NTEN

AUGUST 17, 2021

The NTEN team continues to grow! Samara brings a passion for community and problem-solving. I could spend an eternity talking about music I like, so let’s go ahead and cut it off here for now. The post 5 questions for Samara Islam appeared first on NTEN. What was your first job?

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NTEN

MARCH 8, 2013

Forum One Communications. With information overload all the time, and fewer than 24 hours in a day to consume it, users have turned to online communities to play the role of content curation. By Michaela Hackner and Leah Stern, Forum One Communications. And they’re winning out over traditional media sources.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

As the Membership Director at NTEN , and as a speaker at this year’s SXSW Interactive , I hope to be able to connect with all of you that may be coming to Austin for the festival or based in the Austin area. I’ll be joined by NTEN’s Community Manager, Sarah Janczak, too. Connect with NTEN.

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NTEN

MAY 7, 2010

(Note: This is a weekly round-up of NTEN members doing and sharingtheir nptech awesome. How do nonprofits get so awesome at creating web content and building fans and communities online? Well, that's what the Net2 community, an initiative of Techsoup Global , is trying to tackle. Members are in bold. Congratulations!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 12, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology OSS User communities December 12, 2006 One of the things that can make (or break) an open source tool is the community around it. It’s definitely worth a read.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

I think I speak for all of the NTEN staff when I say that it''s the people we work with that really make our jobs rewarding. We then get reminded of how awesome it is that we get to work with such a terrific community. We then get reminded of how awesome it is that we get to work with such a terrific community. Happy listening!

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NTEN

JANUARY 5, 2012

One of our core beliefs here at NTEN is that we are only as strong as our community. The strength of our community is derived from, among other things, its diversity. The icing on the cake is that it's you, the NTEN community, who support each other so well! > Apply for a scholarship to the 2012 NTC.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

Member Appreciation Month is in full swing here at NTEN! Last week was full of webinars free for members, giveaways, community members sharing their #ntenthanks, plus the important question: " Star Trek, or Star Wars? This week''s webinars—all free to NTEN members—include: Tuesday, November 12, 11:00 am PT: Ready, Fire, Aim!

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NTEN

JUNE 12, 2014

NTEN 501 Tech Clubs are informal, local groups that meet regularly in many cities. In honor of our June theme of "Tech Leadership," we asked NTEN''s great Tech Club organizers to help us understand why they answered the call to nonprofit tech leadership in their communities. Why did you start leading your Tech Club? "I

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NTEN

MARCH 31, 2012

Here’s how: On the NTEN Blog We’ll be streamlining coverage of 2012 NTC on the NTEN blog. 12NTCRadio: New to 12NTC, use #12NTC radio to send your music requests and dedications to your favorite nptechies. We’ll show the Twitter stream as we play the music in the Grand Ballroom before plenaries and lunches.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Member Appreciation Month is in full swing here at NTEN! Last week was full of webinars that were free for members, giveaways, community members sharing their #ntenthanks, plus the important question: " Star Trek, or Star Wars? This week''s webinars—all free to NTEN Members—include: Tuesday, November 12, 11:00 am PT: Ready, Fire, Aim!

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NTEN

MARCH 5, 2012

I’m a music fanatic. But there is a shortage of people who understand and harness passion meaningfully and effectively – to build relationships, to grow movements, and to change the world. I – like you – have many passions. I’m a yogi. I’m a non profit marketing geek. I’m a lover of tequila. I’m a fashionista. I’m a dog-o-holic.

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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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NTEN

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

14NTC is just around the corner and the community is buzzing with tips, recommendations, and other advice on making your Washington D.C. NTEN Community Member Jason Shim recommends taking notes, and allocate some post-conference time to follow up on all the resources and topics you learned about to start applying these to your work.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

Luckily, the NTEN Community is full of advice on places to go, things to do, dishes to eat, and how to navigate NTC like a pro. NTEN Education Director, Ash Shepherd recommends connecting with folks you may have heard of or interacted with online, but never met in person. 15NTC community Community nptech NTC nten tips Program'

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NTEN

APRIL 26, 2012

As Holly wrote in the #NTCFail blog post outlining the things that didn’t go as planned at the event, we value being open and accountable at NTEN. NTCwinning 1: The Community Photo by Trav Williams You. The community showed up for the 2012 NTC. Yes, the counter to #NTCfail is #NTCwinning. 1772 to be exact.

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NTEN

JANUARY 13, 2010

That's why you're part of the NTEN community! Ruby Sinreich, longtime NTEN member and all-around fabulous gal, gave me a heads up that the 2010 Digital media and Learning Competition opens up on Friday. My favorite is the mobile musical network. You're an innovative thinker, right? Of course you are!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 27, 2008

So for the next few tools, I’ll be describing CRMs (Constituent/Contact/Community/Customer Relationship Management). It has three versions: Enterprise, Professional, and Community Edition. It also gets kudos from NTEN’s satisfaction survey (it came in third, after CiviCRM and Salesforce.) 2 admin 04.20.08

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Connection Cafe

JULY 13, 2009

It was clear from the webinar that the natural progression of online technology and the best practices has progressed greatly over the past 18-24 months and that the nonprofit community has more opportunity than ever to recruit new supporters, raise more money and empower constituents to take action using social media like online communities.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 30, 2008

and social network guru for the nptech community. David Geilhufe ponders how technology solutions split communities, and issues of a lack of strategic vision. BTW, I thought of you today after reading Nancy’s comments about the online community module for NTEN We Are Media. Beth is, of course, THE web 2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 24, 2008

I want to give huge props to Holly and all of the NTEN crew for putting on a fabulous conference. And, as a member of the NTEN board, I’m really proud of what’s been accomplished. It’s the NTEN community that provides all the magic at the conference. at 12:00 pm Thanks Michelle – and thanks to you!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

Using the internet and social media as a vehicle to tell stories is an approachable, inexpensive, and effective way to engage your audience (Check out NTEN's social media and storytelling web seminars series for the juicy details.) Join every social network, community, directory, and affinity group you can to tell your story.

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NTEN

AUGUST 10, 2010

A community center of sorts, the Center is available for the community to hold trainings and meetings at a low cost for low-income residents of the community. The Center's success depends on organizations using the Center, and on community residents attending and supporting the programs. What have you found? .

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NTEN

AUGUST 17, 2010

All the event organizers ask is that you find a venues the can accomodate the following: "People, hurricanes, New Orleans themed music (i.e. Local organizers mean stronger connections with the community, and potentiallly better results Downsides: These things tend to be uneven. You can attend OR HOLD an event of your own.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 29, 2009

A Free Photos Directory , Free Video Directory and Free Music Directory that offers nonprofits, cause organizations and Web publishers a guide to hundreds of online resources for adding legal, high-quality content to their own Web sites, blogs, podcasts, newsletters, printed materials or online presentations.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Community Organizers Connect — Thursday , March 5, 10:30 a.m. Are you a community manager or builder? Elijah van der Giessen, TechSoup's NetSquared community organizer, will be meeting with fellow community organizers to discuss the challenges and rewards of growing both online and offline communities.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 29, 2010

XKCD has finally updated its Map of Online Communities , showing the size of Facebook relative to its smaller brethren. Chris Milk combines data, music, and images to create a personalized experience for you as part of an interactive Arcade Fire video. Tags: NPTech NTEN Things We Like. "Farmville is so huge! No, really.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2011

In the early days, the nonprofit technology community was a small community of that was generously shared its knowledge and skills. (The The same values hold true today over at NTEN ). .&# It resonated. His comment made me reflect over the past 32 years of working in the nonprofit sector.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 21, 2007

However, take one little step outside of our warm and fuzzy community into the larger technology community, and things change. However, take one little step outside of our warm and fuzzy community into the larger technology community, and things change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

On Tuesday, I had the opportunity to do a Webinar called " Social Media for Trainers: A Bag of Tricks " over at the Engage 365 Online Community site. But what's even better is that this wasn't an isolated training, it was part of an new online community called Engage365 which runs on a platform called " Conference 2.0 ".

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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. Community Engagement Reinvented: Online Fundraising and Engagement Strategies for the Modern Nonprofit Saturday, March 15 10:30AM. Dance the night away to 80''s music by DJ Tea Jay, complimentary food, and drinks.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

MPower has started to generate some community-driven development. I’m excited to see what community-driven development can do! And why is this in “social issues&# and not “technology&# ? But, anyway, I’m not putting the silly badge in the sidebar, sorry. It looks interesting.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 17, 2008

Have an active user and developer community I know I can get my questions answered from the community are good enough so that you can get real work done using the tool (in fact, under most circumstances, you could do mission-critical work with it, if your mission called for it.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 29, 2008

at 7:56 am I have no idea if there is a Kintera User Society, but we at the Blackbaud User Society would be thrilled to have Kintera clients join us to get unofficial support for their products and join our growing community of Blackbaud clients and users. Update: Allan Benamer has some more information that’s worth reading. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

September 19, 2008 Note: This blog entry was originally posted on Idealware’s new community blog. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What are learning platforms? I’m honored and happy to be contributing blog posts there.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

This method is great for its ease of use and immediacy but will not allow you to add any sound effects, music, or cut in other voices and input. As you get comfortable editing content and producing the audio files, you can embellish the podcast with sound effects, music, and additional guests.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

How do you go about finding out whether it’s the right software, and whether the project has a healthy community, since you don’t want to adopt a project that doesn’t? Send queries to nonprofit tech lists for experiences and information, like nosi-discussion , nten-discuss , riders-tech , and others.

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