NTEN

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

We''re coming into the last week of Member Appreciation Month (MAM) , our month-long celebration of NTEN Members! One will be awarded to an NTEN Member who renews their NTEN Membership before Nov. One will be awarded to an NTEN Member who renews their NTEN Membership before Nov. Register for free as an NTEN Member.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 8, 2014

The Idea Accelerator was designed by LimeRed Studio’s Emily Lonigro Boylan, Owner and Creative Director, and Demetrio Cardona Maguigad, Director of Strategic Design, who teamed up with NTEN to carry out the event. We need collaboration with such organizations as TechSoup, NTEN, ISSA, SANS, State, and Federal Governments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Note from Beth: On December 3rd at 9 am PST, I’m going to celebrate NTEN on GivingTuesday by hosting a chat on my LinkedIn influencer blog. You can make donation to NTEN and help them build and strengthen the field of nonprofit techies. Anyone who gives $150 or more will get a 30 minute phone consultation with me.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2015

Click to Test Your Web Site Now. You can test your web site here and find out if you passed the test and if you flunked it, there is some advice on what and how to fix it. My blog passed the test! He gave these simple, practical action steps – echoed by other web consultants. Test the site.

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NTEN

JULY 8, 2014

Here''s what your fellow NTEN Members have been up to this summer! Idealist Consulting has a new, free Email Service Providers Comparison Report , an in-depth comparison of 13 of the most common platforms. Trying to decide on an email service? Wondering what goes through a Red Cross er''s mind while watching "Game of Thrones"?

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NTEN

APRIL 10, 2014

Software Developer Consultant. Check out the experiment that the team at ThoughtWorks did to test the performance of iBeacons, and learn about its potential applications for nonprofits. Shane Russell. ThoughtWorks. iBeacons are the first mainstream technology to provide indoor location information to phones.

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NTEN

AUGUST 5, 2014

To learn this, test as much as you can in order to get to know your audience well and understand what resonates with them. For example, consider creating a strategy for segmenting your emails and testing, this is a great resource from Kivi Leroux Miller.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

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. Never mind the Olympics; the NTC Geek Games are a true test of your geek strength. Prepare your conference strategy. Continue the party.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2011

You wrote your essay, studied your spelling words, took tests (without looking at anyone else’s answers!). NTEN facilitated a wiki to create workshop curriculum for social media and nonprofits with more than 200 nonprofit technology practitioners as part of the WeAreMedia project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

Last year at this time, I was writing the chapter on ROI in the soon to be published book from NTEN called " Managing Your Mission." Test and tweak. Inquiries for consulting. Helps me prepare for trainings/consulting Program Ideas. Here's a conversion test: Does an acceptable, standard metric exist for the measure?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

I can’t test it, because my Mac that has a Windows virtual machine is packed. But I will say this: that doesn’t matter. I won’t be downloading it, or trying it, even when they release Mac or Linux versions. I am going to have to stop using Chrome. 2 film fan 09.16.08

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NTEN

JUNE 24, 2010

Shabbir Imber Safdar and Shayna Englin, Englin Consulting, LLC. " Read it, see if you can clarify your Facebook marketing funnel, and have fun testing! Shayna launched Englin Consulting, LLC with over a decade of experience identifying and mobilizing supporters for non-profits, causes, and political candidates.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Need to change the way you engage donors or implement A/B testing? These capabilities, combined with the wealth of tools that can be plugged into a workflow, mean that staff can do in an afternoon what used to require and RFP and a paid consultant. Tags: Infrastructure Leadership Newsletter NPTech NTEN. Just do it.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Look at most online and offline forums in our space, even outside of NTEN, and you'll find it's the accidental techie who offers helpful down-to-earth counsel. We're willing to experiment and test new technologies and ideas. Even if we can't personally solve the problem ourselves, we know just what to ask potential consultants.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Need to change the way you engage donors or implement A/B testing? These capabilities, combined with the wealth of tools that can be plugged into a workflow, mean that staff can do in an afternoon what used to require and RFP and a paid consultant. Tags: Infrastructure Leadership Newsletter NPTech NTEN. Just do it.

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NTEN

MARCH 16, 2010

Speaker: Marissa Goldsmith, Beaconfire Consulting. Bunsen Honeydew -- I love experimenting and testing, whether it be for a web site or which tomato seeds work best in my garden. Tags: 10NTC beaconfire consulting Data marissa goldsmith NPTech Web Sites Communications. Analytics integration and interpretation.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 18, 2007

While I appreciate that one can, theoretically (I have yet to test it) easily become a “partner&# with either company – but that doesn’t quite count as open. Open it up, let anyone bang on test data to try things out, and you never know what might happen. I could argue it either way. He’s right.

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Tech Soup

MAY 9, 2016

This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN's Tech Clubs , and HandsOn Tech. Washington, DC: May NTEN Happy Hour: Google Grant + Google Analytics = Better Results, Nonprofit Grant for Free Advertising. Kitchener, Ontario: External Services and Consultants. Friday, May 13, 2016.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 19, 2008

I got a chance to test this out in a more orchestrated way (as opposed to the usual consultant/client interactions) when I facilitated/taught an OpenOffice.org “untraining&# earlier this month at Google HQ in NYC (some more details are on the Google Blog.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 17, 2008

All of the tools I will cover are tools that: I use every week, perhaps less often, and for a few I will have at least installed and tested out. These aren’t half-baked, buggy tools that are not ready for everyday use in organizations. [1]

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NTEN

JULY 11, 2011

Web Consultant and Dan Mouyard, Sr. Many sites implement a CAPTCHA system to filter out spam robots, but quite a few systems use only visual-based tests, which aren’t accessible. Stop spam, not people: It is important that you pick a CAPTCHA provider that offers both visual and auditory tests. By Stuart Holland, Sr.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 30, 2007

I wish I had an excuse to install and test it – but it really requires a purpose for bringing community together. Oh, and my consulting practice has a new logo, done by the fabulous ALR Design ! { And further, there is an amazing integration of Elgg with Mediawiki. I also have been doing some interesting client projects.

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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. Thank you not the last touch.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 1, 2016

This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN's Tech Clubs , and HandsOn Tech. Kitchener, Ontario: External Services and Consultants. Vancouver, British Columbia: Testing Makes Perfect — How to Optimize Your Campaign Through A/B Testing. Monday, June 13, 2016.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 31, 2008

Perhaps if DimDim were also to release a version that integrated with Skype … I can’t figure out from looking around their site whether it is cross-platform enough to share desktops, but I signed up for the beta, so I guess I’ll test it out. I’m hoping to test it out soon, as well.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

This post was in draft because I was starting to devour all the great content on the NTEN Blog , including Marshall's post called " Ten Cool Tools for Working on the Web " and I strongly resisted the urge take Thinkature out for a test drive. A question was asked recently on the NTEN Consultants affinity group.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

We hope that this will spur development for more social applications and mashups as well as better distribution of these applications worldwide. I’ll be watching the Open Handset Alliance, and wondering when I can replace my Blackberry with an open phone. {

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NTEN

JUNE 18, 2009

The AIDS.gov website is a gateway to all Federal domestic HIV testing, prevention, treatment, and research information. One user said, "[I] would love to see more linkages to services like the HIV test site search." Jennie Anderson is is a Consultant at John Snow, Inc. AIDS.gov is a national HIV initiative of the U.S.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 2, 2015

Discovering if Like Equals Love: Understanding and Testing Online Engagement. Unfortunately I won’t make it to all of these sessions because I’ll be providing free expert consulting session s in the Expo ( have you signed up yet? ), but I plan to do my best and get the most out of my first NTEN conference.

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NTEN

JUNE 24, 2010

Marissa Goldsmith, Beaconfire Consulting. I challenge myself to find new and exciting OS/Browser combinations to test. Tags: Data marissa goldsmith Newsletter NPTech NTEN Communications. I love details. I could write a three-page specification for an "Email this page" button. Yes, I do still have Lynx on my computer).

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NTEN

JULY 15, 2011

Don’t be afraid to begin with one or two primary goals, testing to see whether or not your goals are being achieved, then adding more social media integrations that achieve other goals to the site. a strategic social media consulting firm to nonprofit organizations. Categories of Implementation. Prior to founding Community Organizer 2.0,

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2011

We have created most of our games in-house, but we did work with MCM Net on our Super Meat Boy parody, Super Tofu Boy, and we have worked with This Is Pop on the peta2 game Breasts, Not Animal Tests. Since you've worked with agencies, who would you recommend? What would you recommend that others look for when selecting an agency?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 9, 2008

It took me a couple of frustrating hours or so to configure samba (editing the samba.conf file and testing) so that I could share my home directory, with music and video, with my other computers, and share my printer. Needless to say, I did absolutely nothing to get it to work. Plugged it in, and it just worked.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 28, 2009

Thanks to NTEN for sharing live webinars of the NTC sessions for those of us that couldn’t make the actual conference. ” led by Charles Lenchner who currently works for the Working Families Party and consults with Democracyinaction.org and Change.org. Real-life training Job descriptions Testing Management procedures.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

NTEN is offering a Webinar on Google Aps. NTEN posts about screencast about GoogleAps and SalesForce Integration for nonprofits. Beaconfire Consultants has an analysis of nonprofit apps on Facebook. DIA Blog has some great advice about HTML email testing. More buzz here. And don't forget, if you're going to adopt Web2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 2, 2007

Comments will be moderated, but at least you won’t have to sign in (or go through one of those lame character-recognition tests) to post something. Acting on your suggestion, I’ve changed my settings so that readers can post comments without registering.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

In my tests it was buggy (some parts of it just didn’t work), and the interface was still a bit crude. And, boy did I just fail the Richard Stallman test!) We offer special NTEN rates for any memebers out there. Unfortunately, I don’t qualify for those rates. It does, apparently, do audio via VOIP.

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