Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2011

I’m in Washington, DC for the Nonprofit Technology Conference hosted by NTEN. After facilitating a panel at the Innogive Conference on integrating mobile into multi-channel nonprofit campaigns , I headed to a special event hosted by Google to celebrate the launch of Google for Nonprofits. Details are here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

I’m thrilled to be doing a session with Aisha Moore and Gina Schmeling at the NTEN NTC called “ Technology Wellness in the Nonprofit Workplace.” ” If you are attending the NTC, please join us. When does technology boost personal productivity for nonprofit professionals and when does it get in the way?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 2, 2013

The 2013 Nonprofit Technology Conference takes place in Minneapolis next week. It is the largest gathering of people who work in the nonprofit sector and technology. Registration is still available, but you can’t make it register for the online NTC and catch a few sessions. April 13, 2013 – 8:30-10:00.

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Tech Soup

MAY 21, 2013

Wouldn't it be great if nonprofits, charities, and foundations had a frank discussion about how to improve the technology funding process? The NTC session Bridging the Funding Gap did just that: brought nonprofits and foundations together to start discussing technology funding barriers and to brainstorm solutions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2017

My role in the project is to the facilitate the training sessions, design the overall training, facilitate openers and closings, help prep the curriculum, and deliver modules on digital strategy and social media. Working with Wake is also a wonderful professional development experience to hone training and facilitation trade craft.

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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. Cindy and Jeanne wrote this great reflection of what we learned and how we facilitated this very interactive session.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 3, 2011

I look forward to the NTEN NTC (Nonprofit Technology Network's conference) every year. This is actually my first time officially speaking at NTC. Numbers-wise, the NTC is no Dreamforce. A significant number of the NTC sessions are focused on strategy and constituent-facing technology applications. I love it.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

From a Tech Club organizer, to NTEN Lab facilitator, to NTC speaker, to Editorial Committee member, he has demonstrated his commitment for nearly a decade. I am constantly driven to see the world become a better place with a knack for making connections as I speak both fluent nonprofit and technology.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 3, 2011

I look forward to the NTEN NTC (Nonprofit Technology Network's conference) every year. This is actually my first time officially speaking at NTC. Numbers-wise, the NTC is no Dreamforce. A significant number of the NTC sessions are focused on strategy and constituent-facing technology applications. I love it.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

We’re one month out from NTEN’s annual Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) in Washington, DC. The official hashtag, #14NTC , is starting to buzz on Twitter, and I’m getting hyped about connecting with nonprofit leaders from around the globe! This was a gathering of people at the forefront of nonprofit technology.

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Care2

MARCH 28, 2011

I usually come away from the NTC with one theme that is connected to multiple sessions. The conversation touched on how letting yourself be vulnerable to share your own story can give people in your community permission and courage to share their own important stories. Over to You. How do you face this challenge?

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NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2013

Amy saw that members of the nonprofit tech community were itching to dive more deeply and regularly into topics of online community building, but she didn’t want to create a space if there weren’t willing co-facilitators and a good deal of buy-in. Whoever’s hosting facilitates the discussion using the @CommBuild account.

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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. Then there is the fantastic sessions discussing the best tools nonprofits should use to build websites and online campaigns focused on engagement and raising lots of money. 14NTC Sessions. million organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Yesterday, KD Paine and I delivered an NTEN Webinar on measurement based on the ideas in our new book ” Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data to Change the World.” ” I hear this too often from nonprofits. ” I hear this too often from nonprofits. The skills are out there.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

I feel that my technology training for nonprofits work is more like a calling for me than simply a job or career. For the past 15 years, I have been excited about nonprofit technology training design and delivery and it is what I will continue to focus on as part of my role at Zoetica over the coming years.

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NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2013

Amy saw that members of the nonprofit tech community were itching to dive more deeply and regularly into topics of online community building, but she didn’t want to create a space if there weren’t willing co-facilitators and a good deal of buy-in. Whoever’s hosting facilitates the discussion using the @CommBuild account.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Allen Benamer of the Nonprofit Tech Blog says " Support Idealware !" " Rolf Kleef has looked over the list to identify " facilitator projects " that give people the tools to improve their own situation in their own way. The NTEN's NTC and NPTech Pipe. More pointers to NTC posts here.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Should all nonprofits have a blog? Below are eight benefits of having a nonprofit blog. If you've worked for a nonprofit, you know how painfully long it can take to put together a newsletter. Use a service like Feedblitz or Feedburner Email to facilitate readers' subscribing by email. blog nonprofit net2 nptech.

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NTEN

MARCH 20, 2015

After wrapping up our annual Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC), NTEN’s CEO, Amy Sample Ward, and I quickly recharged for SXSW Interactive , where we partnered another year with Beaconfire to host the Beacon Lounge for social changemakers, and with the NonProfit Times to cover stories on the nonprofit technology sector.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 9, 2012

Laura Quinn shared her ideas at the 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference , in a session called More Than Apps: Affordable Program Delivery Through Mobile Phones. Having Conversations with Constituents. Quinn also discussed how mobile technologies can help you have conversations with your constituents in interesting ways.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

Submitted by Britt Bravo, publisher of Have Fun • Do Good Should all nonprofits have a blog? Below are eight benefits of having a nonprofit blog. If you've worked for a nonprofit, you know how painfully long it can take to put together a newsletter. Blogs facilitate conversations with supporters and potential supporters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2010

Through its network of 32 partners (and growing), they have been able to reach and work with over 100,000 nonprofits on every continent of the world. They encourage volunteerism by giving a cash donation of $17/hr to the nonprofit for every hour they volunteer and of course, matching donations up to $12,000 per employee.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2011

Holly Ross) Numbers : The nonprofit sector runs on 300B in annual giving, and of that 5-7% (20B) is given online, mostly through the donation pages on your website. There are many companies and nonprofits out there trying to solve this problem. You decide which nonprofit, how much you're willing to pledge per month, and HelpAttack!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2005

I'm trying to get some links assembled in one place for the Berkman Thursday evening bloggers meetings where we will discuss nonprofit blogging. What does the nonprofit blogosphere look like? There is no official organized nonprofit blog census, npo blogroll or a bridge blog like Global s. Omidyar Thread on Nonprofit Blogging.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 10, 2012

Social media can be a useful (though often overlooked) tool for frontline workers in social service agencies to engage with youth, according to Jason Shim, a Program Facilitator at the Canadian nonprofit, Mosaic Counselling & Family Services. Fear of failure (or actual failure) shouldn't stop nonprofits from experimenting.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 13, 2011

The SXSW Interactive Festival is a close second to NTC for the energy and meaning for those of us who believe that technology is a means to make the world a better place. There have been plenty of other interesting conversations and presentations, but I’ll leave this year thinking about these two things. True, they are all there.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2009

Laura Norvig gave me a sneak peak at her ingite presentation for NTC Ignite called the Many Uses of FriendFeed. It is also good for conversation around resources or crowdsourcing research. About a year ago, a group of nonprofit technology social media early adopters ran a couple of experiments using FriendFeed and an NpTech room.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Whether your nonprofit organization provides services or advocates for a cause, your stakeholders have common interests. The nonprofit technology community is a robust knowledge sharing network widely dispersed across many blogs, tweets, discussion boards, Facebook walls, etc. Now go forth and facilitate knowledge sharing!

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 29, 2010

It’s that time again: time to meet up at the Nonprofit Technology Conference! Who : Facilitating: Amy Sample Ward | NetSquared; Billy Bicket | NetSquared. The NetSquared team will be working the room to activate and facilitate conversations so everyone can enjoy the ride. Science Fair: The NTC Exhibit Hall.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2008

NpTech Conversations Wild Apricot Blog is hosting next week's Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants on the topic "How are non-profits using Web 2.0 If you can't wait, read Alexandra Samuel's " Best Practices for Social Networking Nonprofits ," a guest post on Katya Andresen's Nonprofit Marketing Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2007

Penguin Day is a day-long workshop for nonprofit organizations to explore the range of issues and options inovlved in using Free and Open Source Software. happen in different locations several times a year and for the past three years, these meetings have taken place after the annual NTC: Nonprofit Technology Conference.

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Allegiance Group

DECEMBER 19, 2023

We’ve put together a list of the top nonprofit conferences to attend. These are the nonprofit conferences you don’t want to miss in 2024. Speakers include industry leaders like university presidents, nonprofit consulting firms, and advancement leaders. And as you can see, there’s no shortage of inspiring events.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

There are many things in my life and work that I need to streamline, and an important skill to facilitate this is learn how to say no. Usability is a Conversation. That's why I maintain a large and varied RSS reading list of folks from within and outside of the nonprofit area. Stated another way, organize and simplify.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2009

Danielle Brigida, NWF Social Media Outreach Coordinator ( @starfocus on Twitter) Note from Beth: In the coming weeks, we're peeking over the shoulder of nonprofit social media practitioners to learn about their work flow and techniques. For nonprofits, that means moving from the transactional to the constant relationships.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

In the past year, thousands of nonprofit pros took advantage of our definitive Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar, and we're so excited to share our brand new 2016 list! Nonprofit technology, and more! 2015 - 2016 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar. Nonprofit Leadership Alliance / Houston, TX / $250. Fundraising.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology NTC Summary, and Nonprofit Technology Consulting 2.0 I was looking for the big conversation – why are we doing this anyway? Is it all just TCO arguments?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

This year's program is heavily weighted to the "social web" and nonprofits. Doug mentioned attending the NTC/NTEN conference in New Orleans and had RSS and Tagging ringing in his ears. He summarized some learnings from NTC sessions he attended and the keynote by David Pogue. Nonprofits lag behind the corporate sector.

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