting a pre-conference workshop on Office 365; exhibiting at the NTC Science Fair; speaking at plenary events, breakout sessions, and a "Birds of a Feather" lunch; and facilitating networking opportunities. Office 365 for IT Staff and Consultants Tuesday, March 3, 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 10, 2014

Last year, NTEN Community Champions helped to raise over $36,000 to support the NTEN Community Challenge , which enhanced NTEN''s program accessibility, including sending over 50 people to the 2014 Nonprofit Technology Conference (14NTC) and the 2014 Leading Change Summit (14LCS) with scholarships. Donations are not wasted or misdirected.

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NTEN

APRIL 8, 2014

Points of Light, the organization that established this program in 1974, says "National Volunteer Week is about taking action and encouraging individuals and their respective communities to be at the center of social change – discovering and actively demonstrating their collective power to make a difference.". Weiner Consulting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2009

Photo by Joel Zimmer The annual Day of Service at the NTEN NTC Conference has been a tradition since 2000. In addition to the one-on-one consulting (captured by WeAreMedia Flickr BootCamp folks), a large group of nonprofit techies headed out to install two wireless networks, with equipment provided by Cisco, at the St.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Sometimes these adjustments are an ongoing process, as our lives and preferences change with time. Since then, I became self-employed, and BuJo accompanied me through this change. My weekly spreads change with time, but I love keeping a spot for a weekly quote, inspirational or motivational. BuJo for nonprofit professionals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2007

For the past five years, I've coordinated the NTEN/NTC Day of Service and before that participated as a volunteer. Volunteers had the option to do a strategy consult and stay at the hotel or leave the building and go on-site. I think it might help to do some more vetting for the strategy consults and match the pairs in advance.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 8, 2016

TechSoup will be ALL OVER NTC this year. Here are seven ways you can get connected at NTC. We're especially excited to talk about three great offerings: Consultant Connection. We are thrilled to have so many partners with us at NTC and look forward to introducing you to them in the exhibit hall and throughout the conference!

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 3, 2011

I look forward to the NTEN NTC (Nonprofit Technology Network's conference) every year. This is actually my first time officially speaking at NTC. Numbers-wise, the NTC is no Dreamforce. A significant number of the NTC sessions are focused on strategy and constituent-facing technology applications.

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Tech Soup

MAY 21, 2013

The NTC session Bridging the Funding Gap did just that: brought nonprofits and foundations together to start discussing technology funding barriers and to brainstorm solutions. And that conversations like the one at NTC are crucial to making change. And that conversations like the one at NTC are crucial to making change.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 3, 2011

I look forward to the NTEN NTC (Nonprofit Technology Network's conference) every year. This is actually my first time officially speaking at NTC. Numbers-wise, the NTC is no Dreamforce. A significant number of the NTC sessions are focused on strategy and constituent-facing technology applications.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

Last year, NTEN Community Champions helped to raise over $36,000 to support the NTEN Community Challenge , which enhanced NTEN''s program accessibility, including sending over 50 people to the 2014 Nonprofit Technology Conference (14NTC) and the 2014 Leading Change Summit (14LCS) with scholarships.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 12, 2011

However, a small organization with a small budget can make some pretty big changes. We focused on action and making change for the patient. An example of our early "brand" circa 2005 Like everything else that has gone well in my career, it started with a NTC (Nonprofit Technology Conference). Change is terrifying.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

They fight for climate change and health care reform. The prize will be awarded on March 18th at the Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC). You can also vote “in person&# at the Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) “Science Fair&# later on March 17th. The nonprofit community is filled with heroes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Yesterday, KD Paine and I delivered an NTEN Webinar on measurement based on the ideas in our new book ” Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data to Change the World.” ” They provide free web analytics consulting to non-profits and NGOs around the world by matching analytics professionals, students, and charities.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

Sometimes accidents change your life for the better; working at NTEN, with this amazing community, has changed my life for the best. In my new role, I'll be putting my social listening and community engagement skills to use as a consultant. My work here has challenged and inspired me.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 6, 2010

I have a number of colleagues who I have been seeing almost every year at the NTC for the past decade. This year we have over 100 volunteers to install a wireless network or work with local nonprofits on strategy consults. The remaining techies will work one-on-one with almost 60 local organizations providing strategy consults.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Here’s what the NTEN team said about voting: We received more than 400 ideas this year — a 75% increase over last year — and we need your help to narrow those down to the 100 or so that will make the 2011 NTC the best one yet. Consult the voting FAQ ! I’m not gonna lie: this is not a quick & easy task.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Since I started working on the NTC -- and its predecessor, the RoundUp -- almost a decade ago, my very favorite part has been the Day of Service. It's simple: We work with fabulous local hosts to recruit NTC-area orgs who need some help. Consult Details: Learn how to do a blog. Consult Details: 1. Consult Details: 1.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

And we''re not sure how he does it, but once again, David Krumlof, of The Pierce Family Foundation , was the very first person to register for the NTC. As a thank you for being our first registrant for years in the running, David won a free conference registration for next fall''s Leading Change Summit.

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 12, 2009

Here’s what the NTEN folks have to say: The 2009 NTC will be THE place to engage around the technology issues that face the nonprofit sector. Nearly 1,200 people will come together from across the country and around the world to connect with their peers, learn from their heroes, and change the world. When: April 26-28, 2009.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Tim Sarrantonio, Account Consultant, NeonCRM by Z2 Systems, Inc. Cat Monaghan, Nonprofit Sales Manager, Idealist Consulting. Join our experts and learn about tools that demonstrate the latest innovations that get results first thing Monday morning after NTC. Marc Maxson, Innovation Consultant, GlobalGiving and FeedbackLabs.

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NTEN

APRIL 24, 2009

Alternative Technologies : "The Doctor Is IN": Alternative Technologies will have a Senior Network Consultant at their Science Fair booth, available to answer any technical questions you want to pose. Idealist Consulting : Idealist Consulting will be raffling off an ipod shuffle. MoonFire Corporation : Apple 3g iPhone.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 29, 2007

My goal was to bring them to the Linux geek out at NTC , and have people play with Linux installs on them. Changing one file (/etc/apt/sources.list) and running a few commands, should do the trick. We’ll see… Anyway, if you’ll be at NTC, come by and see where I got to. And, in most situations, it is.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 11, 2007

I realize that we’ve been having this conversation ever since NTC used to be called the "Circuit Rider Roundup." " Its not that there is a lack of technology vendors and support. There are many challenges – how do you teach self-reflection and self-evaluation?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

There are some fabulous sessions proposed for the 2009 NTC , running the whole gamut of nonprofit technology, from planning to Web 2.0, That’s an interesting model, and, if the software is decent, sounds like it could be a good option for some organizations. But, of course, as with anything, look (a lot) before you leap.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 10, 2010

My last session at NTC, That's Not Funny: Using Humor in Online Communications , purported to be fairly lighthearted, but using humor at the wrong time or in the wrong context could be a serious issue for nonprofits. I caught up with her after the session to get more information on how nonprofits can do just that.

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