Candid

JUNE 8, 2021

Nonprofits need 24/7 IT support to stay on top of their game in this ever-changing environment while maintaining an active donor base and engaging volunteers. According to a 2018 NTEN Study , 80 percent of nonprofits lack a policy to address cyberattacks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2009

Photo by Terry Bain in Flickr I've been hearing a lot lately from folks who work in nonprofits asking for examples of "social media or social networking policies." But, if an organization simply cuts and pastes a social media policy without the internal culture change, it won't be effective. Internet Use Policy.

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NTEN

JUNE 3, 2013

But the question stuck with me, and I have an idea that I want to share, appropriately, with the NTEN community. But the question stuck with me, and I have an idea that I want to share, appropriately, with the NTEN community. A month or two ago, a friend of mine asked me a great question: "What is the role of circuit riders today?"

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NTEN

JUNE 24, 2011

World Change, by Glennharper Here at NTEN we talk about the power of technology to change the world every day - in part, by allowing unheard voices, information, and numerical data to speak in new and meaningful ways. This week our members inspire us with change and the technology driving it. Have more news to share?

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NTEN

MAY 21, 2013

Thanks to skills I picked up at NTC, I was able to better survey our community to find service gaps and develop social interventions to improve their health; redevelop our website with the latest usability research in mind, turn our drab social media policy into a "living document", and train staff in best practices.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

We kicked off September by launching the 2014 Leading Change Summit.and we couldn''t have done it without you. All of us all NTEN are amazed (but not too surprised, really) by the degree of engagement at the 14LCS, and by the movement of individual ideas into actionable projects during the Idea Accelerator.

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NTEN

JULY 30, 2010

(Note: This is a weekly round-up of NTEN members doing and sharing their nptech awesome. Tag your own news with " nten membe r" or " nptech " to help us find your awesome online, or contact Annaliese with your updates.). Some of us here at NTEN are pretty interested in geo-tagging. Members are in bold.

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NTEN

MAY 24, 2010

(Note: This is a weekly round-up of NTEN members doing and sharing their nptech awesome. Tag your own news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome online, or contact Annaliese with your updates.) Tags: community buzz nonprofit technology NTEN. Members are in bold. Beth's new blog! (I

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NTEN

MAY 21, 2013

Thanks to skills I picked up at NTC, I was able to better survey our community to find service gaps and develop social interventions to improve their health; redevelop our website with the latest usability research in mind, turn our drab social media policy into a "living document", and train staff in best practices.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2015

This rule change will give more than 18 million low-income Americans $9.25-a-month Amy Sample Ward, NTEN's fearless leader, has a different view. "Closing the digital divide will take more than one year and more than one policy change. is doing more down-to-earth things to close the digital divide.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2008

This week we have been discussing and building Module 3: The Social Media Ready Nonprofit Organization: Dealing with Resistance as part of NTEN's We Are Media : Social Media Starter Kit for Nonprofits project. For today, we're talking about the question - What are appropriate social media policies and how to create them?

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Laura Efurd, ZeroDivide You're busy people -- out there changing the world, one person, one neighborhood, one day at a time. It's understandable that policy isn't the first thing you think about every day. That said, there are real policy issues being debated today that could have a tremendous impact on how you get your work done.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Last year, NTEN Community Champions helped to raise over $36,000 to help support the NTEN Community Challenge , which helped to enhance 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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NTEN

JANUARY 24, 2012

While NTEN can't offer a crystal ball (or insider knowledge, for that matter) about the specifics of the decisions or details about products, we CAN provide a safe, un-biased platform to explore questions, concerns, and possibilities surrounding the transition and the possible impact on the wider nonprofit technology landscape.

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NTEN

MARCH 12, 2013

What is the risk of not adapting to a changing technology culture? NTEN's publication, designed especially for busy nonprofit executive directors, departmental directors, boards, and other leadership staff, is free and hot off the press. How can we be sure that the rewards outweigh the risks?

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NTEN

MAY 1, 2014

They''re free to join and open to everyone regardless of NTEN Membership. So join one or a few and connect, learn, and change! Food : For those who are interested in food issues, such as food access, food policy, food education, and more. New CoPs Agile : For the enthusiastic Agile beginner or the Agile expert.

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NTEN

MARCH 26, 2014

In 2014, we have 58 more sessions under Global Impact and Policy than we had in 2013 under the three categories we used that year as themes for this type of content (Community and Activism, Diversity and Emerging Markets and Government and Civic Engagement),” said Tammy Lynn Gilmore, nonprofit evangelist at SXSW. “For

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NTEN

JUNE 1, 2010

This event is FREE for NTEN members and will be held on Thursday, June 3 at 11:00 am Pacific. The use of social media changes an organization's ability to control information, and we'll discuss how to adapt while ensuring the security of your constituents. . So we're going to make things a little easier, and add some bonus love.

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NTEN

AUGUST 16, 2011

By Jeff Ramos, Community and Content Manager, Games for Change. For the first time, this year's Games for Change Festival created an opportunity for producers of games in development to get live feedback from leading game designers, educators, and funders on the main stage. BOTTOM LINE & FUNDING. MOTHER NATURE. THE BOTTOM LINE.

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NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

NTEN's Amy Sample Ward shares from her experiences at the Games for Change Festival. The good news is that the myth that you can't make systemic change quickly is just that, a myth. 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.

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NTEN

MARCH 1, 2012

Has it been a year already since we launched NTEN's quarterly digital journal for nonprofit leaders? NTEN's publication (which was recently honored with a Publishing Trendsetter Award ) is free and hot off the press. Three Case-Studies that document how three different nonprofits developed their social media policies.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

As many of you know, before joining NTEN as the Membership Director last year, I managed the NetSquared program which included locally-organized groups around the world, innovation challenges, and more. You do, though, change the scale and the opportunity. What is changing and why? Quite the opposite!

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2014

Are you looking to win support for an issue, impact policy, or get a corporation or government body to change its policies? SVP and Director of Digital Strategies. Your concise guide to building a winnable campaign. Follow this roadmap to put successful campaign strategies in place.

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NTEN

APRIL 8, 2013

Most IT pros I talk to today have strong feelings about BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) policies. Some welcome it as a way for their users to get the latest technology without causing a major hit to the IT budget, while others take a very stern NIMBY approach.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

The idea is to create clear, measurable organizational change to participating nonprofits while sharing the learnings and findings with the whole community. Participants are encouraged to use their own organizations as testing grounds, engaging colleagues in the conversations and work related to CoI projects throughout the year.

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NTEN

MARCH 6, 2015

Also announced was the winner of this year''s Antonio Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public Interest , an annual award of a $10,000 cash grant to one individual who has created or led an effort to create an open source software product of significant value to the nonprofit sector and movements for social change.

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NTEN

MAY 2, 2012

Curation at NTEN , Evonne Heyning. Social media policy: cartoon-blogging , Rob Cottingham. Why Fundraisers are Failing at Storytelling -- and What They Need to Change , Lori Jacobwith. My Top Five Takeaways from NTEN's Drupal Day , Melissa Anderson. NTEN 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference , Michael DeLong.

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Care2

APRIL 15, 2013

Biggar, who founded and leads Leadnow , garnered the most votes from the NTEN community, from among a formidable pool of finalists. Under Biggar’s leadership, the 2-year-old organization has already grown to 220,000 members, and has built a record of influencing Canadian politics and legislative change.

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NTEN

APRIL 5, 2013

Social media policy - Make sure the organization has a social media policy in place and that it is a positive, encouraging policy and not punitive. Check out this link for a comprehensive list of social media policies. for " Ctrl. Rebooting Your Digital Community Building."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2011

Here’s a couple I hope you’ll vote for those as well: Turning Online Donors Into Change Investors. Let’s Talk Video for Social Change. Social Media Boundaries: Personal/Personnel Policy. Amy Sample Ward, NTEN. Positively Inspired Change Campaigns. Mark Horvath, Invisible People TV. Devon Smith.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2011

Since December, over 12,000 people have signed an online petition to urge Steve Jobs to change Apple’s unfriendly iPhone donation policy. These recent high profile voices are the latest to join a chorus of dissatisfaction with Apple’s iPhone donation policy. Recently, Google has announced a grant of $1.1-million,

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

Here at NTEN, we're keenly interested in this question. We're all for a change in the way that effectiveness is accounted for. So today we hosted a community community call -- recording and chat transcript here -- to tackle the need for change and what it might mean for our sector. We need a culture change.

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NTEN

APRIL 28, 2010

But all of the sophisticated systems in the world offer little more than a swiss cheese defense if we don't have good organizational policies to address the human side of security. And even that's a little tricky, as policies that are too complex for staff to easily comply with will be subverted in ways that open more security holes.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

Here at NTEN, we're keenly interested in this question. We're all for a change in the way that effectiveness is accounted for. So today we hosted a community community call -- recording and chat transcript here -- to tackle the need for change and what it might mean for our sector. We need a culture change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2019

Finally, we co-authored a policy brief for the Toda Peace Institute on artificial intelligence and its implications for civil society. I know that might seem old fashioned, but being a trainer and facilitator and in the room with social change leaders is what inspires and energizes me.

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NTEN

APRIL 24, 2013

13ntc Change Management Community illustrated notes nptech Organizational Culture Policy Staffing Strategy' Dan Pallotta''s keynote certainly had folks talking – and for a sketchnoter, inspired plenty of visual imagery. Click the image or Check out the full version to expand the notes (PNG, 242.7

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NTEN

OCTOBER 1, 2010

Accountants will perform pro bono services, helping not-for-profits create good fiscal policies and systems. Tags: Change Management Leadership NPTech NTEN. Its volunteer work, right? Lawyers contribute billions of dollars worth of free time each year, at the strong suggestion of the American Bar Association.

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