NTEN

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

One week in and we''ve already had several free-for-Member webinars, prizes, and best of all, lots of #ntenthanks from community members sharing their gratitude for and with one another. My biggest #ntenthanks was getting to kick off the MAM celebrations by hosting the 2014 NTEN Year in Review: Community Impact webinar.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2012

One of the case studies I shared was about NTEN’s recent social fundraiser to raise scholarship money for NTC conference attendance. They set up a c ommunity champions campaign on Razoo and asked their champions to commit to raising $500 each and that the money would be matched by the NTEN board.

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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. hosting companies.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 22, 2011

Last week was the 2011 Nonprofit Technology Conference and not only did I have the pleasure of presenting a couple sessions, it was also my first NTC as a staffer, as I joined NTEN earlier this month. I had a really wonderful time, and the Community-Driven Social Impact session was terrific! What’s the foundation of CDSI?

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

In my recent chapter “Managing Fundraising and Building Communities Online” in the book Internet Management for Nonprofits (Wiley, April 2010), I write in depth about one method to tackle the subject – what are organizations across the country doing? Hosted parties called Red House@Your House. And how do you check results?

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Qgiv

MARCH 30, 2022

Carolyn has been part of the Qgiv extended family since 2019—we proudly partner to help make a difference in our communities. Q: Are there community resources available? NTEN: Nonprofit Technology Network is focused on helping nonprofit staff adopt new technologies in their chosen areas of expertise, and to thrive by doing so.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2008

Over the next six months, I will have the pleasure of working with NTEN and Holly Ross on a new community-driven funded by the Surdna Foundation. The community will help identify and point to the best how-to guides and useful resources that cover all aspects of creating, aggregating, and distributing social media.

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NTEN

JULY 6, 2011

By Arthur Coddington, Director of Online Programs, Craigslist Foundation , Peggy Duvette, Executive Director, WiserEarth and John Kenyon, Educator & Strategist, John Kenyon Consulting. Having a conversation with your community of stakeholders is an essential activity for nonprofits. Two Community Stories. LikeMinded.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

LOLnptech Lot's of member news and activity online this week, so, in the order that I ran across them: NTEN member organization United Nations Foundation was mentioned in a Forbes article discussing ways nonprofits are raising money in tough times. If you're an NTEN member with some news, let me know! One tactic is going online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2010

Book Party in at the Case Foundation: Who Has Their Hands on the Book. We were in Washington, DC on Thursday and Friday for our book tour for The Networked Nonprofit to celebrate with live and virtual events hosted by the Case Foundation and Chronicle of Philanthropy. We also keynoted the Nonprofit 2.0 Conference. Conference.

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NTEN

AUGUST 24, 2012

In honor of the annual migration of children returning to school, NTEN member The Case Foundation is hosting a sweepstakes as part of their Be Fearless campaign. The organization with the most votes by August 31 will also receive a $5,000 grant from the Case Foundation. Congratulations, Solidarity!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 4, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology How not to treat an open source user community October 4, 2007 I’ve been using activeCollab for a few months now. They have had an active user community, many of which, I imagine, are going elsewhere.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Part of my role as the Global Community Development Manager at NetSquared is to support and grow our offline organizers from around the world. We now have over 50 cities globally hosting monthly events with many more getting started. I cannot wait for the experiences ahead for all those chosen to participate in this journey.

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NTEN

MAY 23, 2014

The community voting platform will be open in July. After that, Team NTEN will work closely with this year''s Steering Committee to finalize the content. We also have an Austin Host Committee, an NTENer Center Committee, and an Advocacy Lounge Committee, and we''ll introduce you to them soon. Well, for starters, you can!

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NTEN

APRIL 13, 2012

It was amazing to see so many NTEN members at the NTC last week! This week, it’s even nicer to highlight some of the ways they're using technology, doing good, and educating the community. The good folks of the Information Technology Disaster Resource Center are hosting a 26-stop Disaster Preparedness Roadshow beginning April 23.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Participants will acquire a foundational understanding of this increasingly important component of fundraising strategy and will be able to identify and distinguish between the most common planned giving vehicles. We are excited to host our annual national movement gathering in the Motor City. Planned Giving Primer. Jan 16 - 19.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

One of my main projects this past year, and continuing into 2015 was to serve as the facilitator for a learning network of community foundations who are hosting Giving Days, funded by the Knight Foundation. To be successful as a facilitator in a peer learning isn’t about subject matter expertise, although having that knowledge helps.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

This week, our members are releasing new fundraising tools, hosting workshops, and even awarding grants. Charity Dynamics released statistics that made everyone here at NTEN excited! The CTK Foundation is asking you to nominate a “Hero with a Heart,” and give them a chance to win $5,000 – a simple thanks for the hard work that they do.

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Everyaction

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Participants will acquire a foundational understanding of this increasingly important component of fundraising strategy and will be able to identify and distinguish between the most common planned giving vehicles. We are excited to host our national movement gathering in the Capital. Planned Giving Primer. Planned Giving Primer.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

We're also co-hosting the 2011 Innogive Conference on March 16, the day prior to the NTC. Thanks to a generous grant from the Verizon Foundation, 100 scholarships are now availbale to the Conference focused on Mobile Giving ! How exciting is that? The deadline to apply is Febraury 15, 2011, so apply now!

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APRIL 1, 2013

Any member of the NTEN community is eligible to vote, starting now until the deadline at noon Pacific Time on Wednesday, April 10th. The prize will be awarded on April 13th at the Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) in Minneapolis, during the awards luncheon hosted by our partners at NTEN.

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See3

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

The contest will award a total of $10,000 in grants, funded by the Case Foundation , to the best videos of the year found in the YouTube Nonprofit Program —a special program that YouTube designed to help nonprofits achieve their missions. ? We are thrilled to partner with YouTube for the DoGooder Nonprofit Video Awards.

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

Danielle Brigida, National Wildlife Federation , Peggy Duvette, WiserEarth and Manny Hernandez, Diabetes Hands Foundation. The trick is to balance working with larger networks and some of the more specific networks to create a very useful and strategic approach to community building. How much time do I have to build out this community?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2012

Note from Beth: Facebook Groups can be used to help build communities and for deeper engagement and learning with your audience or peers. My staff and I invited many people in our networks and our professional communities who we felt were “ripe” for the conversation. Thus began “ Darim’s Networked Nonprofit Book Club ”.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Another aspect of YouTube's annotation feature is the community, which enables constituents to add annotations as well, thus furthering the conversation. While YouTube may be the largest, there are many other video hosting sites, including Google Video , Vimeo , and Blip.tv. Post on multiple video sharing sites.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

The contest will award a total of $10,000 in grants, funded by the Case Foundation, to the best videos of the year found in the YouTube Nonprofit Program —a special program that YouTube designed to help nonprofits achieve their missions. Tags: 10NTC NPTech see3 Social Media video Web Sites youtube Communications.

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NTEN

MARCH 4, 2011

Thanks to Verizon Foundation, many nonprofits will be able to attend Innogive’s Mobile Giving Applied. With just two weeks until the event, MobileCause (the co-host of Innogive) has decided to extend this deal to the NTEN community and enable 50 additional nonprofits the chance to attend the conference for just $99.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2010

The Accelerator Summit included interactive sessions show casing their programs in these areas: workforce development , employee giving , environment , online safety , and the role of technology in the non-profit community. We embed the product donation with a connection to the community and capacity building.&#.

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Care2

MARCH 11, 2014

Every year I look forward to one very special conference - the NTC conference organized by the awesome NTEN team. This translates into thousands of organizations with similar names and missions competing for advocacy, donor, and foundation support. million organizations. See the problem?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

I've been involved with teaching and learning technology for nonprofits since 1993 when I worked for the New York Foundation for the Arts' online network for artists, Arts Wire. And, many of our community members were just learning too. . And then immediately create instructional materials and trainings for the community.

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NTEN

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! Another resource roundup comes from Kivi Leroux Miller , who hosted the August edition of the Nonprofit Blog Carnival, themed, ''Getting Along with Others'' in the nonprofit world.

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NTEN

MARCH 11, 2011

The Case Foundation isn't new to video; they've got interviews, reports, and in-the-field footage from industry events and their own grantees. They recently relaunched their video portal and dedicated content, called CaseSoup , reaffirming their commitment to leverage video to report on the things that matter to the community.

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NTEN

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! Another resource roundup comes from Kivi Leroux Miller , who hosted the August edition of the Nonprofit Blog Carnival, themed, ''Getting Along with Others'' in the nonprofit world.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

You will also need to host all the pictures that you use for your landing page somewhere, and only reference their location in your code. Assuming that you have a website for your organization, it will well to host the pictures there. We also offer our Social Media for Building Community class regularly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 1, 2007

One of my clients is NTEN and for the past five years I've been hired to help coordinate the NTC Day of Service on April 4thi n Washington, DC. The Day of Service is a way for conference participants to give something back to the community that hosts the Nonprofit Technology Conference. Click here.

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NTEN

JULY 18, 2013

Buck Foundation – "Once you get accepted, as long as you''re in school, they pay for your entire life. One night I was hosting a party in San Francisco. Calling requires community: Who will support you not just in finding a job, but in finding a calling? NH: So you build a community in the office, in work, and in life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2008

Over the past few months, I have had the pleasure of working with NTEN and Holly Ross on a new community-driven social media and nonprofits curriculum project, funded by the Surdna Foundation. The wiki content is a first draft, there will be also be a community-driven editing process. After a brief pause, the WeAreMedia.

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