NTEN

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

We are excited to welcome longtime NTEN Member, Ash Shepherd, to the NTEN team. As the Education Director, Ash will be responsible for overseeing and designing programs for the NTEN Community to help them transform technology into social change. Ash has been a go-to resource for NTEN staff and members for years.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 15, 2011

Delivering our “mini-keynote” for the PMDMC Social Media Intensive is NTEN’s Membership Director, Amy Sample Ward, co-author of Social by Social, a handbook in using social technologies for social impact. Amy has spoken at numerous conferences, including SXSW Interactive. Related Links : Conference information.

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NTEN

APRIL 8, 2014

Today we''re giving a big thank-you to the dedicated members of NTEN''s committees. NTEN committee members are the volunteers who work behind the scenes, contributing their expertise, time, and advice to help shape NTEN programming. The NTC Steering Committee is integral to the success of our annual conference.

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NTEN

JUNE 25, 2014

Andrea Post is NTEN''s newest team member. As Events Manager, Andrea will be working on events such as the Leading Change Summit and Nonprofit Technology Conference. How did you first become involved with the NTEN Community? Doesn’t everyone just know NTEN? nten staff' Andrea Post 1. That’s pretty cool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

The content is important, but it is only half of the instructional design task. Last week, I was an instructor for NTEN’s Technology Leadership Academy for a session on Nonprofit Technology ROI Methods. This post summarizes some learning research and offers some tips for delivering effective webinars.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Check out the latest articles, news, and events from NTEN Members! IMAB is hosting a free virtual conference for nonprofits on February 20. Tickets are on sale now for Create Good , a half-day conference to inspire nonprofit communicators to try new ideas, complete current projects, and find like-minded awesome professionals.

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NTEN

MARCH 3, 2014

NTEN is excited to once again head to SXSW in Austin, TX! NTEN''s Marketing and Publications Director, Joleen Ong (@ joleendearest ) and I (@ penguiasana ) are headed to SXSW for the first time before we head to DC for the 14NTC, and we would love to meet you!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2016

Note from Beth: At this year’s Nonprofit Technology Conference, I was lucky to co-design and facilitate a session on technology training with colleagues John Kenyon, Cindy Leonard and Jeanne Allen. How to Be a Wizard at Tech Training Design and Delivery guest post by Cindy Leonard and Jeanne Allen.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 4, 2012

Topic : Designing Online Engagement to Collaborate with Your Community. Description : You can design online engagement to unleash your evangelists. In this workshop, we’ll focus on all aspects of designing high-value, engaging, and participatory content that creates a partnership with your fans. Date : April 4, 2012.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2022

Year in Review Here’s what I learned from looking over my 2021 professional accomplishments: NTEN Lifetime Achievement Award : I was honored and very surprised to be awarded the NTEN Nonprofit Technology Lifetime Achievement Award. All done remotely from home as I have yet to get back on airplane.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

This week, our members are hosting conferences, requesting session proposals, writing for the Huffington Post, and using video to fundraise! Share your knowledge with the community at the CivicCom Conference ! CiviCom is accepting session proposals through February 15th for their April 2nd conference in San Francisco.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Does crowdsourcing enhance or bring value to face-to-face conferences? Planning for the overall conference agenda, design of specific sessions, or other ways? Here’s a few examples I’ve seen lately. Crowdsourcing the Conference Agenda. Technology Conferences have used crowdsourcing to build the agenda.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2022

Year in Review Here’s what I learned from looking over my 2021 professional accomplishments: NTEN Lifetime Achievement Award : I was honored and very surprised to be awarded the NTEN Nonprofit Technology Lifetime Achievement Award. All done remotely from home as I have yet to get back on airplane.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2020

I’ve continued to do conference keynotes, workshops and facilitate staff retreats about activating a culture of wellbeing. We wrote a paper about Nonprofits and Machine Learning for NTEN and wrapping a research paper for the Gates Foundation on how these new technologies might scale generosity and the challenges.

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NTEN

AUGUST 26, 2021

My design work, on the other hand, is pretty much always a team. You have a master’s in public health, not design. What inspired you to become a designer? I found a way to design everything from agendas to flyers at different jobs early in my career. And as far as yoga, swimming, and spin, yeah, all pretty solo.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

The 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference is coming to TechSoup’s hometown of San Francisco in April and we couldn’t be more excited! Conference sessions cover a range of topics, from social media to software tools for nonprofits, and are tailored to varying levels of expertise. Vote for TechSoup Sessions.

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NTEN

JANUARY 23, 2012

This year’s Nonprofit Technology Conference is fast approaching. While it’s still 10 weeks away, here at the NTEN office, we’re kicking into high gear for conference prep. CiviCon is the annual conference for CiviCRM users and implementers. Innogive Conference. The 3rd annual Innogive conference is back!

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

But this fall, NTEN staff is traveling all over the country to various NPTech events. September 28-29 in London, UK : The Lasa European Not-For Profit Technology Conference will be discussing the topic "Will the Cloud Save the Sector?" One of those session is a panel featuring NTEN's Annaliese. Are you going?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2011

Howard Gardner has dedicated his life work to this Theory of Multiple Intelligences. Yet, many conference panels are designed to accommodate only one or two styles of learning and go shallow instead of going deep. I designed and facilitated one panel, I’ve Found My Free Agent, Now What?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2014

I’m giving away a free registration to NTEN’s Leading Social Change Summit. NTEN is hosting the “ Leading Change Summit ” in San Francisco from September 3-6th. NTEN is hosting the “ Leading Change Summit ” in San Francisco from September 3-6th. I’ll pick a winner by July 3oth.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 4, 2010

When we opened up 11NTC session voting, our followers on Twitter started voicing their concerns about session designers campaigning for positive votes on their sessions. It's really important to NTEN that we're able to bring conference-goers the educational opportunities they want to see. How do we balance it all?

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NTEN

OCTOBER 27, 2014

The momentum continues to build for this year''s Minnesota Council of Nonprofits'' (MCN) annual conference, Nonprofits in Motion: Momentum for a New Minnesota (NPIM14), Nov. Chime into the conference conversation using the event hashtag: #npim14. 6-7 in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Will you be at NPIM14?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Before I take you behind the scenes of our NTEN board fundraiser for Giving Tuesday , let me ask you to consider to a donation of any size to support NTEN and the Nonprofit Technology Conference Scholarship campaign. The NTEN Board Giving Tuesday Campaign. I’m the fourth one from the right. Source: Blackbaud.

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NTEN

MARCH 15, 2014

While we’re grateful to all members of NTEN, there are, of course, those of you who go beyond the proverbial "call of duty" and impact the NTEN community by providing extra time, resources, and wisdom to assist NTEN''s work in this sector. Today, at the 2014 Nonprofit Technology Conference in Washington, D.C., Have all 1.05

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2012

But it is also theme of a panel that I’m moderating at the Innogive Conference on Monday, April 2 that will focus on how this trend is and will continue to impact nonprofits’ communication strategies. She is also the Membership Director at NTEN: The Nonprofit Technology Network. Why should you use it? Best Practices.

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Care2

MAY 8, 2012

There are so many great conferences coming up for the nonprofit community. Ok so technically this is not a conference, but it's going to be a fantastic event for the nonprofit community. With so little free time on your hands, it can be challenging to figure out which ones you must attend in May and June. Check out our top picks below.

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NTEN

JUNE 6, 2023

Using adult learning principles in technology trainings — an NTEN Digital Inclusion Fellow shares a few key lessons about how to (and how not to) train adults. A few closing thoughts This material was originally nested in a break-out session for the 2023 Nonprofit Technology Conference called “Digital Transformation Toolkit.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 6, 2010

This year the Nonprofit Technology Conference turns 10! I have also been involved with the Day of Service , the annual conference event where techies give back to the local community for the past decade, along with my colleague Cheryl Hanback who ran the first one. There's the NTEN member reception at noon.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 28, 2014

We at NTEN are finally working on a website overhaul and re-launch in earnest. In this installment, we take a look at the home page design. We recognize that NTEN''s current home page could use some improvement.and we have heard as much from the NTEN Community. Register for the big NTEN conference?

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NTEN

APRIL 30, 2015

As NTEN's Web Developer, Dan will be diving straight into the deep end during our website redesign process; he will also be focused on the planning, development, configuration, integration, and testing of new and existing web-based systems. How did you first become involved with the NTEN Community? Describe yourself in three words.

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NTEN

JULY 15, 2011

and Seth Giammanco, Principal, Minds On Design Lab. Please join us online on September 13th, 10am Pacific for our NTEN Webinar, The Social Website: Integrating Social Media into Website Design and Function to look at additional examples of sites getting social. Debra Askanase, Founder, Community Organizer 2.0

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

In 2009, we started the NTC Ignite tradition at our annual conference. Well, NTEN has a similar opportunity for you nonprofit technology experts out there – one that doesn't involve microphones or travel expenses: > Contribute a "DIY Nonprofit Technology" article for NTEN's online journal for nonprofit leaders.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 15, 2011

Recently, I've been thinking about the launch of NTEN's newest resource: NTEN:Change, A Quarterly Journal for Nonprofit Leaders. We understand that executive directors may not have the time to attend webinars or conferences about technology. After picking the platform, we tackled the design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

The NTEN Book Club, organized by Lauren McKown and Kai Williams, hosted a video chat this week.This month they have been reading The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout and discussing it in the NTEN online community. Workplace Productivity and Well Being .

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NTEN

MARCH 26, 2012

The 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference Sells Out! For the third year running, the nonprofit sector has shown how it values technology and its ability to help us change the world by buying up every available seat at the Nonprofit Technology Conference. Read all about it! Yep, it's official, the 2012 NTC has sold out.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

As a trainer and facilitator who works with nonprofit organizations and staffers, you have to be obsessed with learning theory to design and deliver effective instruction, have productive meetings, or embark on your own self-directed learning path. I often incorporate sticky notes and often have to rearrange the furniture.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

NTEN is proud to announce a mutual scholarship program in partnership with Connecting Up to share nonprofit technology knowledge across the Pacific. Two lucky NTEN Members will be chosen to attend the Connecting Up Conference (CU11) in Melbourne, Australia on June 1-3, 2011 on a full scholarship! How amazing is that?

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